MIT CXC Documents
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Subject: ACIS
12/04/02
      
    acis_build_mask Spec 

    This document describes a specification for the ACIS tool acis_build_mask.

    Download postscript (60 K) or LaTeX source (14 K) of Rev. 3.2 (12/04/02)

 
09/03/02
      
    acis_detect_hotpix Spec 

    This document describes a specification for the ACIS tool acis_detect_hotpix.

    Download postscript (65 K) or LaTeX source (16 K) of Rev. 1.0 (09/03/02)

 
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)

 
09/09/02
      
    Computation of CTI adjustments 

    This document describes how to compute the CTI-adjusted values of PHAS, PHA, ENERGY, PI, FLTGRADE, and GRADE for ACIS event data.

    Download postscript (71 K) or LateX source (26 K) of Rev. 4.7b (09/09/02)

 
09/09/02
      
    Computation of FLTGRADE, GRADE, and PHA 

    This document describes how to compute FLTGRADE, GRADE, and PHA for ACIS event data.

    Download postscript (64 K) or LateX source (7 K) of Rev. 1.3b (09/09/02)

    Download postscript (280 K) of Rev. 1.1 (04/02/99)

 
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)

 
11/07/02
      
    Computation of TIMEs of Arrival of CC-Mode Events 

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

    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
 
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)

 
09/25/02
      
    STATUS bits in bad pixel files 

    This document describes the conditions for which the STATUS bits in ACIS bad pixel files are set.

    Download postscript (50 K) or LaTeX source (6 K) of Rev 1.1 (09/25/02)

 
10/18/02
      
    STATUS bits in event files 

    This document describes the conditions for which the STATUS bits in ACIS event data files are set.

    HTML or download postscript (51 K) or LaTeX source (8 K) of Rev 1.6 (10/18/02)

    Download postscript (51 K) or LaTeX source (8 K) of Rev 1.5b (09/10/02)

 
Subject: HETG and LETG
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
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). 

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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
2001.01.27

    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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