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FTOOLS: The Einstein Sub-package

The Einstein sub-package of FTOOLS contains mission-specific tasks for the Einstein mission.

The following Einstein 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}.

Einstein 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