SAS Data Analysis Threads - XMM-Newton
SAS Threads
Jupyter Notebook Threads
With the infrastructure of Python introduced in SAS 19, three experimental threads have been released under Jupyter Notebooks. These threads are not intended to be complete but to serve the purpose of illustrating how to use the Python interface to run SAS from a Jupyter Notebook
| SAS Start-up and event list manipulation | ||
| - SAS start-up thread in Python | Jupyter Notebook | html |
| - How to reprocess ODFs to generate calibrated and concatenated EPIC event lists | Jupyter Notebook | html |
| - How to filter EPIC event lists for flaring particle background | Jupyter Notebook | html |
Common Threads
| Starting the SAS | ||
| - SAS start-up | command line | |
| All in one go: from raw data (ODF) to science products | ||
| - Analysis chain for point-like sources: xmmextractor | command line | |
| Guidelines for scientific analysis | ||
| - Spectral analysis with XSPEC | command line | |
| - Timing analysis with XRONOS | command line | |
EPIC related Threads
| All in one go: from raw data (ODF) to science products | ||
| - Analysis chain for point-like sources: xmmextractor | command line | |
| Step-by-Step | ||
| Event list generation: | ||
| - How to reprocess ODFs to generate calibrated and concatenated EPIC event lists | command line | |
| Filtering against high background: | ||
| - How to filter EPIC event lists for flaring particle background | command line & GUI version | |
| Light curve generation: | ||
| - Extraction of a light curve for a point-like source (EPIC and RGS) | command line | GUI version |
| Spectrum extraction: | ||
| - Extraction of MOS spectra from point-like sources | command line | GUI version |
| - Extraction of MOS spectra from point-like sources taken in timing mode | command line | |
| - Extraction of pn spectra from point-like sources | command line | GUI version |
| - Extraction of pn spectra from point-like sources taken in timing mode | command line | |
| - Extraction of spectra in a few clicks: especget | GUI version | |
| - Combining the spectra of the 3 EPIC cameras | command line | |
| - Overlapping EPIC data treatment: multixmmselect | GUI version | |
| - Analysing EPIC spectra from multi-pointing mode data | command line | |
| Point Spread Function (PSF) generation: | ||
| - 2-D PSF à la carte | command line | |
| More complex analysis for bright sources | ||
| - Dealing with EPIC Out-of-Time (OoT) events | command line | |
| - How to evaluate and test pile-up in an EPIC source | command line | |
| Handling of EPIC background | ||
| - How to use EPIC instrumental background files | command line | |
| ESAS: | ||
| - Creation of EPIC background subtracted, exposure corrected images | command line | |
| - Creation of EPIC merged background subtracted and exposure corrected images | command line | |
| - Creation of EPIC spectral analysis files for a cluster radial profile | command line | |
| Images: | ||
| - A shell script to create attractive EPIC-pn & MOS combined images | dedicated Web page | |
| - How to Generate Vignetting-corrected Background-subtracted EPIC Images | command line | |
| Source detection | ||
| - EPIC source finding thread in one go: edetect_chain | command line | |
| - EPIC source finding thread: step-by-step | command line | |
| - EPIC source finding in overlapping exposures | command line | |
| Slew data processing | ||
| - How to process EPIC slew data | command line | |
RGS related Threads
| All in one go: from raw data (ODF) to science products | ||
| - Analysis chain for point-like sources: xmmextractor | command line | |
| Step-by-Step | ||
| - How to reduce RGS data and extract spectra of point-like sources | command line | |
| - rgsproc, coordinates and masks | command line | |
| Light curve generation: | ||
| - Extraction of a light curve for a point-like source (EPIC and RGS) | command line | GUI version |
| More complex analysis for the very bright sources | ||
| - Pile-up in the RGS: how to prevent it, evaluate its existence and make corrections | command line | |
OM related Threads
| All in one go: from raw data (ODF) to science products | ||
| - Analysis chain for point-like sources: xmmextractor | command line | |
| Step-by-Step | ||
| - OM image mode data processing chain | processing chain | command line |
| - OM fast mode data processing chain | processing chain | command line |
| - OM Grism processing chain | processing chain | command line |
| - Interactive OM photometry | command line | |
| - Converting OM data to OGIP II format (use in xspec) | command line | |
| - Converting OM grism spectra for use in xspec | command line | |
| - Combining OM fast mode time series into a single data set | command line | |