Chandra-MARX / marx

Chandra X-ray Observatory ray-trace simulator
http://space.mit.edu/cxc/marx/
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support CC mode #23

Open hamogu opened 8 years ago

hamogu commented 8 years ago

Currently can maybe fake cc-mode by adjusting:

       ACIS_Exposure_Time       (make it small)
       ACIS_Frame_Transfer_Time (make it large)

While only a small number of Chandra observations are done in CC mode, they would often profit from MARX modelling because there is not image that helps with seeing what we see.

At a certain level, this could be done as a post-processing step similar to pile-up. However, CC mode and pile-up are possible at the same time. Maybe the easiest approach would be to turn "marx2fits" into a post-processing module that has "--pileup" and "--CC-mode" flags. On the other hand, this would deprecate the use of the MARX binary output (because one could not get CC mode binary output). I don't think that's a problem, but it should be considered.