1. SAS v17
Contents and schedule

2. Novelties in SAS 17 GPL license Python support XMMextractor
EPN, discarded lines, time averaging (see MJF talk)
Edetect_stack
RGS frame jump fixer
Multi-Pointing mode support
Esas updates (see KK talk)

3. GPL license
// SAS is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify // it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by // the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or // (at your option) any later version. // // SAS is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, // but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; ………… “Developers that use the GNU GPL protect your rights with two steps: (1) assert copyright on the software, and (2) offer you this License giving you legal permission to copy, distribute and/or modify it.” i.e. this makes the code open source.

4. Python support within SAS
Built on miniConda 3. Instructions have been provided to developers by Eduardo Ojero Gives an environment by which python scripting on top of SAS tasks or new Python tasks can be robustly developed. NB: interfaces from Python to the C++ classes are not Available.

5. XMMextractor

6. XMMextractor
RGS ODF processing

7. XMMextractor : RGS raw spectrum

8. XMMextractor: RGS fluxed spectrum

9. XMMextractor : image creation

10. XMMextractor : EPIC light curve creation
EPIC-pn lightcurve of AB Dor !

11. XMMextractor: source searching
EPIC source search analysis

12. Remote Interface SAS Analysis (RISA)
Made public on 5/5/2017
Useful for automatic processing of multiple observations
Used so far by 80 external users – 570 processed obs.

13. Discarded Lines
Event energy reconstruction (epevents) using the very recent background value
In conjunction with long-term CTI function. Number of discarded lines
used as a proxy for background level.

14. Schedule Move into release mode on March 21st.
Validation activities start on March 26th
Release scheduled for May 7th

15. New upper limit server

16. Output

17. XMM – fluxes and upper limits

18. And ROSAT…

19. MKN 421 – multiple missions