Summary release note for ppsprod-17.40
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Pipeline Version: 17.40_20181123_1545
Pipeline name: ppsprod
Release Date: 2018-11-23
SAS Manifest: xmmsas_20181121_1450



Summary
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This new version of the pipeline is based on the SAS17.0 public
release with some minor modifications. The main changes in the 
products with respect to previous version are

-) EPIC Light Curves are produced per energy band for all
   exposures. A new FITS file is available under the PPS products per
   EPIC instrument and observation which contains Light Curves for all
   the available exposures in the energy bands 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and
   8. For TIMING mode information is given in the energy bands 2, 3, 4
   and 9. 

-) The time bin size for PN Light Curves has been fixed to 20 times
   the frametime of the corresponding exposure mode. For MOS1/2 the
   method to fix the time bin size according the mean count rate has
   not been modified.

-) A new file with the spacecraft orbit information is now also
   included under the PPS products. The file contains an extension
   ORBIT with orbital information during the observation. The
   extension contains spacecraft position and velocity in Geocentric
   Equatorial J2000 coordinates , as well as the position in
   Geocentric Solar Ecliptic coordinates,
          
-) Three color image graphics are now corrected by instrumental
   background (Filter Wheel Close (FWC)) and Out of Time (OoT)
   events. The FITS file contains the net data as primary image and
   the raw image and the estimates for the FWC and OOT as extensions.

-) As a result of the changes in SAS 17.0, PN imaging calibrated event
   FITS files contain new extensions with the number of discared
   lines, used to correct the events energy. For Small Window mode
   this information is not available although the extension is still
   present for CCD#4 and filled with empty values.


The version of SAS being used is a pipeline-specific manifest
xmmsas_20181121_1450. This is based on the public SAS release 17.0.0,
described at
http://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/sas-release-notes-1700



Documentation
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Documentation for this pipeline can be found at:

http://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/pipeline

and links therein.