XMM-Newton
Users Handbook
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The Science Analysis Software (SAS) is the software
package to reduce and analyse the XMM-Newton science data.
It broadly consists of two main blocks:
- reduction pipelines, which apply the calibrations
to the ODF/SDF science files, and produce
calibrated and concatenated event lists (for the X-ray
cameras) and flat-fielded and calibrated OM sky images, source
lists and time series.
- a set of file manipulation tools. Such tools
allow also the extraction of spectra, light curves,
(pseudo-)images and the generation of
source lists,
as well as the generation of the appropriate instrument
response matrices.
The user is referred to the SAS Users Guide for a general
description of the SAS, as well as to the on-line available
SAS Documentation.
The SOC is maintaining a SAS Scientific Validation page which contains results of the
scientific validation of the currently available SAS version. It reflects
therefore the data reduction and analysis software state-of-the-art, and
provides additional and frequently updated information on the accuracy of
the XMM-Newton calibrations.
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