An illustrative run making a spectrum and its response matrix.
First we read the data in...
genji.gsfc.nasa.gov> xselect
** XSELECT V2.0 **
> Enter session name >[xsel]
Notes: XSELECT set up for ASCA
Time keyword is TIME in units of s
Default timing binsize = 16.000
xsel:ASCA > read e
> Enter the Event file dir >[./]
> Enter Event file list >[] s3good.evt
Got new mission: AXAF
> Reset the mission ? >[yes]
Notes: XSELECT set up for AXAF
Time keyword is TIME in units of s
Default timing binsize = 16.000
Setting...
Image keywords = X Y with binning = 4
WMAP keywords = CHIPX CHIPY with binning = 32
Energy keywords = PHA with binning = 1
Getting Min and Max for Energy Column...
Got min and max for PHA: 0 36855
Could not get minimum time resolution of the data read
Number of files read in: 1
******************** Observation Catalogue ********************
Data Directory is: /local/genji/data3/kaa/SSA13/S3/
HK Directory is: /local/genji/data3/kaa/SSA13/S3/
OBJECT DATE-OBS LIVETIME DETNAM READMODE FIRSTROW NROWS
1 S-Z CLUSTER 1999-12-03 0.97E+05 ACIS-23678 TIMED NOT_FOUND NOT_FOUND
Switch to extracting in PI space...
xsel:AXAF-ACIS-FAINT > set phaname PI
Getting Min and Max for Energy Column...
Got min and max for PI: 0 1024
Define the region filter, extract the spectrum and save it...
xsel:AXAF-ACIS-FAINT > filter reg src10.reg
xsel:AXAF-ACIS-FAINT > extr spec
extractor v3.79 21 Jun 2000
Getting FITS WCS Keywords
Doing file: /local/genji/data3/kaa/SSA13/S3/s3good.evt
100% completed
Total Good Bad: Region Time Phase Cut
254298 265 254033 0 0 0
===============================================================================
Grand Total Good Bad: Region Time Phase Cut
254298 265 254033 0 0 0
in 96928. seconds
Spectrum has 265 counts for 2.7340E-03 counts/sec
... written the PHA data Extension
xsel:AXAF-ACIS-FAINT > save spec testit.sp group=no
Truncated the spectrum to 1 - 1024
Wrote spectrum to testit.sp
Note that xselect truncates the spectrum to 1-1024 (it is
actually 0-1024 in the files but PI=0 is invalid). Now leave xselect
and run acismakermf...
xsel:AXAF-ACIS-FAINT > quit
> Save this session? >[no]
genji.gsfc.nasa.gov> acismakermf testit.sp s3 testit.rmf
Observation performed on 12/03/1999
Detector temperature is -110 C
acisrmf infile=testit.sp rmfdir=/chandra/calib_data/acis/s3/rmf/00may/ ccdtemp=-110 outfile=temp.lst fefoption=no
acisrmf v1.3 21 Jun 2000
addrmf list="@temp.lst" rmffile=testit.rmf
ADDRMF vers 1.15 17 March 2000.
Summing ...
3.434E-01 * /chandra/calib_data/acis/s3/rmf/00may//bi7c0_110/ccd7_c0.0.21.32.pi.rmf
2.226E-01 * /chandra/calib_data/acis/s3/rmf/00may//bi7c0_110/ccd7_c0.1.21.32.pi.rmf
2.792E-01 * /chandra/calib_data/acis/s3/rmf/00may//bi7c0_110/ccd7_c0.0.22.32.pi.rmf
1.547E-01 * /chandra/calib_data/acis/s3/rmf/00may//bi7c0_110/ccd7_c0.1.22.32.pi.rmf
RMF # 1 : /chandra/calib_data/a 0.34
CXC ACIS NONE NONE PI
RMF # 2 : /chandra/calib_data/a 0.22
CXC ACIS NONE NONE PI
RMF # 3 : /chandra/calib_data/a 0.28
CXC ACIS NONE NONE PI
RMF # 4 : /chandra/calib_data/a 0.15
CXC ACIS NONE NONE PI
... using rdrmf4 1.3.2
... read all the keywords
... reading the data
... successfully read RSP_MATRIX data
... using rdrmf4 1.3.2
... read all the keywords
... reading the data
... successfully read RSP_MATRIX data
... using rdrmf4 1.3.2
... read all the keywords
... reading the data
... successfully read RSP_MATRIX data
... using rdrmf4 1.3.2
... read all the keywords
... reading the data
... successfully read RSP_MATRIX data
... using wtrmf4 1.4.0
... new extension created
... Max # elements in F_CHAN & N_CHAN arrays = 2
... Max # elements in MATRIX array = 62
... Using Variable length array for MATRIX column
... written the extension header keywords
... written the OGIP required keywords
... written the history keywords
... written the comment keywords
... defined the data structure
... successfully written RSP_MATRIX data