FTOOLS Help Files: filenames - Syntax for command-line processing of FITS files via filenames filetypes - Syntax for specifying the file medium (eg, disk or network) colfilter - Filename syntax for modifying column and keyword values imfilter - Filename syntax for extracting image subsections rowfilter - Filename syntax for filtering the rows of a FITS table binfilter - Filename syntax for producing histograms from tabular data calc_express - Description of calculator functions available for filtering fpack/funpack - FITS tile-compression & decompression tasks ASCA Mission-specific Tasks: add_sis_rmf - Reports percentage of counts in evtfile in each chip addascaspec - Combine ASCA spectral files ascaarf - Generates an ASCA ARF file for an input PHA file ascaeffmap - Generates an ASCA EFF detector image file for an input PHA file ascaexpo - Generate an exposure map for an ASCA observation ascalin - Produce the ASCA calibrated science file data products ascascreen - Cleans raw ASCA science files ascaray - ASCA mirror ray tracing program attitude - Compute summary information for an ASCA attitude file cleansis - Detect anomalous ASCA SIS pixel values and output the cleaned events file with a 'hot pixel' extension appended corpileup - Apply pileup correction to ASCA data correctrdd - Apply RDD correction to ASCA SIS FAINT, BRIGHT or BRIGHT2 data dfe2mkf - Insert output information of FAINTDFE into existing MKF file faint - Convert ASCA faint mode data to a bright mode format faintdfe - Calculate the dark frame error for SIS FAINT mode data fasttime - Corrects SIS FAST mode data times fastwmap - Add a WMAP to a FAST mode spectral file fmosaic - Create a mosaic of several ASCA observations fmosaic2img - Combine fmosaic output files into a single image ghkcurve - Extract light curve from ASCA GIS housekeeping file ghkdump - Display GIS housekeeping parameters of the GIS HK file gisrti - Compute Rise Time Invariant value in GIS PH mode science file gis3bitfix - Fix science files affected by the GIS3 3 bit LSB error Adapted to Perl from gis3bitfix.e gqaplot - ASCA GIS quick analysis ftool ldeadtime - Carry out deadtime correction for FITS light curves make_ascaray_images - Run the ftool "ascaray" sequentially for 300 energies from 0.1 keV to 12 keV mkdtime - Calculates the deadtime fractions for the GIS mkfilter2 - Produce an ASCA filter file for XSELECT mkgisbgd - Create exposure corrected blank sky spectrum and image from point-source removed blank sky event files offsetcoord - Offset a celestial coordinate pair sisclean - Plot frequency histogram of an SIS image file and apply an intensity threshold cut sisgbr - QDP fit branching ratios derived from FITS data sishist - Frequency histogram of an image created from an SIS event file sispi - Fills PI column of ASCA SIS event files sisrmg - Generate SIS instrument response matrix sqaplot - ASCA SIS quick analysis ftool temp2gain - Make a GIS gain history file in FITS format from FRF file timeconv - Convert from satellite to barycentric Attitude Tasks (Multi-mission): aberattitude - Correct an attitude file for aberration effects aberposition - Correct coordinates for aberration effects aberrator - Apply velocity aberration adjustments to attitude files applyxform - Transform a list of coordinates aspect - Calculate the mean pointing for an attitude file aspcorr - Update WCS reference value keywords in sky images attcombine - Merge two attitude files to represent the result of applying first one rotation and then the other; used primarily with det2att to apply corrections to a spacecraft attitude. attconvert - Converts attitude format attdump - Report the R.A., Dec, and Roll for an attitude file combinexform - Create or modify a transform coordevt - Convert events from one coordinate system to another coordinator - Convert raw coordinates to detector and sky coordinates coordpnt - Convert a single point or region file from one coordinate system to another cornymmik - calculates revised cutoff rigidity due to Nymmik et al. det2att - Convert detector coordinate offsets to rotations det2att2 - Converts detector coordinate offsets and rotations to attitude quaternions draw_teldef - Produce a PostScript plot of coordinates described by a teldef calibration file expomap - Generate an exposure map geomagterp - Interpolate geomagnetic quantities getwcs - Extracts the WCS keywords for a teldef file coordinate system getxform - Extract a transform between coordinate systems in a teldef file imagetrans - Apply a coordinate transform to an image imagexform - Transform an image from one coordinate system to another makefilter - Create a filter file from Housekeeping files pointxform - transforms coordinates from an input coordinate system to one or more output coordinate systems prefilter - Derive attitude and orbit related quantities transform_wcs - Modify WCS keywords according to a transform CALET Tasks: cgbm_bstgti - Find time intervals in an input FITS event file that characterize start and stop of a burst detected by a specific CGBM detector. cgbm_speclc - Extract spectra and light curves from an input FITS event file within a time interval associated with a burst detected by a specific CGBM detector. cgbm_findrmf - Find and optionally retrieve from the CGBM CALDB the appropriate RMF files for specific time, position (RA and DEC), detector, gain and attitude file. caletversion - Report version string for CALET package Calibration Database Tasks: addarf - Adds two or more Ancillary Response Files (ARFs) addrmf - Adds together two or more RMFs calcrpsf - Calculates a radial point spread function caldbflag - switches flag status of calibration files in a CIF caldbinfo - Checks whether a local CALDB is correctly installed chkcif - Check entries in a Calibration Index File cifcadd - add a new column, CAL_ORIG, to a CIF cmppha - Converts a TYPE II to a TYPE I OGIP pha file [See also the newer task ftcmppha] cmprmf - Compress RMF by removing response below a threshold [See also the newer task ftcmprmf] col2img - Converts a collimator response dataset to an image crcif - Creates an empty Calibration Index File dmprmf * [Now part of HEASPTOOLS as a wrapper to ftdmprmf] gcorpha * [Now part of HEASPTOOLS as a wrapper to ftgcorpha] gcorrmf * [Now part of HEASPTOOLS as a wrapper to ftgcorrmf] genrsp * [Now part of HEASPTOOLS as a wrapper to ftgenrsp] lstgood - List "good" files found in a Calibration Index File marfrmf - Multiplies an ancillary response file by a redist matrix mkcaldb - Create a Calibration Database mkcaldir - Create the Caldb directory structure mkcalinit - Create a caldbinit file mudcif - Many UpDates to a Calibration Index File (CIF) quzcif - Interrogates Caldb for location of a dataset quzcif2 - Eventual replacement for quzcif which adds the ability to specify a particular version of the caldb.indx file. rbnrmf * [Now part of HEASPTOOLS as a wrapper to ftrbnrmf] rbnrpsf - Rebins a radial point spread function rpsf2eef - Converts a radial PSF (RPSF) dataset to a radial encircled energy function (REEF) dataset rpsfqdp - Converts OGIP format radial profile file to ASCII QDP rsp2rmf * [Now part of HEASPTOOLS as a wrapper to ftconvoldrsp] st2rpsf - Reads STWFITS file and writes an OGIP RPSF file stcal - Stores one or more calibration files in the Caldb udcif - Adds a calibration file to a CIF Einstein Specific FITS Tasks: sssarf - creates an Ancilliary Response File (ARF) for Einstein SSS PHA data sssbck - builds the EINSTEIN SSS background PHA files for a given source obsn EXOSAT Tasks: automerge - Create a list of compatible event files and run exomerge cmadead - Correct EXOSAT CMA lightcurves and images for deadtime exoleuv - Estimate the stellar UV count rate for different CMA filters exomerge - Merge files from a given observation. Update coordinates exopha - Create one channel spectrum for the EXOSAT CMA tkexomerge - [Tcl/Tk script] Create a list of event files via Tk interface & run exomerge exovig - Give the vignetting correction factor for the EXOSAT LE FITS Image Tasks: chimgtyp - Changes data type (BITPIX) of an image array f2dhisto - Make a 2-D histogram from 2 columns in a table fadapt - Convolve a FITS image with an adaptive top hat filter farith - Perform arithmetic on 2 FITS images fboxcar - Convolve a FITS image with a rectangular boxcar filter fcarith - Perform arithmetic on FITS image with a constant fexpoadapt - Adaptively smooth an image and an exposure map together fgauss - Convolve a FITS image with an elliptical Gaussian function fim2lst - Convert a 2D image to a pixel list (inverse of f2dhisto) fimg2tab - Copies the image pixel values into a (binary/ASCII) table extension fimconcat - Take 2 images and place them side by side as single image fimgbin - Rebin a FITS image using a rectangular bin size fimgdmp - Dump contents of a FITS image (see also ftlist) fimgextract - Extract a (vector) column from a table or a subset from an array, optionally summing over the rows fimgmerge - Merge any number of images onto a given image fimgstat - Compute statistics of an image (see also ftstat) fimgpar - Edit FITS image pixel values (see also ftedit) fimgtrim - Reset image pixels with values above/below threshold values fimhisto - Creates a histogram of the image extension florentz - Convolve a FITS image with an elliptical Lorentzian function flst2im - Create an output FITS image file from input list file containing a list of the coordinates and respective values fmaskfilt - Filter an event list based on an input mask image fmedian - Convolve a FITS image with a median value within an user defined rectangular box fmrgmsk - Merge 2 or more spatial masks fparimg - Write a task parameter value to a FITS image pixel fregcon - SAOimage region file converter from one instrument/detector to another fsaoi - Translate an SAOImage region file to an input file for fselect fvec2img - Create an image from a column of vectors Futils (General Purpose Utilities) Tasks: [See the HEATOOLS section below for newer versions of many Futils] cphead - Copy a header from one FITS file to another FITS file faddcol - Copies columns from one FITS table extension to another fappend - Append a FITS extension onto another FITS file fapropos - Does keyword searches for FTOOLS fcalc - Calculates values for a column using an arithmetic expression fcatdiff - Compares columns of a fits file and reports row differences fchecksum * [Now part of HEATOOLS as a wrapper to ftchecksum] fcollen - Modify the vector length of a column in a binary table fcolpar - Returns column number for an input filename and column name fcopy * [Now part of HEATOOLS as a wrapper to ftcopy] fcreate * [Now part of HEATOOLS as a wrapper to ftcreate] fcurve - Make a light curve histogram from a column in a table fdelcol - Delete a specified column in a FITS table fdelete - Delete a FITS file fdelhdu - Delete an extension from a FITS file fdelrow - Delete specified rows in a FITS table fdiff * [Now part of HEATOOLS as a wrapper to ftdiff] fdump - Dump contents of a FITS table (see also ftlist) fextract - Copy a FITS extension from a file into a new file ffilecat - Copies keyword values from a list of FITS file to FITS Table fgui - Run FTOOLs from a GUI fhelp - Display FTOOLS help information fhisto - Make a histogram of a column in a table fimgcreate * [Now part of HEATOOLS as a wrapper to ftimgcreate] finterp - Interpolate a column from one FITS table extension into another fkeypar * [Now part of HEATOOLS as a wrapper to ftkeypar] fkeyprint - Display keyword(s) in FITS header(s) (see also ftlist) fkeytab - Copy a FITS header keyword to a FITS table element flcol - List column information in a FITS table (see also ftlist) flist - List contents of a FITS table (see also ftlist) flookup - Filter a FITS file from selection based on a lookup table fmemsort - Fast memory sort of a FITS table fmerge - Merge rows from several FITS tables into one FITS table fmodcomm - Modify commentary header keywords (see also fthedit) fmodhead - Modify the header keywords in a FITS file (see also fthedit) fmodtab - Edit FITS tables (see also ftedit) fparhelp - Provides help for a specified parameter for a given ftool fparkey - Edit a FITS header keyword (see also fthedit) fparstamp - Copy contents of a .par file into a FITS file header fpartab - Edit FITS tables (see also ftedit) fplot - Plots columns from a FITS file using QDP/PLT Plot Package fselect * [Now part of HEATOOLS as a wrapper to ftselect] fsort - Sort a FITS table in place fstatistic - Calculate statistics of a column (see also ftstat) fstruct - List the structure of a FITS file (see also ftlist) fsumrows - Sum or average values from list of table columns over spec. rows ftabcopy - Copy columns from one FITS table to another (see also ftpaste) ftabkey - Copy a FITS table element to a FITS header keyword ftabpar - Copy a FITS table element to a parameter value fv - An interactive GUI FITS file browser and display tool fverify * [Now part of HEATOOLS as a wrapper to ftverify] fversion - Report FTOOLS version number and release date GRO (Gamma Ray Observatory) Specific Tasks: barytime - Reads EGRET event files and performs user-selected cuts on photon direction, energy and quality screening parameters, producing an output list with a column containing the solar-system barycenter corrected photon arrival times bcmppha - Converts BATSE PHA files to a format readable by XSPEC bcont - Reads one or more (contiguous) BATSE daily data sets for plotting, interactive time cuts, statistical tests bod2pha - Makes XSPEC PHA file from BATSE occultation data bod2rmf - Makes XSPEC RMF file for BATSE occultation data bodfluxhis - Extracts light curve from BATSE Earth occultation data bodgetvp - Gets viewing period info from BATSE occultation data bpulsarspec - Reads BATSE pulsar database files and displays the hardness ratio vs. phase or time, flux vs. phase eaddmap - Add or subtract two EGRET maps econvpha - Converts EGRET .spec files to XSPEC .pha files econvrmf - Converts EGRET .resp files to XSPEC .rmf files emapgen - Converts a photon list (qvp file) to a counts map fbbft2pha - Converts BATSE BFITS file to spectral PHA file fbdrm2rmf - Converts BATSE DRM file to RMF format fesdb2rdf - Reads i/p QVP and EXP (optional) data files and writes an o/p FITS data file in OGIP standard format fevpbtoa - Converts Fits formatted Comptel EVP data to an ASCII file groview - Display BATSE, COMPTEL and EGRET viewing angles for user selected range of viewing grppha2 - Manipulates