FTOOLS: The TIME Sub-package
The TIME sub-package of FTOOLS contains tasks specific to timing.
The following TIME tasks were released in the latest release of the HEASARC's FTOOLS package. Each task is hyperlinked to the help file distributed with the task. The same information can be obtained while running FTOOLS by typing fhelp {taskname}.
If you require further, or more detailed information on the tasks in this sub-package, contact
ftoolshelp@athena.gsfc.nasa.gov
Time-Related Tasks:
- burst
- Remove bursts of events from time ordered event list
- cktime
- Checks that a time column is time ordered
- deadtime
- Update the exposure of PHA file by deadtime based on GTIs
- fltime
- Filter an event list within given time intervals (GTIs)
- maketime
- Calculate time intervals (GTIs) from housekeeping (HK) data
- mgtime
- Merge 2 or more time interval (GTI) files
- sec2time
- Convert time offset to absolute time
- time2sec
- Convert absolute time to a time offset
FTOOLS HELP DESK
If FTOOLS has been useful in your research, please reference this website (http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftools/) and the following:
Blackburn, J. K. 1995, in ASP Conf. Ser., Vol. 77, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems IV, ed. R. A. Shaw, H. E. Payne, and J. J. E. Hayes (San Francisco: ASP), 367.
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