HEASARC Staff Scientist Position - Applications are now being accepted for a Staff Scientist with significant experience and interest in the technical aspects of astrophysics research, to work in the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt, MD. Refer to the AAS Job register for full details.
The ROSAT Sub-package of FTOOLS
The ROSAT sub-package of FTOOLS
contains tasks specific to the ROSAT
mission.
The following ROSAT tasks were released in the latest public 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}.
ROSAT Tasks
- abc
- Apply Barycentric Corrections to ROSAT event data
- ao
- Evaluates the geometrical variation of the scattered
solar X-ray background
- bct
- Produce a Barycenter Correction Table from ROSAT orbit data
- calcbgdcor
- Calculates the correction for background calculation of
source spectrum
- castpart
- Cast model particle background counts in sky coordinates
- detect
- detects sources from an image file
- extpha
- Extracts source spectrum files from PSPC _src files
- fixrev0pha
- Changes the CDELT1 and CDELT2 keywords in a ROSAT PHA file
- gevt2rdf
- Converts a German _events dataset to RDF _bas format
- hiback
- Creates _qsrc file from _src file
- hriaspcor
- Use Morse's method to correct aspect errors
- hriexpmap
- Creates exposure map for given ROSAT HRI observational dataset
- hrifilt
- Creates a ROSAT HRI makefilter file
- hrirpsf
- Calculates theoretical HRI PSF
- img2us
- Converts from German Image file format to US RFITS format
- lte
- Evaluates the polynomial fit made by RATEFIT routine
- mkqsrc
- Adds extra fields for quality screening to ROSAT source file
- mk_allevt
- Combines standard & rejected events tables of an RDF file
- pcarf
- Generates a ROSAT PSPC ARF for an input PHA file
- pcbgdcor
- performs background calc. for ROSAT [runs pcparpha,
pcarf,fixregion,calcbgdcor)
- pcecor
- Corrects PI channel in Events file
- pcexpmap
- Creates exposure map for ROSAT PSPC observation
- pcfilt
- Creates a ROSAT PSPC makefilter file
- pcparpha
- Generates a background PHA spectrum for ROSAT PSPC
- pcpicor
- Corrects PI channel in PSPC events file
- pcrpsf
- Calculates a theoretical radial PSF for the ROSAT PSPC
- pcsasscor
- Corrects PI channel for SASS spatial gain error in events file
- pctcor
- Applies temporal correction to PI data in PSPC events file
- rate
- Creates light curves binned on 30-s intervals for the seven bands
- ratefit
- Fits PSPC light curves in seven broad pulse-height bands
- rosbary
- Perform barycentric correction for ROSAT. (Runs abc & bct)
- roscc2utc
- converts spacecraft time to utc with MJD,yyyy-mm-dd:hr:min:sec
- src2pha
- Creates a PHA file from specified extensions in an RDF src file
- srcdetect
- Source detection which runs xselect and then detect
- tilt
- Evaluates the nominal scattered solar X-ray background
FTOOLS HELP DESK
If FTOOLS has been useful in your research, please reference this
site (https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftools) and use the
ASCL reference for HEASoft
[ascl:1408.004] or the
ASCL reference for the original FTOOLs paper
[ascl:9912.002]:
Blackburn, J. K. 1995, in ASP Conf. Ser., Vol. 77, Astronomical
Data Analysis Software and Systems IV, ed. R. A. Shaw, H. E. Payne,
and J. J. E. Hayes (San Francisco: ASP), 367.
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