XMM-Newton Science Analysis System: Users' Guide


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2.5 Selecting a SAS task

A list of SAS tasks appears when typing the command sas which calls the SAS Graphical User Interface (GUI). A SAS task can simply be called (through its GUI) by double-clicking on its name. The use of the SAS GUI is explained in § 3. SAS tasks include:

A list of packages in alphabetic order or classified by groups is accessible at:

http://xmm.esac.esa.int/sas/current/doc/

For detailed descriptions of the tasks, the user is referred to the SAS package descriptions which can be accessed at the above address or via the SAS GUI help button. As a starting point, the user could read the package documentation of the list of frequently used tasks provided in Table 1.




Table 1: Some frequently used SAS tasks
Task name Task description
arfgen Generates an EPIC ancillary response file
calview An interactive viewer of the XMM-Newton calibration database
cifbuild Creates a Calibration Index File for a given observation date
edetect_chain EPIC source detection metatask
emproc Fully configurable ``pipeline'' processing of EPIC MOS observation data files (ODFs)
epproc Fully configurable ``pipeline'' processing of EPIC PN ODFs
evselect Filters event lists and extracts images, spectra, timeseries and histograms
odfbrowser Interactive graphical viewer of an XMM-Newton observation
omichain Fully configurable ``pipeline'' processing of the OM imaging mode ODFs
omfchain Fully configurable ``pipeline'' processing of the OM fast mode ODFs
omgchain Fully configurable ``pipeline'' processing of the OM grism mode ODFs
rgsproc Fully configurable ``pipeline'' processing of the RGS part of an observation
rgsrmfgen Constructs an RGS response matrix file
rmfgen Generates an EPIC response file
sas Launch the SAS graphical user interface
srcdisplay Display image overlayed with positions of detected sources
xmmselect Interactive filtering and extraction of images, spectra, timeseries and histograms


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