RXTE Cook Book

RXTE GOF	The RXTE Cook Book Recipes for Data Analysis and Reduction	RXTE FAQ

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The RXTE Cook Book contains two kinds of step-by-step recipes intended to guide you through the various data reduction and analysis tasks:

End-to-end recipes outline all the steps from start to finish for "overall" tasks like "extracting a light curve from Good Xenon data over a given energy band."
Individual recipes are the building blocks of the end-to-end recipes. They give the steps for tasks like "selecting data by detector and anode."

With this distinction, users who already know how to to create a spectrum, say, can conveniently find out how to do an "extra" step like applying a deadtime correction. Where appropriate, the recipes reference complimentary information in the Getting Started Guide and The ABC of XTE. Next to each is a link to the PostScript version which is also available via anonymous ftp at heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/xte/doc/cook_book/. (There is also a gzipped tar file cotaining all the individual PostScript files.)

End-to-End Recipes

PCA

Reduction and Analysis of PCA Binned-Mode Data - (postscript)
Reduction and Analysis of PCA Event-Mode Data - (postscript)
Reduction of PCA Standard Mode 2 Data using XSELECT - (postscript)
Data Reduction using Rex Script
Reduction and Analysis of HEXTE Data - (postscript)
Working with the ASM Data Products - (postscript)

Individual Recipes

Preliminaries

Creating XTE filter files - (postscript)
Working with realtime data - (postscript)
Screening and selection
Background Subtraction and Other Calibration Issues
Data analysis
Miscellaneous

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Last Modified: 24-Aug-2022