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The SAX WFC Data Analysis System

``How to make your SAX life even better''
--- Software User Manual ---

Sat Jan 18 15:05:30 MET 1997

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This manaul is a hardcopy of several files which can be accessed online on the NeSDaC WWW-server, http://purple.sron.ruu.nl. Also PostScript copies of this and other manuals can be found here.

• Contents
• Introduction
  • Relase notes
  • Abbreviations
  • FOT production
  • FOT structure for WFC's
  • FOT fetching
  • Resulting filename conventions
  • Structure of run levels
• General use of scripts and programs
  • Parameter passing by the FTOOLS convention
  • w_run
  • w_vaxlink
  • w_viewps
• Stage-I scripts
  • General use of scripts
  • w_proc
  • w_fits
  • w_plot
  • w_clean
• Stage-I programs
  • watproc
  • wattana
  • wfotfits
  • wgain
  • wgtiflt
  • whkproc
  • wmakgti
  • wmrggti
  • wqplot
  • wshift
  • wslew
• Stage-II programs
  • Stage-II overview
  • Environment settings
  • WFC configuration
  • mask
  • detector
  • instrument
  • cdi
  • correlate
  • iros
  • simulate
  • lcv
  • eci
  • wop
  • wspiros
  • File types
    • mask file
    • detector file
    • instrument file
    • detector image file
    • sky file
    • res file
    • source list
    • lcv file
  • Parameter interface
  • File lists
  • Ranges
• Miscellaneous topics
  • Time assignment
    • Dates and times in files
    • External time referencing
  • Attitude processing
  • Data cleaning and selection
  • Satellite and instrument axes
  • Rate peak detection
  • Dead time calculation
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