Contents

• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• INTRODUCTION
  • Overview
  • Methodology
  • MOS Reduction versus pn Reduction
  • More on Background Components
  • The Problem of Sparseness
  
  
• CHANGE LOG
  • Summary
  • Concordance
  • Future
  
  
• CAVEAT EMPTOR
• ESAS FLOW CHART
• XMM-ESAS COOKBOOK
  • The XMM-ESAS Package
  • Calibration/CCF Files
  • XMM-ESAS Produced Files - Some Warnings
  • How This Cookbook Works
  • SAS Reminders
  • Setup
  • Initial ESAS Processing
  • Examining Some Diagnostics
  • Examining CCDs for Anomalous States
  • Soft Proton Flare Filtering
  • Merging
  • Detecting and Excising of Point Sources
  • Creation of Model Particle Background Spectra and Images
  • Preparing for Further Analysis
  
  
• SPECTRAL FITS
  • Quiescent Particle Background
  • Cosmic & Galactic Backgrounds
  • Residual Soft Proton Emission
  • Solar Wind Charge Exchange Background
  • Outside Constraints
  • Models and Xspec
  • Xspec Fits of Multiple Regions: Clusters
  
  
• IMAGE PRODUCTION
  • Particle Background
  • Soft Proton Background
  • Solar Wind Charge Exchange Background
  • Stray Light
  • Masking
  • Image Creation
  • Image Analysis
  • Image Massaging
  
  
• MOSAICS
  • The Overall Mechanics
  • Source Removal Considerations
  
  
• MOSAIC MODE OBSERVATIONS
  • Soft Proton Filtering
  
  
• OTHER USEFUL THINGS
  • PPS File Names
  • merge
  • Maximal Identical Regions for All Detectors Simultaneously
  
  
• REFERENCES
• TASK DESCRIPTIONS
  • BINADAPT
  • BINADAPTMERGE
  • CHEESE
  • COMBIMAGE
  • CONVREGION
  • EMANOM
  • EMLFILL
  • EMLMERGE
  • ESPFILT
  • MOSAICMERGE
  • MOSBACK
  • MOSSPECTRA
  • PNBACK
  • PNSPECTRA
  • POINTSRC
  • PROTON
  • PROTONSCALE
  • ROTDET2SKY
  • SPPARTIAL
  • SWCX
  
  
• EXAMPLES
  • A Simple Single Observation, Spectroscopy and Imaging
  • A Complex Single Observation, Spectroscopy and Imaging
  • Multiple Overlapping Obsids, Imaging
  • Cheese with Multiple Overlapping Observations
  
  
• References