1. XMM EPIC SOC Richard Saxton Background, Operations & Calibration (BOC) meeting Madrid, 23/03/10-24/03/10 Recent changes in Epic-related SAS spectral tasks Richard Saxton

2. XMM EPIC SOC Richard Saxton Background, Operations & Calibration (BOC) meeting Madrid, 23/03/10-24/03/10 SPECGROUP  Define the useful range of spectral channels  Group channels according to statistical criteria  Set keywords for spectral fitting programs  Currently works on EPIC and RGS spectra (others ?)  Enhanced version of GRPPHA A new SAS task to: A new SAS task designed to:

3. XMM EPIC SOC Richard Saxton Background, Operations & Calibration (BOC) meeting Madrid, 23/03/10-24/03/10 Setting bad channels Bad ranges pre-defined in XMM_SPECQUAL CCF. Screenshot Of CCF blocks specgroup spectrumset=myspec.ds setbad=CCF Or can be set explicitely: specgroup spectrumset=myspec.ds setbad=“0.0-0.4 10.0-25.0” units=KEV rmfset=epn.rmf specgroup spectrumset=myspec.ds setbad=“0-10 1100-1200” MOS, PN RGS

4. XMM EPIC SOC Richard Saxton Background, Operations & Calibration (BOC) meeting Madrid, 23/03/10-24/03/10 Screenshot Of CCF blocks MOS, PN RGS

5. XMM EPIC SOC Richard Saxton Background, Operations & Calibration (BOC) meeting Madrid, 23/03/10-24/03/10 Grouping options  Manually set the ranges specgroup spectrumset=myspec.ds ranges=“0-10 11-20 1100-1200”  Regular binning specgroup spectrumset=myspec.ds regbinstart=1 regbinwid=10  Group by counts specgroup spectrumset=myspec.ds mincounts=25  Group by signal to noise specgroup spectrumset=myspec.ds minsn=5  Group by ratio to background specgroup spectrumset=myspec.ds backgndset=mybgd.ds minratio=3  Combination specgroup spectrumset=myspc.ds minsn=5 ranges=“0:10 1100:1200”

6. XMM EPIC SOC Richard Saxton Background, Operations & Calibration (BOC) meeting Madrid, 23/03/10-24/03/10 End bin options  Set ungrouped pixels bad: specgroup spectrumset=myspec.ds minsn=5 lastbin=setbad  Add them to the adjacent group specgroup spectrumset=myspec.ds mincounts=25 lastbin=addtogroup  Set them as an independent group specgroup spectrumset=myspec.ds minsn=5 lastbin=owngroup  Group from low or high energies specgroup spectrumset=myspec.ds minsn=4 hightolow=yes

7. XMM EPIC SOC Richard Saxton Background, Operations & Calibration (BOC) meeting Madrid, 23/03/10-24/03/10 Energy resolution  Use fraction of resolution defined in CCF specgroup spectrumset=myspec.ds minsn=5 oversample=3 rmfset=mymos.rmf This ensures that any one group is at least as wide as the energy resolution at the central energy of the group divided by the oversampling factor. Energy resolution is stored in the XMM_SPECQUAL CCF: MOS PN

8. XMM EPIC SOC Richard Saxton Background, Operations & Calibration (BOC) meeting Madrid, 23/03/10-24/03/10 MOS PN

9. XMM EPIC SOC Richard Saxton Background, Operations & Calibration (BOC) meeting Madrid, 23/03/10-24/03/10 Keyword setting  By default the program sets the BACKFILE, ANCRFILE, RESPFILE keywords to either “NONE”or to the values given on the command line. specgroup spectrumset=myspec.ds arfset=myarf.ds rmfset=myrmf.ds will set the arf and rmf filenames as given and will set BACKFILE to NONE. These are needed for XSPEC 12 to load the file.

10. XMM EPIC SOC Richard Saxton Background, Operations & Calibration (BOC) meeting Madrid, 23/03/10-24/03/10 CAL file issues  We read the energy resolution and bad channel ranges from an XMM CCF for the MOS, PN and RGS instruments.  Task should be usable for other instruments, e.g. Chandra. There is a need for a mission-independent calibration file format !

11. XMM EPIC SOC Richard Saxton Background, Operations & Calibration (BOC) meeting Madrid, 23/03/10-24/03/10 Elliptical parameterisation of the 2-d stacked PSFs. Released in SAS 10. Parameters stored in XRTn_XPSF_010.CCF files - King fn: core radius, slope, ellipticity - as function of (instrument), energy, off-axis angle Phi (azimuthal) dependence = rotation of ellipse ELLIPTICAL King function 0°0° 45° 90°

12. XMM EPIC SOC Richard Saxton Background, Operations & Calibration (BOC) meeting Madrid, 23/03/10-24/03/10 Elliptical parameterisation of the 2-d stacked PSFs. Released in SAS 10. 1-D PSF ‘ELLBETA’ mode – King profile (r0, alpha), ellipticity – fn(instr, E, theta) + Gaussian (FWHM, norm) – used in ARF generation/spectral fitting for elliptical regions. Phi (azimuthal) dependence = rotation of ellipse --------------------------------------------------------------- eregionanalyse calculates the optimum ellipse arfgen recognises the optimum ellipse region and calculates the encircled-energy correction using the ELLBETA model. A non-optimum ellipse uses the ‘HIGH’ accuracy PSF model. These tasks packaged up in xmmselect “OGIP spectral products’ Producing optimum ellipse

13. XMM EPIC SOC Richard Saxton Background, Operations & Calibration (BOC) meeting Madrid, 23/03/10-24/03/10 efluxer  efluxer spectrumset=mysrc.ds arfset=mysrc.arf rrmset=mysrc.rmf backgndset=mybgd.ds fluxedset=mysrc_fluxed.ds