Light curves have been extracted, from the same data cubes as have the
spectral data (see section 2.6); in the energy bands
2-6, 6-7, 7-17 and 2-17 keV. These bands cover the soft X-ray
emission, the iron K
line emission, the hard X-ray continuum
and the full energy band. There are light curves and light curve
images for both the top- and mid-layers (see figure 6). In addition,
the intrinsic variability (total variance minus statistical noise) is
given in the databases as
| (3) |
where xi is the count rate for bin i,
is the
mean count rate during the observation and
is the
variance for bin i).
The format of the light curve files follows OGIP FITS conventions (Angelini, Pence & Tennant 1994) and they can be used within the XRONOS timing analysis package (Stella & Angellini 1993), which is part of the XANADU suite of software.