Appendix D : List of XAS commands

Environment handling

• xasset assign values to XAS environment variables
• xasunset delete XAS environment variables
• xasplot assign values to some graphics XAS environment variables
• importback (Unix only) import XAS environment into Unix environment

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  FOT filing

• fotfile (fotfile_2 fotfile_3) FOT filing program (in 3 steps)
• check_expconf experiment configuration summary
• concatenate observation concatenation

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  Data accumulation

• check_expconf experiment configuration summary
• accumulate front end accumulation program to:
  • mecsgainaccum MECS gain history
  • mecsmaccum MECS response matrix
  • pdsmaccum PDS response matrix
  • saxiaccum saxgaccum spatial and generic (pseudo-)images
  • saxsaccum saxhaccum spectra and (generic) histograms
  • saxhkaccum HK time profiles
  • saxpaccum photon lists
  • saxtaccum time profiles
• saxauxcalc generate auxiliary quantity time profiles

• twindow generate time windows
• iwindow generate intensity windows
• mergewindow merge time windows

• xaccumulate front end cross-accumulation program to:
  • xiaccum xgaccum spatial and generic (pseudo-)images
  • xsaccum xhaccum spectra and (generic) histograms
  • xpaccum photon lists
  • xtaccum time profiles

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  Data manipulation

• psdgrppha rebinning of PDS spectra
• psdoprspe operations on PDS spectra
• insertboundary (contributed) insert channel boundaries in keV into a XAS spectrum
• tappend (contributed) append one time profile after another

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  Data handling

• header_edit edit XAS file header keywords
• hlist list XAS file header
• tlist list content of XAS data file

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  Graphics

• createserver start one of the following graphic servers :
  • bwserver front-end (black & white) to PostScript server
  • c2server front-end (colour Level 2) to PostScript server
  • cpserver front-end (colour) to PostScript server
  • psserver back-end PostScript server
  • xwserver X-window (X11) server
• deleteserver terminate graphics server
• registerserver register a graphic server in current session

• display front-end to graphical display of:
  • idisp images
  • splot spectra
  • tplot all kinds of time profiles
  • wplot time windows
• overtrace graphical display on the current plot
• xasplot assign values to some graphics XAS environment variables
• saodisp produce runstring for displaying an image with SAOimage

• readlut read content of current colour table
• writelut write (part of) colour table

• plotdata (contributed) shortcut to plot last fitted count spectrum
• plotfit (contributed) shortcut to plot last fitted photon spectrum
• plotres (contributed) shortcut to plot residuals
• overfit (contributed) shortcut to overplot a fitted spectrum
• overres (contributed) shortcut to overplot residuals of fit

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  Format conversion

• localize convert XAS files between different operating systems
• saodisp produce runstring for displaying an image with SAOimage
• degeneralize assign XAS type to generic tabular file
• fromfits conversion of FITS files to XAS
• fromogip conversion of OGIP FITS files to XAS
• tofits conversion of XAS files to FITS
• toogip conversion of XAS files to OGIP FITS

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