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Assigned Member (担当者)

2011-07-25 M.Suzuki

Name and Institute (質問者/機関)

RAJEEV RATN JAISWAL (Physical Research Laboratory)

Question (質問)

While creating ARF file an error had occurred as:

   xis_contami: reading
'/home/group1/rajeev/caldb/data/suzaku/xis/bcf/ae_xi0_contami_20091201.fits'
...
xis_contami: FORMAT_VERSION(2) not supported
xissimarfgen: reading estepfile 'estep-default.list'
xissimarfgen: estepfile 'estep-default.list' open failed
Fail to select CALDB file with the given criteria (at HDgtcalf.c: 142)
Unable to open CALDB index file (at HDgtcalf.c: 202)
Task xissimarfgen 2007-07-16 terminating with status -1


 and  no ARF  file has created . However,it(xisrmfgen) successfully
created RMF file.

 Please suggest any possible solution.

Answer from(回答の文責)

Suzaku Help Desk

Answer (答え)

The problem may be due to a mismatch between xissimarfgen and CALDB files. We recommend to update HEADAS package, because HEADAS version 6.3.1 is old.

Status (詳細なステータス)

2011-07-25 Accept
2011-07-26 Reso.
2011-07-26 Done.

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