check_expconf

This is a SAX specific program which reads the Experiment Configuration files provided by Telespazio on FOTs. There is one of such files per observations, and they are (overlong) ASCII files mimicking a FITS header dump, and listing the instrument setting, like in this excerpt :

INSTRACT= 'ON      '                /                    MECs Instrument Active^@
M1PMT   = 'ON      '                /                       MECS1 PMT HV Switch^@
M1WINDOW= 'ON      '                /                 MECS1 BE Window HV Switch^@
M1DRIFT = 'ON      '                /                MECS1 Drift Grid HV Switch^@
M1DU    = 'OFF     '                /                    MECS1 Detector Unit ON^@
M2DU    = 'ON      '                /                    MECS2 Detector Unit ON^@
ALLDUS  = 'ON      '                /                MECS All DUs ON/OFF Switch^@
LED     = 'OFF     '                /                    MECS LED ON/OFF switch^@
MONITOR = 'ENABLE  '                /                MECS Emin RM Monit. Enable^@
M2PMTHV =             976.2700      /                              MECS2 PMT HV^@
M1WINHV =            6500.0000      /                        MECS1 BE Window HV^@
...

The purpose of the program is to make a summary listing of relevant parameters indicating which of them are within valid ranges, and also to summarize the packets present in each observation.
Program coding is very dedicated (including generation of Postscript code directly, or usage of graphserv graphics calls to produce colour output on the screen. The only peculiarity is that this program makes use of an instrument support file to define outside of program code which Experiment Configuration parameters are relevant. This is a pointer to guidelines for setting up such file.

sax.iasf-milano.inaf.it/Xashelp/Prog/check_expconf.html :: original creation 2002 Sep 04 18:16:44 CEST :: last edit 2002 Sep 04 18:16:44 CEST