Author: Michael Wise

###### MIT CXC Documents

CONTENTS:

ACIS

ACIS L0 data products ICD
ACIS L1 data products ICD
ACIS Analysis Reference Data ICD
CXC processing tools for ACIS
CXC implementation of ACIS event grading schemes

HETG
PSF
ARD
ISIS
Exposure Map
Misc.

###### Subject: ACIS

| 11/05/99 | ACIS Level 0 to Archive Interface Control Document A detailed description of the ACIS Level 0 (telemetry decommutation) data products. Download postscript (123 K) of DRAFT of Rev 3.1 (11/05/99) Download postscript (122 K) or Framemaker source of DRAFT of Rev 3.0 (08/18/99) Download postscript (115 K) of Rev 2.11 (06/08/99) Download postscript (107 K) or Framemaker source of Rev 2.10 (04/05/99) Download older revisions of the ICD

| 01/26/00 | ACIS Level 1 to Archive Interface Control Document A detailed description of the ACIS Level 1 data products. Download postscript (59 K) of DRAFT of Rev 2.1 (01/26/00) Download postscript (57 K) of DRAFT of Rev 2.0 (11/05/99) Download postscript (56 K) or Framemaker source of Rev 1.10 (08/05/99) Download postscript (55 K) or Framemaker source of Rev 1.9 (04/07/99) Download older revisions of the ICD

| 11/30/99 | ACIS Analysis Reference Data Interface Control Document A description of the formats of the Analysis Reference Data files used by the ACIS L1 pipelines and tools. Download postscript (113K) of DRAFT of Rev 2.1 (02/24/00) Download postscript (119K) of DRAFT of Rev 2.0 (11/30/99) Download postscript (525K) or LaTeX source of Rev 1.3 (03/12/99)

| 11/01/99 | CXC Data Processing Tools for ACIS A description of the ACIS data processing tools under design or construction at the CXC. Download postscript (89 K) of Rev 2.0 (11/01/99)

| 04/02/99 | CXC implementation of ACIS event grading schemes A summary of the existing and proposed systems for assigning grades to ACIS events and a description of the plan to implement these systems. Download postscript (280 K)

###### Subject: HETG and LETG

| 03/27/99 | Transmission Grating L1.5 to Archive Interface Control Document A detailed description of Grating L1.5 (event diffraction coordinates) data products. Download Postscript LaTeX source Change-Orders. Previous version: Download Postscript LaTeX source

| 05/28/99 | Transmission Grating Level 2 to Archive Interface Control Document A description of Grating Level 2 data products (binned spectrum). Download Postscript LaTeX source Change-Orders. Previous version: Download Postscript LaTeX source

| 06/04/99 | Grating Tool Specifications: Level 1.5 LETG/HESF Region Mask Definitions and Wavelength Determination Download Postscript (25 pages); Download LaTeX source.

| 07/20/98 | Grating Tool Specifications: Level 1.5: ACIS Continuous-Clocking Mode Processing Download Postscript (7 pages); Download LaTeX source.

###### Subject: PSF

| 03/03/98 | PSF TOOL Inputs The inputs for the various PSF tools is outlined here. View Text ..... (81 K)

| 02/05/99 | ICD for the GRATING PSF LIBRARY A detailed description of the PSF Library files. download postscript ..... (31 K) download Latex Source ..... (2.5 K)

| 10/07/98 | PSF TOOL ICD The PSF tool ICD. download postscript ..... (56 K) download Latex Source ..... (3 K)

| 02/24/00 | LSF LIBRARY and TOOLS TECHNICAL REFERENCE The LSF Library and Tools Technical Reference. download postscript ..... (588 K) HTML .....

###### Subject: Analysis Reference Data

| 3/26/99 | Exposure Maps and Gratings Data Level 1.5 and 2.0 Analysis Reference Data ICD Interface Control Document describing the reference data read by exposure map and gratings pipelines and tools. Download postscript (about 68 pages, 0.8-1.6 MB) or LaTeX source or LaTeX template for new files. Change-Orders.

| 04/21/98 | Spectroscopy Database: Analysis Reference Data ICD The format of the Spectroscopy Database files to be used in L2 spectral analysis is described here. Download postscript .... (511K) Download LaTeX source .... (40K ARD_template)

###### Subject: ISIS

| 1/8/99 | ISIS: Interactive Spectral Interpretation System Describes the functions we wish to include in the analysis system for high resolution X-ray spectra (currently under development). Download Postscript ..... (392 K)

###### Subject: Exposure Map

| 2/09/99 | Exposure Map Data Products ICD Download postscript or LaTeX source
|  | 2/08/99 | Aspect Histogram Processing and Data Products ICD Download postscript or LaTeX source (About 14 pages/1 MB de-compressed)

###### Subject: Miscellaneous

| 04/02/97 | AXAF Transmission Grating Diffraction Coordinates Describes the transformation from reported event positions to dispersion coordinates. Download Postscript ..... (101 K)

| 04/02/97 | Grating Response Matrices for XSPEC...and Beyond Defines the spatial and pulse-height redistribution of the grating spectrometers and their relationship to XSPEC response matrices. Download Postscript ..... (81 K)

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