OGIP standard TYPE II PHA FITS file intmap - Generates EGRET intensity and exposure maps like - Performs Maximum Likelihood analysis of EGRET sky maps specmat - Contstructs XSPEC compatible spectral data file and response matrix from source flux and position information generated by the "like" program HEAO1 Mission-specific Tasks: a2source - Find HEAO1 A2 raw rate files for a given sky position a2lcurve - Extract lightcurve from HEAO1 A2 rate data dsdlcurve - Extract scanning profile from HEAO1 A2 DSDISK data HEAGEN (High Energy Astrophysics) Multi-mission tools: arftable - Create an ancillary response function (ARF), or effective area file from the output events from the raytracing code xrtraytrace, not including any detector efficiencies barycen - Apply barycenter corrections to X-ray timing data barycorr - Generalized multi-mission barycenter correction tool burstfinder - Find time intervals in an input FITS binned lightcurve that characterize start and stop of a burst eeftable - Create an encircled energy function (EEF) file based on the output history file from the raytracing tool xrtraytrace ftadjustgti - Perform filtering and normalization of good time interval (GTI) mkintensfilt - Calculate GTIs based on a light curve and an intensity selection rebingausslc - Rebin an irregularly sampled light curve (such as BAT or ASM) xrtraytrace - Perform raytracing simulations of X-ray telescopes, calculating photon paths, PSF, EEF, and effective area xrtreftable - Calculate the probability of reflection and transmission of a ray upon a surface, and mass absorption coefficients for mirror surface HEASARC (High Energy Astrophysics) Specific Tasks: addspec - adds PHA spectra, bkgd files & combines response matrices arf2arf1 - convert a Type 2 ARF file to a Type 1 ARF file ascii2pha - Creates an OGIP FITS PHA file from an ASCII dataset bincurve - Bins vectors and outputs as a light curve binspec - Bin spectra in vector columns chkarf * [Now part of HEASPTOOLS as a wrapper to ftchkarf] chkpha * [Now part of HEASPTOOLS as a wrapper to ftchkpha] chkrmf * [Now part of HEASPTOOLS as a wrapper to ftchkrmf] ecd2pha - Converts Einstein HEASARC CD-ROM PHA to OGIP PHA file extractor - Extracts products from input events files extrpsf - Extracts radial PSF (RPSF) dataset from an event file fadmap - Produce maps for SAS2 or COSB data fixregion - Convert SAO region file to another coordinate system fovdsp - Display ISDC format reference catalog and INTEGRAL or Swift fields of view on Galactic or Equatorial coordinates, aitoff or tangential projections. FITS images may also be displayed getocctimes - Calculate occultation times of a source as seen from an orbiting observatory due to the Earth blocking the source grppha - Manipulates OGIP standard PHA FITS file gtisum - Compute and list information on Good Time Intervals hkexpand - Expand a compressed format housekeeping (HK) data file hkscale - Scales a FITS housekeeping data file into physical values hkunexpand - Compress an expanded format houskeeping (HK) data file mathpha - Performs mathematical operations on PHA files nh - Return hydrogen column density for a given Ra and Dec pileest - Create an estimated pileup fraction image from an event file rbnpha * [Now part of HEASPTOOLS as a wrapper to ftrbnpha] searchflickpix - Search for anomalous 'flickering' pixels in event files from CCD-type detectors sf2pha - [Deprecated] Converts SF format PHA file to OGIP FITS format sky2xy - Transform from sky to pixel coordinates using WCS keywords spibkg_init - Initialize input database for XSPEC "spibkg" models used in spectral deconvolution of INTEGRAL/SPI data xy2sky - Transform from pixel to sky coordinates using WCS keywords HEASIM Tasks: heasim - Multi-mission high-energy astrophysics simulation tool skyback - Simulates the total, broadband, discrete and diffuse high-energy astrophysical background HEASPTOOLS tasks: ftaddarf - Add input ARF files with specified weights ftaddrmf - Add input RMF files with specified weights ftascii2pha - Create an OGIP standard PHA file from a text file ftchkarf - Check the validity of a FITS arf file ftchkpha - Check the validity of a FITS pha file ftchkrmf - Check the validity of a FITS response file ftcmparf - Convert a type 2 ARF file to a type 1 ARF file ftcmppha - Convert a type 2 pha file to a type 1 pha file ftcmprmf - Compress RMF by removing response below a threshold ftconvoldrsp - Convert old-style SF format response matrices to FITS ftdcmprmf - Decompress RMF to use non-variable-length FITS columns ftdmprmf - Displays OGIP standard Response FITS file ftflx2tab - Convert an input text file with one or more model spectra to an XSPEC table model file ftflx2xsp - Create spectra and response files from an input text file of fluxes and errors ftgcorpha - Remap PHA channels from SPECTRUM extension ftgcorrmf - Remap a detector redistribution matrix in channel or energy space ftgenrsp - Generic spectral response generator ftgrouppha - Modify the GROUPING column in a pha file using a number of possible criteria ftmarfrmf - Multiply/divide a detector redistribution matrix by an ancillary response dataset or a scalar ftmkfiltrsp - Read an input text with a filter response to make a single channel response matrix ftmkpha - Convert the test version of the old pha format to standard FITS format ftmkrsp - Convert the test version of the old rsp format to standard FITS format ftrbnarf - Physically compress (rebin) an ARF dataset in energy-space ftrbnpha - Physically compress (rebin) a PHA dataset in channel-space ftrbnrmf - Physically compress (rebin) an RMF dataset in channel-space and/or energy space ftrgsrmfsmooth - Smooth an XMM RGS response matrix for an extended source ftrsp2rmfarf - Split an RSP file into an RMF and an ARF ftsdss2xsp - Create spectra and response files for XSPEC from an SDSS spectral file ftstripnegchan - Remove negative channel numbers from a response matrix file ftVOtable2xsp - Create spectra and response files for XSPEC from VOtable spectrum HEATOOLS tasks: ftappend - Append a copy of an HDU from one file onto another file ftcalc - Calculate values in a table column ftchecksum - Verify or update the checksum keywords in a FITS file ftcmpheap - Compress the heap in variable-length columns of a FITS table extension ftcoco - Convert between galactic, equatorial and ecliptic coordinates ftconvert - Convert a fits table into another format ftcopy - Copy a file, applying optional filters ftcreate - Create a FITS table from ASCII template files ftdelhdu - Delete a HDU in a FITS file ftdelrow - Delete rows from a table ftdiff - Display differences between 2 FITS files ftedit - Edit one or more image pixels or table elements ftemplate - Create a FITS file from an ASCII template file fthedit - Edit one or more header keywords fthelp - Display FTOOLS help information (same as "fhelp") ftimgcalc - Perform arbitrary image computations ftimgcreate - Create a FITS image from an ASCII data file ftmgtime - Merge two or more GTI FITS files ftinsert - Insert a HDU from one file into a second FITS file. ftjoin - Join the columns of two tables according to a matching criterium ftkeypar - Read a keyword and copy its value to the parameter file ftleapsec - Calculate number of