A list of SAS tasks appears when typing the command sas which calls the SAS Graphical User Interface (GUI). A SAS task can simply be called (through its GUI) by double-clicking on its name. The use of the SAS GUI is explained in § 3. SAS tasks include:
A list of packages in alphabetic order or classified by groups is accessible at:
http://xmm.esac.esa.int/sas/current/doc/
For detailed descriptions of the tasks, the user is referred to the SAS package descriptions which can be accessed at the above address or via the SAS GUI help button. As a starting point, the user could read the package documentation of the list of frequently used tasks provided in Table 1.
| Task name | Task description |
|---|---|
| arfgen | Generates an EPIC ancillary response file |
| calview | An interactive viewer of the XMM-Newton calibration database |
| cifbuild | Creates a Calibration Index File for a given observation date |
| edetect_chain | EPIC source detection metatask |
| emproc | Fully configurable ``pipeline'' processing of EPIC MOS observation data files (ODFs) |
| epproc | Fully configurable ``pipeline'' processing of EPIC PN ODFs |
| evselect | Filters event lists and extracts images, spectra, timeseries and histograms |
| odfbrowser | Interactive graphical viewer of an XMM-Newton observation |
| omichain | Fully configurable ``pipeline'' processing of the OM imaging mode ODFs |
| omfchain | Fully configurable ``pipeline'' processing of the OM fast mode ODFs |
| omgchain | Fully configurable ``pipeline'' processing of the OM grism mode ODFs |
| rgsproc | Fully configurable ``pipeline'' processing of the RGS part of an observation |
| rgsrmfgen | Constructs an RGS response matrix file |
| rmfgen | Generates an EPIC response file |
| sas | Launch the SAS graphical user interface |
| srcdisplay | Display image overlayed with positions of detected sources |
| xmmselect | Interactive filtering and extraction of images, spectra, timeseries and histograms |