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FTOOLS: The EXOSAT Sub-package

The EXOSAT sub-package of FTOOLS contains mission-specific tasks for the EXOSAT mission. These tools analyze the EXOSAT CMA data reformatted in FITS format, as available in the HEASARC archive.

The following EXOSAT tasks were released in the latest distribution of the HEASARC's FTOOLS package. Each task is hyperlinked to the help file distributed with the task. The same information can be obtained while running FTOOLS by typing the command fhelp {taskname}.

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
Create a list of event files via tk interface & run exomerge
exovig
Give the vignetting correction factor for the EXOSAT LE
FTOOLS HELP DESK

If FTOOLS has been useful in your research, please reference this site (https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftools) and use the ASCL reference for HEASoft [ascl:1408.004] or the ASCL reference for the original FTOOLs paper [ascl:9912.002]:

Blackburn, J. K. 1995, in ASP Conf. Ser., Vol. 77, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems IV, ed. R. A. Shaw, H. E. Payne, and J. J. E. Hayes (San Francisco: ASP), 367.