ASCA Calibration - Latest Files and Uncertainties

Calibration - General

• Calibration Uncertainties - updated 2001 February 13.

• ASCA calibration data - Links to the important calibration files with explanations.

Spectral Calibration

• Effect of Changes in the ASCA Calibration on Spectral Parameters - a comparison of old and current spectral calibrations, and the effects of using different calibrations.
• Simultaneous ASCA, RXTE and BeppoSAX Observations of 3C 273

• SIS Calibration Information Pages at ISAS.
• Parameterization of SIS Efficiency Loss in 1-CCD Mode
• The Latest CTI calibration file - this includes a preliminary calibration of the Non-linear Secular Evolution of the SIS CTI and the Updated Calibration of Non-uniform CTI (March 30, 2001).

• Status of the GIS gain calibration - updated 1999 Oct 21. See also GIS gain calibration of recent observations (this supersedes the 2001 April version) - 2002 Jun 26.

Temporal Calibration

• Timeconv improved
• Accuracy of the GIS Time Assignment (ASCANews 5).

Spatial Calibration

• Coordinate Update - Updated 2000 Oct. 20

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This file was last modified on Tuesday, 19-Oct-2021 16:18:00 EDT
Curator: Michael Arida (SP Sys); arida@milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov
HEASARC Guest Observer Facility

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