leap seconds at requested epoch ftlist - List the contents of the input file ftmeld - Merge (append) rows from multiple input tables into a single output table, more flexible than ftmerge ftmerge - Merge rows from multiple input tables into a single table ftmergesort - Sort the rows in a very large FITS table ftpaste - Merge columns from 2 input tables into a single table ftpixcalc - Combine FITS images ftselect - Copy selected rows from the input table to a new table ftselfjoin - Search for matching entries within a single table ftsort - Sort rows in a table ftstat - Calculate statistics of images or tables ftverify - Check that a file conforms to the FITS format ftversion - Report version number of the HEATools package Hitomi Mission-specific Tasks: ahgtigen - Create and/or merge GTI files ahmodhkext - Merge extensions of FITS file into single extension ahscreen - Screen a science event file hitomiversion - Report Hitomi software version Mission Applications: aharfgen - Make an ancillary response function (ARF) file for the SXS or SXI, or a response matrix (RSP) file for the HXI ahbackscal - Correct BACKSCAL keyword in a spectrum extracted with XSELECT ahcalcl32ti - Compute L32TI from S_TIME ahcalctime - Rerun the timing tools on an output directory from the pipeline ahexpmap - Generates an exposure map for HXI, SXI, and SXS, or a flat field image for SXI and SXS ahfilter - Generate an EHK file and a MKF filter file ahgainfit - Calculate the time-dependent energy gain corrections using known calibration lines ahmkehk - Extract and calculate parameters from orbit and attitude (EHK) ahmkregion - Creates regions files showing the field of view of all HITOMI instruments ahmktim - Calculates the relation of Time Invariant vs Time and the GTI for when the GPS is on ahpipeline - HXI/SGD/SXS/SXI reprocessing tool ahsxtarfgen - Creates an ancillary response file (ARF) for the SXS + SXT-S or SXI + SXT-I, accounting for the telescope effective area and detector efficiencies ahtime - Calculate times and populate the TIME column for all science and housekeeping data ahtimeconv - Convert mission time in different formats ahtrendtemp - Calculate the quartz clock frequency vs temperature relation for the on-board clock HXI/SGD Applications: cams2att - Computes a time-dependent delta-attitude file cams2det - Calculate offsets and rotations in HXI coordinates using CAMS telemetry input camssim - (1) Simulates motion of the Extensible Optical Bench (EOB) for testing CAMS-correction. (2) Generates RAW coordinates associated with given HXI ACT coordinates and the simulated motion hxievtid - Reconstructs HXI events hxigainfit - Calculate the HXI time-dependent energy gain corrections for events from comparison with known calibration lines hxinxbgen - Create a Non-X-ray Background (NXB) spectrum for HXI hxipipeline - HXI reprocessing tool hxirspeffimg - Creates a combined effective are and spectral response matrix ("RSP" file) and/or a flat-field corection image, for the HXI1 + HXT1 or HXI2 + HXT2 combinations, accounting for the telescope effective area, detector efficiencies, and CAMS motion hxisgddtime - Calculate and correct for deadtime HXI and SGD spectra and lightcurves hxisgdexpand - Expand HXI and SGD SFF occurrences to have one signal in each row hxisgdmerge - Merge slew and pointing raw (unprocessed) event files for the HXI or SGD hxisgdpha - Calibrates the HXI or SGD PHA for each signal in the SFF event file hxisgdsff - Converts an HXI or SGD First FITS File (FFF) into the Second FITS File (SFF) hxisgdshield - Extract lightcurves or spectra from shield data of HXI or SGD sgdarfgen - Calculate SGD transmission ratio for a source on the sky and create arf file sgdevtid - Reconstruct SGD events sgdgainfit - Calculate the SGD time-dependent energy gain corrections for events from comparison with known calibration lines sgdpipeline - SGD reprocessing tool SXI Applications: sxiflagpix - Flag pixel STATUS for SXI event data sxigainfit - Calculate the SXI time-dependent energy gain corrections for events from comparison with known calibration lines sximodegti - Create GTI excluding dead time for each SXI observing sxinxbgen - Create a Non-X-ray Background (NXB) spectrum for SXI sxiphas - Merge inner 3x3 and outer 5x5 pulse height columns in SXI event list sxipi - Calculate pulse invariant (PI) values and assign grades for SXI events sxipipeline - Calculate pulse invariant (PI) values and assign grades for SXI events sxirmf - Create an SXI energy Redistribution Matrix File (RMF) SXS Applications: mxsgti - Create MXS GTI files mxstime - Calculate the times of the MXS start and stop and generates coarse and fine GTI files sxsanticolc - Extract SXS antico light curve(s) and spectra using optional screening criteria sxsanticopi - Assign PHA and PI columns to the SXS anticoincidence events sxsbranch - Compute rates, branching ratios, and effective exposure times for each SXS event grade for an input real or simulated file, or based on a count rate sxsextend - Rerun tasks sxspha2pi, sxsperseus (if necessary), and ahscreen in order to produce SXS event files in extended energy mode sxsflagpix - Flag SXS events for antico and MXS event coincidence, temporal proximity, and crosstalk sxsgain - Calculate the time-dependent energy correction for SXS events from comparison with known calibration lines sxsmkrmf - Create an SXS RMF file and/or an RSP file for selected SXS pixels and grades sxsnxbgen - Create a Non-X-ray Background (NXB) spectrum for SXS sxsperseus - Remove differential gain error and fiducial gain error sxspha2pi - Calculate the PI for the SXS event files sxspipeline - SXS reprocessing tool sxspixgti - Create SXS GTI files sxsregext - Extract SXS data products from an event file using a region and selection of grades sxsrmf - Create an SXS RMF file for selcted SXS pixels and grades with weighting factors sxssamcnt - Calculate the local time in the SXS files necessary to assign time sxsseccor - Correct PHA for secondary events sxssecid - Associate SXS secondary events to the primary and allow to recalculate event grades IXPE Mission-specific Tasks: ixpeadjmod - Remove spurious modulation of IXPE event files ixpeaspcorr - [Python] Correct for residual aspect errors ixpeboomdriftcorr - Corrects for modeled boom drift errors using a specific state vector and event time stamps ixpecalcarf - [Python] Corrects an on-axis ARF or MRF file for off-axis vignetting and extraction radius ixpecalcfov - [Python] Calculate a map of the nominal sky FOV for each detector ixpecalcstokes - Calculate the Stokes parameters of IXPE event files ixpechrgcorr - [Python] Apply the charging correction for IXPE event files ixpedet2j2000 - [Python] Transform event positions & Stokes parameters from detector to sky coordinates ixpeeventviewer - [Python] Display images of raw event tracks with the event barycenter, absorption point, and initial electron direction overlaid ixpeevtrecon - Reconstruct events of IXPE event files ixpeexpmap - [Python] Create an exposure map from aspect solution data ixpegaincorrpkmap - Calculate PI column values of IXPE event files ixpegaincorrtemp - Calculate PHA_T column values of IXPE event files ixpeinterptemp - [Python] Fills temperature data gaps in