XMM-Newton CCF Release Note XMM-CCF-REL-183 EPIC-pn spectral response R. D. Saxton 11 November 2004 1 CCF components Name of CCF VALDATE Blocks changed XSCS ag EPN QUANTUMEF 0015.CCF 2000-01-01 FRACTION CHANNEL, FRACTION ENERGY QE TOTAL, EBINS FRACTION NO EPN REDIST 0009.CCF 2000-01-01 NOISE PARAMS, PARTEVENT PARAMS THRESH LOSS NO 2 Changes Recent calibration work has shown that the Epic-pn redistribution function is in practice narrower than that represented in the current matrices. ...

Monte Carlo Methods for Including Calibration Uncertainties in Model Fitting Analyses Jeremy J. Drakea , Peter Ratzlaffa , Vinay Kashyapa , Richard Edgara , Rima Izemb , Diab Jeriusa , Herman ... University, Cambridge, MA 02138 MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, Cambridge, MA 02139 b c SUMMARY · Instrument response uncertainties almost universally ignored in astrophysical X-ray ... Limiting accuracy of Chandra ACIS reached in spectra with 10 4 counts. ...

... There are compelling reasons for the pulsar community to utilise a standard data storage format. For example, standardisation of file formats significantly decreases the amount of effort required to integrate new instruments into the analysis chain. ... Accordingly, we have defined PSRFITS as a standard FITS-based format for pulsar data files. ... For example, the first line of Processing History HDU contains information about the data acquisition program and the initial structure of the file. ...

... Example of an Association Table . ... CCD commands . ... ROMAFOT Command List . ... Commands of the context LONG . ... Command parameters (1) . ... Checklist of necessary table files . ... Observation Summary Table with file classifications appended in column :EXPTYPE and :OPATH as defined and applied in Table . ... Columns for star-catalog table files . ... Passband columns of the instrument table file . ... Detector columns of the instrument table file . ... Columns of the gain-table file . ...

... A response matrix is a discrete representation of a given instrument's response to incoming photons. ... This presentation is a preliminary report on MKRMF, a new tool developed by the Chandra X-ray Science Center (CXC), to calculate RMFs appropriate for the variety of science instruments on-board Chandra (Wise 1998). ... These external redistribution functions are stored using a new FITS format developed by the CXC for encapsulating functions. ... axes file : . ... list file : . ... CXC RMF Format ...

... The instrument modes and arms should be indicated and described, and the keywords that distinguish between different modes should be indicated (usually INS.MODE is used if it is a mode and OCS keys are used in case it is related to an arm). ... Raw frames The format of the raw frames for each mode and arm should be described. ... The design should be checked on pre-processing or processing, which involves products only (no trigger via raw frames). ... QC parameters. ...

COS Instrument Handbook for Cycle 24 . ... exposure time . ... overhead times . ... airglow - see background rates . ... apertures 1 , 2 . ... BOA - see apertures, BOA . ... calibration accuracies . calibration observations . ... Cycle 17 calibration observations 1 , 2 . ... detector non-linear effects - see dead time . ... Exposure Time Calculator - see ETC . ... FCA - see apertures, FCA . ... grating parameters . ... PSA - see apertures, PSA . ... spectroscopic modes - see grating parameters . ...

. This Directory contains Model of distribution of density, temperature and effective collision freguency of electrons. Yu.K.Chasovitin. 1998. This Directory contains The program RIM98 for calculating the parameters of the ionosphere to use the "Reference Ionospheric Model-98" (RIM-98).Yu.K.Chasovitin. 1998.

... In brief: the frequency-dependent radiative transfer equation is solved for a dust under assumption of spherically-symmetric geometry for its distribution taking into account particle size distribution and quantum heating effects for the very small dust particles. ... Table: Model parameters for IRAS04296+3429. ... parameter . ... hot dust shell) . ... The best fit to the spectral energy distribution of IRAS04296 is shown by heavy solid line (see Table2 for details concerning parameters of the model...

Programs to generate color spectra ================================== These programs were developed to produce realistic color spectra from digital data. ... The distribution here contains the original source code for colorspec and solar in C, and a version of solar written in Fortran. ... It will produce a color spectrum of any digital spectrum. ... The 800x50 image solarflux.ppm was generated by colorspec and the file fluxatlas.dat, a reformatted NSO Solar Flux Atlas in the data directory. ...