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Question ID = 0072

Assigned Member (担当者)

2007-10-12 M.Nakajima
2007-10-22 Y.Terada

Name and Institute (質問者/機関)

T. Lehto (University of Helsinki, Finland)

Question (質問)

  1. I have a problem with xissimarfgen. I used source_mode = UNIFORM previously
    and that worked just fine without any problems. Now I would like to use
    source_mode = DETFITS, but I receive an error message:

    --------------------------------------------------
    failed to find or open the following file: (ffopen)
    /wrk/caldb/data/gen/caldb.indx
    --------------------------------------------------

    All the other parameters are same as in the working mode. I have only
    changed the source_mode option. I attached the file I used to drive
    xissimarfgen.

  2. I failed to run the xissimarfgen. It crashes without an error message, as shown here. I am using source_mode = DETFITS. I believe that the problem maybe has something to do with the image I am using. The FITS image is produced from the suzaku event file using xselect. It is unbinned, in detector coordinates and its size is 1024x1024. Do you have any suggestions?

Answer from(回答の文責)

(1) Helpdesk Japan.
(2) XIS team, Y. Ishisaki

Answer (答え)

The followings are the brief comments on your problem, and solved the problem (1). On question (2), there is a known bug in xissimarfgen with source_mode=DETFITS, and they will fix this bug in the next release of HEADAS package on November 2007.

Status (詳細なステータス)

2007-10-12 Accepted.
2007-10-17 First answer to question (1)
2007-10-17 add another question (2)
2007-10-24 done.

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