| ecdinfo | xray.xdataio.eincdrom | ecdinfo |
ecdinfo -- display information about a specific Einstein dataset.
ecdinfo specifier inst datatype
ecdinfo allows the user to display information about data from any Einstein dataset. For most datasets, this information includes the field center, the sequence title, and the livetime of the sequence. The information is displayed to the screen and to the hidden parameters.
This task prompts the user for only the parameters which are needed. For instance, if the user uses "H1734S03.XPA" for the specifier, then the instrument (hri) and datatype (event list) are already known.
This specifies the requested data. It can be in the form of a FITS filename (i.e. "s0512s42.f3d" or "i0423n15.upa"), or it can be a sequence number (i.e. "9004" or "H1043").
The possible FITS extensions are .xi* (for IPC or HRI image files), .xp* (for IPC or HRI event files), .f3d (for IPC slew data), and .up* (for IPC unscreened data).
The instrument (ipc or hri) to get information for. The user will not be prompted for this parameter if the instrument is contained in the specifier.
The type of data (event, image, slew, or unscreened) to get information for. Again, the user will not be prompted for this parameter if the data type can be deduced from the specifier.
Note that there is no slew or unscreened data available for HRI.
This parameter is set to "yes" if the requested data exists.
The sequence associated with the requested data, such as "i9004" or "h1043". This parameter is set to "none" for IPC slew data.
The root of the FITS file name for this sequence, such as "i0423n15" or "s0449n84".
The extension letter of the FITS file name, such as "a", "b", "c", etc. For instance, IPC sequence 6839 has the extension "b" for its FITS files. This parameter is set to " " for IPC slew data, since all slew data have the identical extension.
The RA associated with this data set, in degrees.
The DEC associated with this data set, in degrees.
The hour associated with the dataset, e.g., "03h" or "21h". This value should correspond to the RA of the sequence.
The directory which should contain the CDROM holding the data for this sequence. See the eincdpar parameter file for a complete list of CDROM directories.
The main data on each CDROM is stored in the subdirectory data/##h, where ##h is the hour of the data. For example, the IPC event sequence i8102 might have its CDROM in the directory dir="ipcevt4$". If so, its main data is in the directory "ipcevt4$data/22h/".
The number of seconds which should be added to every photon arrival time and TGR records in the event file. This is only non-zero for HRI event data. The values come from a table HRI.timing.Erratum available by anonymous ftp at sao-ftp:
"All absolute event times on the HRI Event List CD-ROMs (Jan 1992) are slightly incorrect. Relative times within a sequence are not affected. The following table gives the correct value of the header card XS-TBASE (time of sequence start in seconds since 1978 Jan 0.0 UTC) and the number of seconds, DT, to be added to all event and TGR times in the FITS files (this number is a constant for a given sequence)."
The livetime associated with the data. See the section below on HRI livetime.
This parameter is zero for IPC slew data since there is no livetime information.
The title of the sequence.
The name of the file containing the eincdrom package wide parameters. If the name is empty (""), then the parameters will be obtained from the eincdpar task.
The display level. A setting of 0 should output no display, while settings above 3 are only useful for debugging.
1. Use ecdinfo to retrieve information on the event file for IPC sequence 8102 (xdata$snr.qp).
ei> ecdinfo
FITS filename OR sequence number: i8102
Datatype (event|image|slew|unscreened): event
FITS root: i2258n58, extension: a, sequence 8102.
Title: I08102 CTB 109 (POSSIBLE UNKNOWN SNR W/COMPACT SOURCE).
Ra=22:58:55.7, Dec=58:36:47.6, livetime: 4255.77 seconds.
This sequence should be on the CDROM in the directory ipcevt4$.
ei> lpar ecdinfo
specifier = "i8102" FITS filename OR sequence number
inst = "ipc" Einstein instrument
datatype = "event" Datatype
(is_valid = yes) Was the requested specifier & inst & datatype va
(seq = "i8102") Sequence number
(fits_root = "i2258n58") FITS root
(fits_ext = "a") FITS extension (i.e. 'a', 'b', etc.)
(ra = 344.7319) RA of sequence (in degrees)
(dec = 58.61323) DEC of sequence (in degrees)
(hour = "22h") Sequence hour
(dir = "ipcevt4$") Directory containing the CD with sequence data
(evt_off = 0.) Event time offset correction
(livetime = 4255.7734375) Livetime of sequence
(title = "I08102 CTB 109 (POSSIBLE UNKNOWN SNR W/COMPACT SOURCE)") Sequen
(eincdpar = "") Eincdrom package parameters
(display = 1) display level
(mode = "ql")
2. Use ecdinfo to retrieve information on the unscreened version of IPC sequence 8102.
ei> ecdinfo FITS filename OR sequence number: i2258n58.upa FITS root: i2258n58, extension: a, sequence 8102. Title: I08102 CTB 109 (POSSIBLE UNKNOWN SNR W/COMPACT SOURCE). Ra=22:58:55.7, Dec=58:36:47.5, livetime: 7503.87 seconds. This sequence should be on the CDROM in the directory ipcu18$.
The document deadtime.asc (located on the HRI image and HRIEVT CDROMs) gives deadtime corrections for most of the HRI sequences. However, there are 105 HRI sequences for which there is no dead-time correction information available. For these sequences, the parameter "livetime" contains the on-time instead. The sequences are as follows:
2 3 7 12 15 401 474 *631 *632 *633 *647 651 *708 *710 714 717 718 *719 783 *818 *819 *820 821 *822 823 *824 *826 *935 *937 940 *941 *943 *945 973 975 1031 1036 1061 1806 2111 *2843 *2844 *2845 2906 3047 *3364 *3502 3503 *4276 4364 4486 4859 4860 4862 4873 5249 5747 5750 5755 5917 6299 6544 6546 *6621 *6622 *6623 *6624 *6626 *6627 *6628 *6629 *6630 *6631 *6632 *6720 *6761 *6762 *6763 *6764 *6765 *6766 *6767 *6768 *6769 *6770 6814 7691 7717 7926 7927 7981 *8338 *8342 8476 *8934 9262 *9537 *9538 10276 10316 *10367 *10649 10757 10760 10777
(The starred sequences are OGS sequences.)
There are also five sequences whose on-time differed from what was expected in the deadtime.asc file. These sequences are as follows:
seq on-time in HRI FITS deadtime.asc DTC
282 75568.69 75609.6 1.035
349 2804.16 12831.4 1.019
981 149.44 3280.3 1.017
6335 2404.80 28939.5 1.026
10139 25569.58 24907.2 1.044
For these five sequences, we calculated the livetime by multiplying the dead-time correction from the deadtime.asc file by the on-time found in the HRI FITS file.
There are a few FITS files with RA and DEC values which do not match the FITS name or hour. For example, see IPC event sequence 8760.
This task typically takes under 5 seconds to run on a SPARCstation.
See ecd2pros to convert FITS files on the Einstein CDROMs into PROS format.
See explain_eincdrom for more information on the data on the CDROMs.