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missions -- list of missions and instruments supported by the xray package
This is a list of missions (and mission ID's) and instruments (and instrument ID's) currently supported by the xray package.
The following X-ray missions are supported in the xray package: mission: ID in qpoe/table headers: ------- ------------------------ Einstein 10 ROSAT 20 The following X-ray instruments are supported in the xray package: instrument: ID in qpoe/table headers: ---------- ------------------------ EINSTEIN_HRI 11 EINSTEIN_FPCS 12 EINSTEIN_IPC 13 EINSTEIN_SSS 14 EINSTEIN_MPC 15 ROSAT_HRI 21 ROSAT_PSPC 22 ROSAT_WFC 23Support for X-ray instruments is required in the spectral package, where model spectra are generated by folding a model through instrument response functions. Such support is also required for tasks such as the vignetting tasks, which produce a mask of vignetting corrections for a specific mission. In a qpoe file (or an imh file made from a qpoe file), the parameters x_mission and x_inst have ID values as described above. In an STScI table file, the parameters mission and inst generally contain these ID values.
Documentation on PRF's (help prf ) for a description of the point response functions, PRF, for ROSAT and Einstein
Supporting documentation (help files) for the xray package (help pros )
