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Method to convert X-ray count limit to X-ray fluence #2

Open aaronpearlman opened 10 months ago

aaronpearlman commented 10 months ago

In Amanda's current notes, she writes:

In order to compute , we will use pimms [Mukai 1993](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1993Legac...3...21M) to convert 1 count/s to X-ray flux for the \nicer, telescope, given the X-ray absorption (
;[HI4PI Collaboration 2016](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016A&A...594A.116H)) along the line of sight.

Don't we want to re-use the machinery we built for the M81R paper to convert from count limits to fluence limits using the NICER & XMM ARFs? Paul & I have code for this.

In other words, don't use PIMMS. We have something better that incorporates the response function at the time of each X-ray exposure.

cookamanda commented 10 months ago

We do, you're right. Worked on this this week based on code Paul shared with me from M81 paper.

Here is what I'm doing now (for XMM)

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