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RXTE GOF	The RXTE Cook Book Recipes for Data Analysis and Reduction	RXTE FAQ

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The RXTE Cook Book contains two kinds of step-by-step recipes intended to guide you through the various data reduction and analysis tasks:

1. End-to-end recipes outline all the steps from start to finish for "overall" tasks like "extracting a light curve from Good Xenon data over a given energy band."

2. Individual recipes are the building blocks of the end-to-end recipes. They give the steps for tasks like "selecting data by detector and anode."

With this distinction, users who already know how to to create a spectrum, say, can conveniently find out how to do an "extra" step like applying a deadtime correction. Where appropriate, the recipes reference complimentary information in the Getting Started Guide and The ABC of XTE. Next to each is a link to the PostScript version which is also available via anonymous ftp at legacy.gsfc.nasa.gov/xte/doc/cook_book/. (There is also a gzipped tar file cotaining all the individual PostScript files.)

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End-to-End Recipes

• PCA
  • Reduction and Analysis of PCA Binned-Mode Data - (postscript)
  • Reduction and Analysis of PCA Event-Mode Data - (postscript)
• Reduction and Analysis of HEXTE Data - (postscript)
• Data Reduction using Rex Script
• Working with the ASM Data Products - (postscript)

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Individual Recipes

• Preliminaries
  • How to access the RXTE Archive - (postscript)
  • The RXTE Standard Data Products
  • The RXTE Mission-Long Data Products
  • Creating XTE filter files - (postscript)
  • Working with realtime data - (postscript)
  • Retrieving production data from the RXTE-GOF online area
• Screening and Selection
  • Selecting data by detector and anode - (postscript)
  • DDL, Sefilter, and Event Mode Data - (postscript)
  • Common Bitmasks
  • Dealing with Data Gaps: New RXTE Data Categories
  • Dealing with PCA Breakdown Events
• Background Subtraction and Other Calibration Issues
  • PCA Digest: Latest Information on Background Subtraction and Calibration
  • Timing Digest: The ins and outs of timing keywords, ephemerides, barycenter correcting, time systems, etc.
  • Correcting for PCA deadtime in spectra - (postscript)
  • Running pcabackest - (postscript)
• Data Analysis
  • Creating PCA response matrices - (postscript)
  • Creating and plotting light curves, hardness ratios and color-color diagrams - (postscript)
  • Using fasebin to Create Phase-Binned Spectra and Histograms -(postscript)
  • Fourier analysis of PCA data and searches for high-frequency QPO - (postscript)
  • Combining 3-PCU, 4-PCU and 5-PCU spectra - (postscript)
• Miscellaneous
  • Plotting with PLT - (postscript)
  • XTE FITS database management for users - (postscript)
  • Application IDs - (postscript)
  • Obtaining and using PGP - (postscript)
  • Energy-Channel Conversion Table - (postscript)
  • Known Bugs

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This page is maintained by the RXTE GOF and was last modified on Wednesday, 24-Sep-2008 14:14:02 EDT.