an IXPE Level 1 DU housekeeping file using linear interpolation over gaps less than a given maximum duration ixpemkevt2gti - [Python] Combines event, housekeeping, and attitude time intervals into the GTI for Level 2 Event files ixpeplot_polarization - [Python] Plots Stokes parameters and MDP99 from ixpepolarization output ixpepolarization - [Python] Calculate Stokes parameters for a user-defined region ixpeversion - Report IXPE software version ixpeweights - Calculate event-by-event weights of IXPE event files MAXI Mission-specific Tasks: mxdownload_wget - Search and retrieve the archived MAXI data for a given sky position and time interval mxextract - Extract source event from multiple HEALPix event files mxgrmfgen - Generate the response matrix file for GSC instrument mxgscandat - Calculate the time to when a source is in each of the GSC FOV detectors mxgtiwmap - Calculate a weighted spatial distribution of events on the detector mxlscan - Calculate a source lightcurve mxproduct - Generate the high level products (images lightcurves spectra and response) for both instruments mxscancur - Determine the source position relative to the GSC or SSC instrument mxsrmfgen - Generate the response matrix file for SSC instrument mxsscandat - Calculate the time to when a source is in SSC instrument FOV mxversion - Print the MAXI software package version NICER Mission-specific Tasks: niautoscreen - Perform standard NICER per-FPM and per-MPU screening nibackgen3C50 - Generate 3C50 estimate of NICER background spectrum nicaldbver - Report NICER Calibration Database (CALDB) version nicerarf - Calculate NICER effective area (ARF) nicercal - Apply standard calibration to NICER observation nicerclean - Apply standard NICER screening nicerl2 - Apply NICER Level2 standard calibration and filtering nicerl3-lc - NICER full standard light curve analysis chain nicerl3-spect - NICER full standard spectral analysis chain nicermergeclean - Merge NICER MPU data and apply standard screening nicerpi - Apply gain calibration to NICER event file (calculate Energy/PI) nicerrmf - Calculate NICER response (RMF or RSP) nicertimecal - Apply clock calibration to NICER event file nicertimeconv - Basic time conversion for NICER time values nicerversion - Report NICER software version niexposum - Display NICER per-detector exposure niextlc - Extract standard NICER light curve from event file niextract-events - Fast event filtering, similar to extractor niextspect - Extract standard NICER spectrum from event file nifpmsel - Screen NICER event data by FPM (detector) nigeodown - Download and install geomagnetic quantities nigti - Create NICER GTI from time list nihaloem - Estimate Galactic Halo & Local Hot Bubble emission nimaketime - Create standard NICER screening GTI nimkfmerge - Merge NICER filter files (combine .mkf) nimpucal - Apply standard NICER calibration to MPU data nimpumerge - Merge NICER event data from multiple MPUs (or observations) niobsmerge - Merge NICER observation products niphaquality - Apply QUALITY markers to NICER spectrum niphasyserr - Apply NICER spectral systematic error vector niprefilter - Create NICER-specific filter file niprefilter2 - Create augmented NICER-specific filter file niprelflarecalc - Calculate precipitating electron flaring index niprelflaregti - Estimate GTI of PREL flares niprescreen - Perform prescreening of NICER data niscorpeon - NICER SCORPEON background modeling tools (niscorp*): niscorplc - Estimate NICER SCORPEON background model for light curves niscorpspect - Estimate NICER SCORPEON background file niscorpspectmod - Estimate NICER SCORPEON background model nispaceweather - NICER space weather background modeling tools (nisw*): niswbkglc - Estimate NICER Space Weather background light curve niswbkgspect - Estimate NICER Space Weather background spectrum nitargdet - Calculate target position in NICER instrument coordinates nivignette - Calculate NICER vignette profile for target position NuSTAR Mission-specific Tasks: nuattcorr - Correct NuSTAR attitude file nubackscale - Apply backscale correction to NuSTAR energy spectra nucalcpha - Correct energy, calculate PHA and assign event grades for NuSTAR event files nucalcpi - Calculate PI column values of NuSTAR event files nucalcpos - Convert Raw coordinates into Detector coordinates of NuSTAR event files nucalcsaa - Calculate SAA passages for NuSTAR nucoord - Convert Raw coordinates into Detector and Sky coordinates of NuSTAR event files nuexpomap - Generate exposure maps for NuSTAR event nufilter - Create a NuSTAR filter file from HK data running 'prefilter' and 'makefilter' nuflagbad - Flag events for bad pixels in NuSTAR event files nuflagevt - Flag events according to various cuts criteria in NuSTAR event files nuhotpix - Search for hot and flickering pixels in NuSTAR event files nulccorr - Apply livetime correction to NuSTAR light-curves nulivetime - Apply the dead time correction to the temporal keywords of the NuSTAR event files numetrology - Process the metrology data for NuSTAR numkarf - Generates an ARF file for an input PHA file for NuSTAR numkrmf - Generates an RMF file for an input spatial region file for NuSTAR nupipeline - Run in sequence the tasks for NuSTAR data processing nuproducts - Extract high-level data products from a Level 2 event file for NuSTAR nuscreen - Generate GTIs and use them together with event properties selection to screen NuSTAR event files nuskypos - Calculates SKY position of the optical axis, of the aperture stop center and of the DET1 reference pixel for NuSTAR nuskytodet - Calculates DET1 and DET2 coordinates of a SKY pixel for NuSTAR nusplitsc - Split NuSTAR Spacecraft Science (SC) cleaned event files nuversion - Report version string for NuSTAR package OSO8 Mission-specific Tasks: osofindfast - Find OSO8 raw rate files for a given sky position osorat - Extract lightcurve from OSO8 raw rate data (B&C detector) osopha - Extract spectra & lightcurve from OSO8 pha data (B&C detector) ROSAT Mission-specific Tasks: abc - Apply Barycentric Corrections to ROSAT event data ao - Evaluates the geometrical variation of the scattered solar X-ray background bct - Produce a Barycenter Correction Table from ROSAT orbit data calcbgdcor - Calculates the correction for background calculation of source spectrum castpart - Cast model particle background counts in sky coordinates detect - detects sources from an image file extpha - Extracts source spectrum files from PSPC _src files fixrev0pha - Changes the CDELT1 and CDELT2 keywords in a ROSAT PHA file gevt2rdf - Converts a German _events dataset to RDF _bas format hiback - Creates _qsrc file from _src file hriaspcor - Use Morse's method to correct aspect errors hriexpmap - Creates exposure map for given ROSAT HRI observational dataset hrifilt - Creates a ROSAT HRI makefilter file hrirpsf - Calculates theoretical HRI PSF img2us - Converts from German Image file format to US RFITS format lte - Evaluates the polynomial fit made by RATEFIT routine mkqsrc - Adds extra fields for quality screening to ROSAT source file mk_allevt - Combines standard & rejected events tables of an RDF file pcarf - Generates a ROSAT PSPC ARF for an input PHA file pcbgdcor - performs background calc. for ROSAT [runs