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WFCHK

Extracts the counters present in a reduced housekeeping rates file .HKR together with the pointing information present in the aspect file .ATT into a series of arrays in an HDS file. The following arrays are stored at the top level of the o/p HDS file
TEVS
Total events output by the detector preamplifiers
VEVS
Valid events, i.e. TEVS within pulse height limits
LEVS
Limited events, i.e. VEVS within the electronic f.o.v.
AEVS
Accepted events, i.e LEVS entered into telemetry queue.
FEVS
Final events, i.e. AEVS telemetered to ground
RA
Pointing direction RA (degrees)
DEC
Pointing direction DEC (degrees)
The program gives the option of binning directly from an HKR file {i.e.} using the file start and end MJDs and intrinsic bin size of 8 secs) or using the bin structure from an existing time series dataset. In this latter mode the user may create arrays of background counts aligned with an existing bin structure.


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