MIT CXC Documents

CONTENTS:

Subject: ACIS
06/08/99
 
08/06/99
 
03/12/99
      
    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 (525K) or LaTeX source of Rev 1.3 (03/12/99)

 
04/07/99
      
    CXC Data Processing Tools for ACIS 

    A description of the ACIS data processing tools under design or construction at the CXC.

    Download postscript (484 K) of Rev 1.2 (04/07/99)

 
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
05/28/99
06/04/99
07/20/98

Subject: PSF
03/03/98
      
    PSF TOOL Inputs 

    The inputs for the various PSF tools is outlined here.  

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02/05/99
10/07/98

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
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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