International Workshop on Astronomical X–Ray Optics
Prague 2010
Poster details
The eROSITA NRTA software
Presenter: Ingo Kreykenbohm
We present an overview of the Near Real Time Analysis (NRTA) software of the future X-ray scanning mission eROSITA. The two main purposes of the NRTA are to provide a quick scientific analysis and to perform health checks of the incoming data as early as possible to ensure the scientific quality of the data and to identify possible problems of the instrument. As a first step, the NRTA pipeline will decode the telemetry stream and write the event and housekeeping information to separate FITS files. In a second step, the health checks will be performed and resulting detector and housekeeping graphs will be displayed. The third step is to run the eROSITA standard pipeline to obtain sky images, source catalogs, and spectra. The NRTA software makes use of an event driven pipeline that can be configured using an XML interface. We present the design of the pipeline and show example graphs.
C. Grossberger
M. Wille
C. Schmid
J. Wilms
H. Brunner
G. Lamer