FTOOLS: The ASCA Sub-package

The ASCA sub-package of FTOOLS contains mission-specific tasks for the ASCA mission.

The following ASCA tasks were released in the latest distribution of the HEASARC's FTOOLS package. Each task is hyperlinked to the help file distributed with the task. The same information can be obtained while running FTOOLS by typing the command fhelp {taskname}.

If you require further, or more detailed information on the ASCA sub-package of FTOOLS, go to Feedback and select "ASCA."

ASCA Tasks

add_sis_rmf

Reports percentage of counts in evtfile in each chip

addascaspec

Combine ASCA spectral files

ascaarf

Generates an ASCA ARF file for an input PHA file

ascaeffmap

Generates an ASCA EFF detector image file for an input PHA file

ascaexpo

Generate an exposure map for an ASCA observation

ascalin

Produce the ASCA calibrated science file data products

ascascreen

Cleans raw ASCA science files

ascaray

ASCA mirror ray tracing program

ascatape

Read FITS files off NASA/GSFC/ADF supplied ASCA data distribution tapes.

aspect

Computes the euler angles of the best aspect point

attitude

Compute summary information for an ASCA attitude file

cleansis

Detect anomalous ASCA SIS pixel values and output the cleaned events file with a 'hot pixel' extension appended

corpileup

Apply pileup correction to ASCA data

correctrdd

Apply RDD correction to ASCA SIS FAINT, BRIGHT or BRIGHT2 data

dfe2mkf

Insert output information of FAINTDFE into existing MKF file

faint

Convert ASCA faint mode data to a bright mode format

faintdfe

Calculate the dark frame error for SIS FAINT mode data

fasttime

Corrects SIS FAST mode data times

fastwmap

Add a WMAP to a FAST mode spectral file

ghkcurve

Extract light curve from ASCA GIS housekeeping file

ghkdump

Display GIS housekeeping parameters of the GIS HK file

gisrti

Compute Rise Time Invariant value in GIS PH mode science file

gis3bitfix

Fix science files affected by the GIS3 3 bit LSB error Adapted to Perl from gis3bitfix.e

gqaplot

ASCA GIS quick analysis ftool

ldeadtime

Carry out deadtime correction for FITS light curves

make_ascaray_images

run the ftool "ascaray" sequentially for 300 energies from 0.1 keV to 12 keV.

mkdtime

Calculates the deadtime fractions for the GIS

mkfilter2

Produce an ASCA filter file for XSELECT

mkgisbgd

Create exposure corrected blank sky spectrum and image from point-source removed blank sky event files

offsetcoord

Offset a celestial coordinate pair

sisclean

Plot frequency histogram of an SIS image file and apply an intensity threshold cut

sisgbr

QDP fit branching ratios derived from FITS data

sishist

Frequency histogram of an image created from an SIS event file

sispi

Fills PI column of ASCA SIS event files

sisrmg

Generate SIS instrument response matrix

sqaplot

ASCA SIS quick analysis ftool

temp2gain

Make a GIS gain history file in FITS format from FRF file

timeconv

Convert from satellite to barycentric

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