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Create an XSPEC compatible PHA FITS file

Write the contents of "*_obs.tab" to an ascii file using these parameter settings for the task 'tdump'.

cl> epar tdump table = "*_obs.tab"       name of table to dump
(cdfile = "STDOUT")       output file for column definitions
(pfile = "STDOUT")       output file for header parameters
(datafile = "out.asc")       output file for table data
(columns = "net")       list of columns to be dumped
(rows = "-")       range of rows to print
(pwidth = 80)       output page width
(mode = "ql")
cl
> tdump

>From the FTOOLS package, run 'ascii2pha' on the ascii file. cl> ftools
ft
> heasarc
These parameters should be set as follows. he
> epar ascii2pha
infile = "out.asc"       Please enter ASCII pha datafile
outfile = "marx.pha"       Please enter output filename
chanpres = no       Channel data present?
dtype = 1      Please enter input datatype 1 - counts, 2 - rat
qerror = no      Errors present?
rows = "-"      List of lines to be read in ASCII file
fchan = 1      First channel number present in ASCII file
tlmin = 1      First legal Detector channel
detchans = 4096       No. of legal Detector channels


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1998-06-10