NICER CALDB >> NICER Calibration Documents Document name Description Date nicer_caldb_v20180404 Document describing the CALDB format for all CALDB files 2018-04-17 Calibration Reports CALDB 20240206 NICER-xti20240206-Release-Notes.pdf Released Note for CALDB 20240206. 2024-02-27 NICER-Cal-Background-Params-20240206.pdf Describe the background mode released with CALDB 20240206. 2024-02-27 NICER-Det-Params-20240206.pdf Describe changes of the NICER Detector paramaters released with CALDB 20240206. 2024-02-27 NICER-Window-Transmission-20210707.pdf Describe changes for the Window Transmission released with CALDB 20240602. 2024-02-27 Calibration Reports CALDB 20221001 NICER-xti20221001-Release-Notes.pdf Released Note for CALDB 20221001. 2022-10-28 NICER-Cal-Background-Params-20221001.pdf New: Describe the calibration files for the different background models. Released with CALDB 20221001. 2022-10-28 NICER-Cal-Cal-Bad-Times-20221001.pdf New: Describe bad times to exclude in the NICER analyis. Released with CALDB 20221001. 2022-10-28 NICER-Cal-Energy-Scale-optmv13-20221001.pdf Update of the Energy scale calibration. Released with CALDB 20221001. 2022-10-28 NICER-Cal-SysErr-20221001.pdf New: Systematic error for spectra applied by the task niphasyserr. Released with CALDB 20221001. 2022-10-28 NICER-Det-Params-20221001.pdf Update of the PI noise paramater. Released with CALDB 20221001. 2022-10-28 NICER-Response-History-20221001.pdf Update to include the diagonal response to use for the background. Released with CALDB 20221001. 2022-10-28 Calibration Reports CALDB 20210707 NICER-xti20210707-Release-Notesb.pdf Released Note for CALDB 20210707. 2021-07-20 NICER-Cal-Energy-Scale-optmv12-20210707.pdf Energy scale calibration for CALDB 20210707. 2021-07-20 NICER-Response-History-20210707.pdf NICER Response History up to CALDB 20210707. 2021-07-20 NICER-Det-Params-20210707.pdf NICER Detector paramaters released with CALDB 20210707. 2021-07-20 NICER-Window-Transmission-20210707.pdf NICER Window Transmission released with CALDB 20210707. 2021-07-20 Calibration Reports CALDB 20200722 NICER-xti20200722-Release-Notesb.pdf Released Note for CALDB 20200722. 1st released on 2020-07-27. Amended on 2020-08-13 and 2020-08-25 2020-08-25 NICER-Cal-Energy-Scale-optmv-20200715a.pdf Energy scale calibration released with CALDB 20200722. 1st released on 2020-07-27. Amended on 2020-07-28 2020-07-28 NICER-Response-History-20200717.pdf NICER Response History valid up to CALDB 20200722 2020-07-27 Calibration Reports CALDB 20200202 NICER-xti20200202-Release-Notes.pdf Released Note for CALDB 20200202 2020-02-24 NICER-Cal-Energy-Scale-optmv7he-20190808.pdf Energy scale calibration released with CALDB 20200202 2020-02-24 NICER-Cal-Summit-ARF-2019.pdf Effective area ARF released with CALDB 20200202 2020-02-24 Calibration Reports CALDB 20180226 NICERDAS-CalibGuide-20180814 Updates on caveats of NICER calibration (doc released on 2018/08/14) 2018-08-14 nicer_calguide_v20180226 Caveats on the NICER calibration released with CALDB 20180226 2018-03-06

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