pcparpha, pcarf,fixregion,calcbgdcor) pcexpmap - Creates exposure map for ROSAT PSPC observation pcfilt - Creates a ROSAT PSPC makefilter file pcparpha - Generates a background PHA spectrum for ROSAT PSPC pcrpsf - Calculates a theoretical radial PSF for the ROSAT PSPC rate - Creates light curves binned on 30-s intervals for the seven bands ratefit - Fits PSPC light curves in seven broad pulse-height bands rosbary - Perform barycentric correction for ROSAT. (Runs abc & bct) roscc2utc - converts spacecraft time to utc with MJD,yyyy-mm-dd:hr:min:sec src2pha - Creates a PHA file from specified extensions in an RDF src file srcdetect - Source detection which runs xselect and then detect tilt - Evaluates the nominal scattered solar X-ray background Suzaku Mission-specific Tasks: HXD Instrument-specific tasks hxdarfgen - Generate the HXD arf files of PINs hxdbsttime - Fill the BST_FRZD_TM keyword in header of the BURST FITS hxddtcor - Calculate the dead time correction for PHA files hxdgrade - Fill the GRADE column for the WELL FITS hxdgsoxblc - Calculate the GSO source(+background) and background lightcurves hxdgsoxbpi - Calculate the GSO source(+background) and background spectra hxdgtigen - Give the GTI to remove the telemetry saturation intervals hxdmkbstlc - Make lightcurve(s) from the HXD Burst event file hxdmkgainhist - Calculate gain history files for HXD WELL_PIN and WELL_GS events hxdmkgainhist_gso - Calculate gain-history for HXD WELL_GSO; Used within hxdmkgainhist hxdmkgainhist_pin - Calculate gain-history for HXD WELL_PIN; Used within hxdmkgainhist hxdpi - Fill the HXD PI columns for the WELL FITS hxdpinxblc - Calculate the PIN source(+background) and background lightcurves hxdpinxbpi - Calculate the PIN source(+background) and background spectra hxdscltime - Fill the TIME column for the WELL FITS using SCLTIME & TI hxdtime - Fill the TIME column for the WELL FITS using WELTIME & TI hxdmkwamgainhist - Produce a gain history file for the TRANSIENT FITS hxdwamgrade - Fill the GRADE column for the TRN FITS hxdmkwamlc - Make lightcurve(s) from the HXD WAM event file hxdwampi - Make gain correction for the TRANSIENT FITS hxdmkwamspec - Make spectra from the HXD WAM event file hxdwamtime - Fill the TIME column for the TRANSIENT FITS XIS Instrument-specific tasks xis5x5to3x3 - Convert onvert XIS 5x5 mode event file into 3x3 mode xisarfgen - Calculate the XIS arf xiscontamicalc - Calculate parameters relevant for the XIS OBF contaminant xiscoord - Calculate the ACT, DEC, FOC & sky X/Y for XIS event files xisgtigen - Write GTI after checking saturated frames and jumps in the frame time xisllegtigen - Generate a FITS file of good time interval (GTI) that does not suffer from incorrect light leak estimation (LLE) xisnxbgen - Estimate the XIS non X-ray background xispi - Calculate the XIS PI and grade values from PHAS xisputpixelquality - Put pixel quality code (PIXEL_QUALITY or STATUS) for each XIS event xissim - Generate a simulated XIS event file using output of mkphlist xissimarfgen - Calculate the ARF using the XRT ray-tracing simulator xistime - Time assignment for Burst mode, P-sum mode or Window Option xisucode - Assign the micro-code related keywords General Suzaku tasks aeaspect - Calculate mean satellite Euler angles for Suzaku aebarycen - Apply barycenter correction to Suzaku EVENT and HK files aecoordcalc - Coordinates Calculator for Suzaku aemkehk - create an extended HK file from attitude and orbit files aemkpinudhk - Calculate PINUD count from HXD HK for the NXB estimator aemkreg - Generate a ds9 region file for given satellite Euler angles aepipeline - Re-process the XIS, PIN and GSO data to produce cleaned event files aetimecalc - Mission Time Calculator for Suzaku mkphlist - Photon list generator for xissim suzakuversion - Report version string for Suzaku package Swift Mission-specific Tasks: BAT Instrument-specific tasks batbinevt - Compute mask weighted light curves or spectra from BAT event data batcelldetect - Perform source detection using the sliding cell method batclean - Read in a DPI and clean out a fit to the diffuse background batdetmask - Retrieve BAT gross detector quality map from CALDB batdph2dpi - [OBSOLETE] compress a 3-d image cube in a FITS binary table along the first (energy) dimension to create a 2-d image batdph2pha - [OBSOLETE] Read in a BAT Detector Plane Histogram and output a file containing a spectrum for each detector batdrmgen - Compute BAT detector response matrix for a known source position bateconvert - Read in an event file and apply energy conversions baterebin - Read in a survey DPH and rebin the energy spectra using quadratic corrections batfftimage - Make sky image from detector plane image by FFT deconvolution batglobalgti - Retrieve BAT global science analysis times batgrbproduct - Perform standard BAT GRB processing bathotpix - Locate and mask out hot pixels in a BAT detector image batid2xy - Convert between detector ID and x/y position in the BAT array batimgstatpos - Compute celestial coordinates for BAT image status packets batmasktaglc - Derive light curves from mask tagged rate packets batmaskwtevt - Compute mask weights for an event file batmaskwtimg - Compute mask weights for the entire detector BAT plane batoccultgti - Compute BAT good time intervals due to occultation batoccultmap - Compute BAT exposure mask due to occultation batphasimerr - Estimate statistical errors for simulated BAT spectrum batphasyserr - Apply BAT spectral systematic error vector batsumdph - [OBSOLETE] Add specified rows in a BAT_DPH table and generate a new, single-row BAT_DPH extension batsurvey - Perform processing on BAT Survey DPH data battblocks - Estimate interesting Bayesian Blocks and burst durations for time-variable data battsplit - Split a good time interval into smaller parts batupdatephakw - Update BAT ray tracing columns in spectral files batwarpimg - Correct BAT sky image for known imaging distortions UVOT Instrument-specific tasks uvot2pha - Create a pha file from a UVOT image and region files uvotapercorr - Aperture correction for Swift-UVOT source count rates uvotapplywcs - Perform coordinate translations as given by WCS keywords uvotaspcorr - Find aspect corrections for UVOT sky images uvotattcorr - Adjust attitude file with information from UVOT aspect corrections uvotbadpix - Create pixel quality maps for UVOT images uvotcentroid - Locate the centroid of a source on a UVOT image uvotcoincidence - Perform coincidence loss correction uvotdetect - Detect sources in a UVOT image uvotevgrism - Filter a UVOT grism event list and determine wavelength uvotevtlc - Make a background-subtracted light curve from UVOT event data uvotexpcorr - Swift/UVOT exposure time correction uvotexpmap - Generate exposure maps for UVOT sky images uvotflatfield - Perform flat-fielding on UVOT images uvotflux - Convert source count rates to magnitudes and flux uvotgraspcorr - Aspect correct UVOT grism images uvotgrplot - Plot UVOT grism spectra uvotimage - Create UVOT level 2 images uvotimgrism - Extract UVOT grism spectra uvotimsum - Sum UVOT sky images or exposure maps uvotinteg - Determine centroid/area/sum for an image region uvotlc - Create level III light curve from Level II UVOT data uvotlss - Calculate large scale