0. XAS Help Table of Content

Preliminaries

• * cover page (for PostScript version only)
• i introduction
• ii contributors
• iii standard disclaimer
• * motto (for PostScript version only)
• 0. table of content (this page)

Textual help pages

1. Top menu use this alternate form for printing as PostScript
2. Using XAS programs
   • Notation conventions
   • Invoking XAS commands
   • XAS command files
   • XAS procedures
3. The XAS environment
   • XAS environment variables
   • The xasset command
   • XAS files
   • XAS header keywords
   • Communication channels
4. Filing a Final Observation Tape (FOT)
   • SAX Final Observation Tape Layout
   • Environment setting for FOT filing
   • The fotfile command
   • SAX telemetry files on disk
5. Concatenating observations
   • Environment setting for accumulations
   • The check_expconf command
   • The concatenate command
6. Accumulating spectra, images, time profiles
   • Accumulating spectra
   • Accumulating images
   • Accumulating time profiles
7. Accumulating photon lists
8. Accumulating HK time profiles
   • HK parameter list
   • MECS HK parameter list
9. Cross-accumulating from photon lists
10. Special accumulations
    • Spacecraft HK time profiles
    • Auxiliary quantity calculation
11. Instrument specific corrections
    • MECS event corrections
    • LECS event corrections
    • HPGSPC event corrections
    • Gain history accumulation
12. Other corrections
13. Generation of time windows
    • Time window files
    • Graphical generation of time windows
    • Generation of intensity windows
    • Manual editing of time window
    • Merging time windows
    • Phase windows
    • Applying time windows
    • Visualizing time windows
14. Handling XAS files
    • Listing file headers
    • Listing file content
    • Editing the file header
15. Generation of response matrices
    • Environment setting for matrices
    • Instrument dependent matrix programs
    • RMFs and ARFs
    • Matrix file formats
16. Exporting XAS files to other packages
    • Using XAS images with SAOimage
    • Using XAS files in IDL
    • Exporting XAS files as ASCII files
    • Converting XAS files to/from plain FITS files
    • Converting XAS files to/from OGIP FITS files
    • Converting XAS files across different operating systems
17. Displaying XAS files graphically
    • Kind of graphics servers
    • Creating a server instance
    • Graphics environment variables
    • The xasplot command
    • The display command
    • The overtrace command
    • Controlling the server
    • Using a server from more sessions
    • Terminating a server
18. Analysis programs

Appendixes and Item lists

• A: List of XAS environment variables in alphabetic order
• B: List of XAS environment variables by subject
• C: List of XAS commands in alphabetic order
• D: List of XAS command by subject
• E: List of XAS program arguments in alphabetic order
• F: Contributed additional software
• *: printing remark (for PostScript version only)

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