MIT CXC Documents

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Subject: ACIS
11/17/06
      
    acis_build_badpix Spec 

    This document describes a specification for the ACIS tool acis_build_badpix.

    Download postscript (74 K) or LaTeX source (8 K) of Rev. 1.0 (11/17/06)

 
11/08/04
      
    acis_build_chip_gti Spec 

    This document describes a specification for the ACIS tool acis_build_chip_gti.

    Download postscript (102 K) or LaTeX source (8 K) of DRAFT Rev. 1.1 (11/08/04)

 
08/11/04
 
06/16/06
 
05/11/06
 
10/01/02
      
    acisreadcorr Spec 

    This document describes a specification for the computation of TIME for the ACIS tool acisreadcorr.

    Download postscript (51 K) or LaTeX source (5 K) of Rev. 1.3b (10/01/02)

 
03/15/00
      
    ACIS Analysis Reference Data Interface Control Document 

    This document describes the formats of the Analysis Reference Data files used by the ACIS tools.

    Download postscript (113 K) of Rev 2.1 (03/15/00)

    Download postscript (119 K) of Rev 2.0 (11/30/99)

    Download postscript (525 K) or LaTeX source of Rev 1.3 (03/12/99)

 
09/05/06
      
    Bias header keywords 

    This spec describes how to determine the values of some of the keywords in the header of an ACIS bias file.

    Download postscript (61 K) or LateX source (2 K) of Rev. 1.0 (09/05/06)

 
05/03/05
      
    Continuous-clocking mode bias summary 

    This file includes information from each of the 831 continuous-clocking mode bias files obtained from the CXC archive on March 1, 2005.

    Download FITS (416 K) summary through March 1, 2005 (05/03/05)

 
09/22/06
 
08/14/06
 
01/08/07
 
09/09/02
      
    Computation of ONTIME, DTCOR, and EXPOSURE 

    This document describes how to compute TIMEDEL, FLSHTIME, ONTIME, DTCOR, and EXPOSURE for ACIS event data.

    Download postscript (66 K) or LaTeX source (11 K) of Rev. 1.2b (09/09/02)

 
09/09/02
      
    Computation of QUERY_VAL 

    This document describes how to compute QUERY_VAL for ACIS housekeeping data.

    Download postscript (59 K) or LaTeX source (13 K) of Rev. 1.1 (09/09/02)

    Download postscript (59 K) or LaTeX source (13 K) of Rev. 1.0 (08/26/02)

 
04/04/06
      
    Computation of X, Y, and TIMEs of Arrival of CC-Mode Events 

    This document describes how to compute the sky coordinates and times of arrival of photons at the detector for CC-mode event data.

    Download postscript (95 K) or LaTeX source (12 K) of Rev. 4.6 (04/04/06)

    Download postscript (99 K) or LaTeX source (12 K) of Rev. 4.5 (01/14/05)

    Download postscript (61 K) or LaTeX source (11 K) of Rev. 4.4 (04/25/03)

    Download postscript (60 K) or LaTeX source (12 K) of Rev. 4.3b (09/09/02)

    Download postscript (58 K) or LaTeX source (91 K) of Rev. 4.1 (12/18/01)

    Download postscript (1.7 M) file of Chandra Calibration Workshop presentation, November 2002 (11/07/02)

 
10/23/00
 
09/11/00
 
06/08/05
      
    Notes about ACIS instrument geometry data 

    This document describes some self-consistency tests of the LSI coordinates of the ACIS CCDs.

    Download postscript (142 K) or LaTeX source of Rev 1.0 (06/08/05)

 
07/10/02
      
    ACIS Pipeline Processing Caveats 

    This document describes caveats about ACIS pipeline-produced event data.

    HTML (07/10/02)

 
02/28/00
      
    ACIS Pipeline Processing Tools 

    This document describes the ACIS pipeline processing tools.

    Download postscript (90 K) of DRAFT of Rev 2.1 (02/28/00)

    Download postscript (89 K) of Rev 2.0 (11/01/99)

 
05/04/06
 
04/24/06
 
04/06/03
      
    Time-Dependent Gain ARD 

    This document describes the format of the ARD file used to compute the time-dependent gain adjustment.

    Download postscript (53 K) or LaTeX source (5 K) of Rev 1.0 (06/04/03)

 
06/02/06
 
11/15/04
      
    New ACIS-S Geometry File  

    This document specifies the update on ACIS-S CCD chip corner positions and MEG grating period.

    Download postscript (562 K) or LaTeX source (16 K) of Rev 1.0 (11/15/04)

 
Subject: HETG and LETG
11/02/04
      
    LETG+ACIS-S Spurious Rotation Issue  

    This document describes the LETG+ACIS-S spurious rotation issue.

    Download postscript (331 K) or LaTeX source (12 K) of Ver. 1.0 (11/02/04)

 
2004.06.11
      
    Technical Note: LETG/ACIS-S rotation compensation  

    Modification to extraction region to compensate for anomalous rotation residuals.

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03/23/06
      
    Finding Zeroth Order Position  

    This document describes a new algorithm of detecting zeroth order position.

    Download postscript (239 K) or LaTeX source (77 K) of Ver. 1.3 (12/28/06)

 
03/27/99
05/28/99
06/04/99
04/22/99

Subject: PSF
12/28/01
10/07/98
02/24/00
      
    LSF LIBRARY and TOOLS TECHNICAL REFERENCE 

    The LSF Library and Tools Technical Reference.  

    download postscript   .....  (588 K) 

    HTML   .....   

12/28/01
06/10/04
 
05/03/04
      
    LSFPARM for HETG+ACIS-S validated for unrandomized datasets  

    This document describes the quality of new non-randomized LSFPARM products for HETG+ACIS-S configuration.

    Download postscript (376 K) or LaTeX source (39 K) of Ver. 1.0 (04/26/04)

    Download postscript (372 K) or LaTeX source (40 K) of Ver. 1.1 (05/03/04)

 
05/03/04
      
    LSFPARM for LETG+HRC-S validated for unrandomized datasets  

    This document describes the quality of new non-randomized LSFPARM products for LETG+HRC-S configuration.

    Download postscript (287 K) or LaTeX source (9 K) of Ver. 1.0 (05/03/04)

 
07/20/04
      
    LSFPARM for LETG+ACIS-S validated for unrandomized datasets  

    This document describes the quality of new non-randomized LSFPARM products for LETG+ACIS-S configuration.

    Download postscript (181 K) or LaTeX source (26 K) of Ver. 1.0 (07/20/04)

 
Subject: Analysis Reference Data
3/26/99
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). 

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Subject: Exposure Map
2/09/99
2/08/99
      
    Aspect Histogram Processing and Data Products ICD 

    Download postscript or LaTeX source (About 14 pages/1 MB de-compressed)

09/11/2000
      
    Introduction to Exposure Maps 

    Download postscript (12 pages, about 1 Mb uncompressed)


Subject: Miscellaneous

    Notes by David Huenemoerder from CXC S-Lang classes (January, 2003)
    (ps) (pdf)
    The Slides (a less detailed version of the Notes):
    (ps) (pdf)

12/13/2001
      
    CIAO 3 Interactive Analysis Planning
 
04/02/97
      
    AXAF Transmission Grating Diffraction Coordinates
    Describes the transformation from reported event positions 
    to dispersion coordinates. 

    Download Postscript   .....  (101 K) 

 
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