sensitivity corrections uvotmag - [OBSOLETE] Use uvotcoincidence/uvotflux instead uvotmaghist - Make a light curve from the exposures in a UVOT image file uvotmodmap - Correct UVOT images for modulo-8 spatial fixed-pattern noise uvotoptsum - Optimally coadd UVOT images uvotpict - Create a finding chart image uvotpipeline - Run UVOT analysis software uvotproduct - Create level III science products from Level II UVOT data uvotrmfgen - Create a UVOT response matrix uvotscreen - Filter a UVOT event list uvotsequence - List and visualize UVOT observing sequences uvotshiftpha - Shift a UVOT PHA in time assuming a power-law decay uvotskycorr - Attempt to aspect correct UVOT sky images uvotskylss - Create and sum large scale sensitivity maps uvotsource - Instrumental source magnitude derived from UVOT image uvottfc - Swift/UVOT TDRSS finding chart processing uvotunicorr - Perform user-guided aspect correction of a sky image XRT Instrument-specific tasks xrtcalcpi - Fill or update PI column in XRT event files (PC, WT and PD modes) xrtcentroid - Calculate source centroid for a given area (box) using XIMAGE xrtevtrec - Reconstruct events, calculate PHA and assign grade for WT and PD modes xrtexpocalc - Generate exposure map from sky coordinates instrument map xrtexpocorr - Apply vignetting correction to sky coordinates instrument map xrtexpomap - Generate exposure maps for XRT Photon Counting mode event files xrtfilter - Run 'prefilter' and 'makefilter' to create a filter file from housekeeping data xrtflagpix - Flag events for bad pixels and calibration source location xrtgrblc - Swift XRT GRB light curve extraction task xrtgrblcspec - Swift XRT GRB light curve fitting/spectral analysis task xrthkproc - Process XRT housekeeping header packets file xrthotpix - Search for hot and flickering pixels for XRT Photon Counting mode xrtimage - Subtract bias and clean bad pixels in XRT Imaging Mode data xrtinstrmap - Build the RAW intrument map xrtlccorr - Generate rate correction file and corrected PC/WT light curve xrtmkarf - Generate an ARF file for an input RMF file xrtpcbias - Correct the bias subtracted on-board for PC mode xrtpccorr - Correct on-ground PHAS values for data taken in Photon Counting mode xrtpcgrade - Calculate the PHA values and assign event grades xrtpdcorr - Subtract the bias to the event PHA values taken in Photodiode mode xrtphascorr - Re-order the pixel telemetered in the PC PHAS array xrtpipeline - Run in sequence the tasks for XRT data processing xrtproducts - Generate high level product data files from a cleaned event file xrtscreen - Generate GTIs and use them (and other criteria) to perform event screening xrttam - Perform attitude correction to detector coordinates using the TAM device xrttdrss - Process XRT TDRSS messages xrttdrss2 - Process new XRT TDRSS messages (telemetry patches f and g support) xrttimetag - Assign event arrival times and fill DETX/DETY columns for Windowed Timing and Photodiode modes xrtversion - Print the version and date of the Swift-XRT subpackage xrtwtcorr - Correct on-ground the bias for data taken in Windowed Timing mode General Swift tasks attjumpcorr - Correct Swift attitude files for jumps swiftround - Perform rounding on a multi-extension FITS file swifttime - Swift time system converter swiftversion - Report overall version number and date of entire HEADAS/Swift package swiftxform - Perform image tansformations on a multi-extension Swift image file swtimecorr - Apply clock correction to Swift files (with option to convert to UTC) Time Related Tasks: burst - Remove bursts of events from time ordered event list cktime - Checks that a time column is time ordered day2time - Convert time offset (in days) relative to a reference date/time to an absolute date/time deadtime - Update the exposure of PHA file by deadtime based on GTIs fltime - Filter an event list within given time intervals (GTIs) gticolconv - Merge or split GTI based on specified 'column' and 'direction' gtiinvert - Create a gti file by inverting the time intervals of an input gti file maketime - Calculate time intervals (GTIs) from housekeeping (HK) data mgtime - Merge 2 or more time interval (GTI) files sec2time - Convert time offset to absolute time time2day - Calculate time (days) between input and reference date/time time2sec - Convert absolute time to a time offset VELA5B Mission-specific Tasks: fvelalc - Creates a FITS light curve for an isolated Vela 5B source fvelmap - Creates a set of FITS source maps of a rectangular region fvelgallc - Creates multiple light curves for sources in confused fields velabox - Lists the Vela 5B raw data files needed for FVELALC velamap - Lists the Vela 5B raw data files needed for FVELMAP XIMAGE Tasks: ximage - Multi-mission X-ray image display and analysis program mkcolor - Generates true color image mkhratio - Generates hardness-ratio image XRONOS (Time Series Analysis package) Tasks: ascii2flc - Create a xronos input FITS file from an ASCII file autocor - Calculate auto correlation for a time series crosscor - Calculates cross correlation of two time series earth2sun - Change times to solar system barycenter efold - Create epoch folded lightcurve, hardness and color-color plots efsearch - Find best chi-squared period by folding over range of periods flc2ascii - Dump xronos input or output in ASCII file readable by QDP lcmath - Subtract or add two binned lightcurves lcstats - Calculate statistical variables a time series lcurve - Create lightcurves, hardness and color-color plots listdata - List data file on the screen powspec - Create power spectrum density rbf2fits - [Deprecated] Convert the "EXOSAT rate buffer" format in FITS timeskew - Calculate time skewness function for a time series xronwin - Create a window file suitable for xronos tasks XSELECT: xselect - Interactive program to examine input event files, filter these to include events of interest, then create data products for further analysis XSPEC tasks: xspec - Interactive program to fit models to spectra mekal - Generate XSPEC table file for MEKAL plasma emission model raysmith - Generate XSPEC table file for Raymond-Smith plasma emission model kbmodels - Create XSPEC table model files based on one of the XSPEC NEI models by Kazik Borkowski XSTAR Tasks: xstar - Calculate photoionized model xstar2xspec - Generates table models from the results of multiple XSTAR simulation runs which can then be utilized for model fitting in XSPEC. XTE Mission-specific Tasks: addshots - Adds shot noise to an input light curve addsine - Adds a sine curve (or a user-defined periodic function) to an existing timing FITS file asmappend - Reads in an ASM master file and a series of files that are sorted and appended to the master file asmchannel - Separates an ASM color file into separate light curve files for each ASM energy channel asmsrcupdate - Runs ASMAPPEND on a collection of XTE ASM master files and their respective incoming files bemerge - Merges XTE binned event spectral files chantrans - Translates relative channel range to an absolute channel range by reading XTE produced .pha files correctlc - Corrects lightcurves for variance in number of active PCUs decodeevt - Decodes event keywords in XTE Science Event files edsgcor - Converts the PCA/EDS