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Rate peak detection

Finding peaks in the detector countrate is performed by program 'whkproc'.
Per detected peak a row is stored in a FITS file.  The information stored
is risetime and falltime of the peak, the countrate at the peak maximum, 
and the total counts of the peak above the running average.
   The algorithm for finding a peak is based on the count rate of the 
input event processor.  This countrate is available every second in the 
Science Housekeeping data.  The FITS keyword for the column containing
these values is 'RATE_EVENT'.  At any point the counts of a fixed number 
of seconds (currently 50) are buffered and used to find a peak.  A peak 
is accepted if the distance to the falltime of a previous peak is at least 
a predetermined number of seconds (presently 3) and if for at most a fixed 
number of succesive counts (presently 24) counts are above the buffer 
average by at least a fixed number (presently 100)



Mark Savenije
Sat Jan 18 15:04:49 MET 1997