RXTE PCA: Improvements to the PCA Response Matrix (version 11.7)
The calibration for PCUs 0 and 1 is slightly worse than for PCUs 2-4. However the data for PCUs 0-1 is usable for scientific ... However, several calibration values used by PCARMF are stored in the task parameter file. HEASOFT keeps a system copy of this ... The PCA calibration is not accurate for Standard2 channels 1-3, so the PCA team recommends to use the XSPEC command ... download version 090817 of the RXTE PCA Calibration database (CALDB), or use "Remote CALDB"; the new energy to channel file is ...
OGIP
2 THE CALIBRATION DATAFLOW. 3 CALIBRATION FILE TYPES. 4 CALIBRATION UPDATES. 5 CALIBRATION DATABASE STRUCTURE & SUBROUTINE ... 3 CALIBRATION FILE TYPES. The Basic Calibration Files will ideally contain all the data (excluding any necessary housekeeping ... 4 CALIBRATION UPDATES. The CALDB will be updated whenever necessary, for example to update calibration data which explicitly ... The HEASARC Calibration Database (CALDB) serves as an archive for calibration data needed to fully interpret observation data ...
HEADAS help file
Telescope definition calibration file or CALDB.. alignfile [filename]. Alignment file or CALDB.. ra [real]. Nominal R.A. ( ...
OGIP Calibration Memo CAL/GEN/92-022
OGIP Calibration Memo CAL/GEN/92-008. f George, I.M., Zellar, R.S. & White, N.E., 1992. OGIP Calibration Memo CAL/GEN/92-013. f ... OGIP Calibration Memo CAL/GEN/92-003. f George, I.M. & Arnaud, K.A., 1993. OGIP Calibration Memo CAL/GEN/92-002a. (addendum to ... Calibration Index Files. CAL/GEN/92-008 (George, Pence & Zellar). * Mandatory FITS Keywords for Calibration Files. CAL/GEN/92- ... 1.5 Relationships to Other Calibration Datasets. Downstream s/w should assume further calibration input is required for an ...
OGIP
2 Length Limits on Calibration File Metadata. The limits on Calibration file metadata are given in table 1. Calibration file ... The HEASARC Calibration Database (CALDB) uses file metadata in order to identify files in the calibration archive uniquely. ... Similarly the calibration data retrieval software converts user input into upper case before comparing to the calibration index ... Metadata values can be entered either as lower or upper case in a calibration index file, but the calibration data retrieval ...
HEASARC: XMM-Newton Data Analysis
Many SAS tasks require calibration information from the Calibration Access Layer (CAL). Relevant files are accessed from the ... summary file with data extracted from the instrument housekeeping data files and the calibration database. It is only necessary ... set of Current Calibration File (CCF) data using a CCF Index File (CIF). To set the environment parameter and make the ccf.cif ...
HEASARC: XMM-Newton Data Analysis
Many SAS tasks require calibration information from the Calibration Access Layer (CAL). Relevant files are accessed from the ... summary file with data extracted from the instrument housekeeping data files and the calibration database. It is only necessary ... set of Current Calibration File (CCF) data using a CCF Index File (CIF). To set the environment parameter and make the ccf.cif ...
RXTE PCA: Improvements to the PCA Effective Area (HEASoft 6.11)
Recently the PCA team noted a discrepancy in the way that the PCA collimator response was being applied during calibration ... Users should be aware that the absolute flux calibration of the PCA instrument (in fact all instruments!) is a difficult ... The RXTE PCA team continues to improve the calibration of the instrumental response. When performing spectral analysis, users ... Typically, special software must be used during calibration analysis because multiple parameters must be varied, and different ...
TESS data processing pipeline - TESS Science Support Center
The SPOC uses instrument calibration models provided by the POC to calibrate all science data. Once a full sector is calibrated ... for calibration) to the Science Processing Operations Center (SPOC) at NASA Ames. ...
BATSEGRB - CGRO/BATSE Gamma-Ray Burst Catalog
... may be revised through improved analyses and instrumental calibration. The final catalog will be posted here as soon as it is ...
10. An RGS Data Processing and Analysis Primer (Command Line)
If this falls on an extraction region, the current energy calibration will require a wavelength-dependent zero-offset. Stray ...
ACTSZCLUST - Atacama Cosmology Telescope DR5 Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Cluster Catalog
The cluster mass, mass_500s, rescaled using the richness-based weak-lensing mass calibration factor of 0.71 +/- 0.07 (see ... mass calibration factor of 0.71 +/- 0.07 (see Section 4.1 in the reference paper). Mass_500c_Cal_Neg_Err. The 1-sigma lower ... mass calibration factor of 0.71 +/- 0.07 (see Section 4.1 in the reference paper). Mass_200m. The cluster mass that encloses an ...
Compton neutral reflection with self-consistent Fe and Ni lines
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Strangeon star atmosphere model.
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How Much X-ray and Gamma-ray Data Are Coming In and Going Out of the HEASARC's Archive?
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Introduction
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HEASARC Data Archive
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SUZAKU XRT Calibration Files: 20080602
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HEASARC's Relevance to NASA's Strategic Plan
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SWIFT SC Calibration Files: 20160908
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The Amazing Year 2017 in High-Energy Astrophysics
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