Gain & Offset (ASCII) file to FITS format fakelc - Creates a fake light curve given a mean count rate. The output may be either an event list or a binned light curve fasebin - Bins observations of a periodic signal into a two-dimensional histogram of phase vs. energy [PHA-type II FITS ("fB") file] faxbary - An alternative to fxbary for barycenter-correction fbadd - Adds several commensurate fB files together fbfsum - Averages fB files in phase, by summing rows together fbssum - Allows averaging of fB files in energy and performs phase analysis fbsub - Subtracts a baseline (unpulsed contribution) from an fB histogram fcollect - First half of XTEFILT, which creates a filter file for an observation based on housekeeping, attitude and orbit data fxbary - Reads XTE light-curve, science array, or science event data files and either adds a new column BARYTIME (as the last column) which gives the barycentric time for this data, or overwrites the TIME column grosstimefilt - Filters out all times that fall outside a specified range and modifies appropriate keywords in a XTE SA or SE file gti2xronwin - Converts a GTI file (or extension) to a XRONOS-format time filter file, i.e., *.wi file hextebackest - Estimate background for HEXTE Cluster A hxtarf - Computes and applies the HEXTE collimator response to produce a .arf file for a HEXTE spectrum (.pha) hxtback - Reads a HEXTE science or housekeeping FITS file and creates new FITS files based on cluster position hxtdead - Corrects a HEXTE spectral or light curve FITS file for detector dead time, including correction for time lost to the rocking motion. The program is applied to .pha or .lc files produced by seextrct or saextrct from a single FITS file hxtlcurv - Produces background-corrected HEXTE lightcurves hxtrsp - Produces response matrix for a HEXTE spectrum (PHA file) make_se - Creates XTE/SE (Event) data files from a list of input files which may contain Good_Xenon and/or Transparent Mode data files mkgtif - Creates GTI extension file for HEXTE data pca_bs - Performs rough PCA lightcurve background subtraction pcabackest - Creates an estimated PCA background spectrum for a specific observation from the background model created by the PCA instrument team pcaclrsp - Creates a collimator corrected light curve for an XTE PCA input light curve pcadeadcalc1 - Calculates deadtime for PCA Standard1 file pcadeadcalc2 - Calculates deadtime quantities for a single PCA Standard2 file pcadeadspect2 - Computes PCA dead-time correction for a PCA Standard2 spectrum pcaextlc1 - Extract PCA Standard2 light curve and background, and optional deadtime correction pcaextlc2 - Extract PCA Standard2 light curve and background, and optional deadtime correction pcaextspect2 - Extracts a PCA Standard2 spectrum and applies corrections for deadtime, number of active PCUs, and optionally calculates the corresponding PCA response matrix pcagainset - Inserts PCA/EDS gain and offset values into a PCA .pha file pcamergeobsids - Merges multiple 'pcaprepobsid' directories into one pcaphasyserr - Apply systematic error for PCA spectrum pcaprepfile1 - Prepares deadtime quantities for a PCA Standard1 file pcaprepfile2 - Performs standard background and dead-time calculation tasks for a single PCA Standard2 file pcaprepobsid - Prepares one XTE observation for PCA analysis pcarmf - Creates a .rmf file for an specified anode chain (i.e. combination of layers) in a given PCU pcarsp - Runs the tools necessary to construct response matrices for XTE PCA spectral data perdgrm - Computes the periodogram (a discrete fourier analysis) on light curves which are comprised of binned intensities at unevenly spaced time intervals proc2pcu - Pre-process RXTE/PCA binned-mode data files containing two separate channels of PCU data to produce files that are compatible with saextrct rddescr - Obtains channel and gain information from an input XTE .pha file rebinlc - Rebins lightcurves by integer multiple of TIMEDEL recofmi - Reconstructs an FMI from subdirectories' FMIs which may be nested one level or two levels deep rex - Makes preliminary products and then extracts data; i.e. filter files, GTIs, lists of data files, background data files and lists, lc and pha files runpcabackest - Runs PCABACKEST on a series of StdMode2 data files sa2phaII - Converts a Standard Mode 2 Science Array (SA) file into a type-II PHA file sachip - Runs SAEXTRCT and FPLOT once from command line saexpd - Reads science array vectors and outputs generic FITS files saextrct - Creates lightcurve and/or spectrum from Science Array files saplot - Cyclically queries the user for additional SA files and then runs SAEXTRCT and FPLOT (for SOF use) sbmerge - Combines concurrent single-bit (SB) mode data and creates an output file in Science Array (SA) format sebitmask - Creates bitmask for filtering SE data with FSELECT seexpd - Reads science events data and outputs generic FITS files seextrct - Creates lightcurve and/or spectrum from Science Event data sefilter - Helps the user generate an expression that is fed into SEBITMASK and examines the result to determine if the file can be directly input into SEEXTRCT for filtering, or if it first needs to be input to FSELECT seplot - Cyclically queries the user for additional SE files and then runs SEEXTRCT and FPLOT (for SOF) seselect - Runs SEBITMASK and FSELECT to generate a FITS file sumpha - Adds individual .pha files and merges GTI extensions timetrans - Translates relative time range to an absolute time range by reading XTE produced .lc files trans2fits - Creates science event FITS file from Transparent Mode data vle2fits - Creates science event FITS file from VLE Mode data xdf - The GUI XTE data finder xenon2fits - Creates science event FITS file from Good Xenon data xpcaarf - Creates a .arf file for an input XTE PCA .pha and .rmf file xsut - GUI front-end to GNUtar for selective untarring of XTE data distribution tapes or data archive tar files xtecol - Applies the HEXTE collimator correction to a light curve xtederive - Second half of XTEFILT, which creates a filter file for an observation based on housekeeping, attitude and orbit data xtefilt - Creates a filter file (.xfl) for a given RXTE observation xteversion - Prints the version and date of the XTE subpackage Parameter File Manipulation Tasks: pcheck - Check a parameter file for errors pconfig - Configure parameter files to user defaults pget - Get the value of one or more parameters in a parameter file plist - List parameters from one or more IRAF-style parameter files pquery - Get the value of a parameter in an IRAF-style parameter file pquery2 - Get the value of a parameter in an IRAF-style parameter file pset - Set one or more parameters in an IRAF-style parameter file punlearn - Get a copy of the system parameter file User Utilities: hpyupdate - HEASoftPy patch installer hwrap - Create a wrapper environment for HEASoft tasks to prevent environment clashes with other software packages (e.g., XMM-SAS, CIAO) Developer Utilities: aht - Generate a unit test for an Ftool aht_caldb - Utility for defining and running unit tests with a configured calibration database (CALDB) hdmk - Generate a Makefile for an Ftool Misc.: scat - List catalog sources in a region on the sky (uvotgrblc)