A detailed description of the ACIS Level 0 (telemetry decommutation) data products.

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A detailed description of the ACIS Level 1 data products.

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A description of the formats of the Analysis Reference Data files used by the ACIS L1 pipelines and tools.

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A description of the ACIS data processing tools.

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A summary of the existing and proposed systems for assigning grades to ACIS events and a description of the plan to implement these systems.

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Caveats about ACIS Pipeline-Processed Event Data

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A description of how to compute the minimum and maximum allowed values of CHIPX, CHIPY, and PHA for an observation.

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A description of how to compute the values of QUERY_VAL associated with the values of the 12-bit digital readout integers in the column QUERY_VAL_TU in Level 0 ACIS housekeeping files.

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A description of how the times of arrival and sky coordinates of continuous-clocking mode events are computed.

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A detailed description of Grating L1.5 (event diffraction coordinates) data products.

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A description of Grating Level 2 data products (binned spectrum).

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A detailed description of the LSF Library files.  

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The PSF tool ICD.  

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Interface Control Document describing the reference data read by exposure map and gratings pipelines and tools.

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The format of the Spectroscopy Database files to be used in L2 spectral analysis is described here.

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