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Assigned Member (担当者)

Takayuki Tamura

Name and Institute (質問者/機関)

Takayuki Yuasa (The University of Tokyo)

Question (質問)

When processing an XIS event file using xselect 2.4a in HEADAS 6.9, the software says that it cannot find "Datamode" for Suzaku XIS, and does not read the event file.

Below is an example using RT Cru data with HEADAS 6.9.

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yuasa@galileo[event_cl]$ echo $HEADAS
/usr/local/heasoft/heasoft-6.9/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-libc2.5

yuasa@galileo[event_cl]$ xselect
** XSELECT V2.4a **

> Enter session name >[xsel]
xsel:SUZAKU > read e ae402040010xi0_0_5x5n066a_cl.evt ./
Could not find keyword for Datamode for SUZAKU NONE XIS0
Got new mission: DATA_DIR
> Reset the mission ? >[yes] no
No files added
2. Unable to open FITS file /work-galileo/home/yuasa/work/suzaku/ss/rtcru/data/402040010/xis/event_cl/
Fitsio Error no.: 108
2. Unable to open FITS file /work-galileo/home/yuasa/work/suzaku/ss/rtcru/data/402040010/xis/event_cl/
Fitsio Error no.: 108

Getting Min and Max for Energy Column...
Got min and max for PI: ***** 0

No files added
xsel:SUZAKU > quit
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The error does not occur in xselect 2.4a
distributed with HEADAS 6.8. The following
low shows successful example in 6.8.

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yuasa@galileo[event_cl]$ echo $HEADAS
/usr/local/heasoft/heasoft-6.8/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-libc2.5

yuasa@galileo[event_cl]$ xselect
** XSELECT V2.4a **

> Enter session name >[xsel]
xsel:SUZAKU > read e ae402040010xi0_0_5x5n066a_cl.evt ./

Notes: XSELECT set up for SUZAKU
Time keyword is TIME in units of s
Default timing binsize = 16.000

Setting...
Image keywords = X Y with binning = 8
WMAP keywords = DETX DETY with binning = 8
Energy keyword = PI with binning = 1

Getting Min and Max for Energy Column...
Got min and max for PI: 0 4095

Got the minimum time resolution of the read data: 8.0000
MJDREF = 5.1544000742870E+04 with TIMESYS = TT
Number of files read in: 1

******************** Observation Catalogue ********************

Data Directory is: /work-galileo/home/yuasa/work/suzaku/ss/rtcru/data/402040010/xis/event_cl/
HK Directory is: /work-galileo/home/yuasa/work/suzaku/ss/rtcru/data/402040010/xis/event_cl/


OBJECT DATE-OBS DATE-END EDITMODE
1 RT CRU 2007-07-02T 2007-07-03T 5x5

xsel:SUZAKU-XIS0-STANDARD > (omit the rest...)
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I found a similar report on
Dr. Takayuki Tamura's weblog at
http://tamura-job-log.blogspot.com/2010/04/xselect-error.html
He has tried ObsID 801038010, and got the
same error message as above.

Do I have to set any parameter (Datamode)
to xselect or to the data, or just stay with
HEADAS 6.8?

I appreciate if you can tell me how fix the
problem on HEADAS 6.9.

Answer from(回答の文責)

Takayuki Tamura

Answer (答え)

See http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/software/lheasoft/bugs.html .
Replace old xselect.mbd file if you downloaded and installed HEADAS 6.9 prior to 1 April 2010.

Status (詳細なステータス)

2010-4-15 accepted
2010-4-17 done

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