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Trainee at the European Space Astronomy Center
What is it all about?
Gustaf Winroth
guswi241@student.liu.se
Link¨
oping University, Sweden
European Space Astronomy Center, Madrid, Spain
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The Center
• Closest bus stop - 2 km
⇒ Get a ride
• Cafeteria, where you eat
lunch
• Activity Clubs: football,
tennis, etc.
• Guards requiring ID and
ESAC badge the first
days
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The People
• Other Trainees
• The Supervisors
• The Staff at ESAC
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The Concept of the Project
The Phases:
• Read the documentation and learn the software
• Further confine the project with your supervisors
• Process the data
• Present the results
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My Project (1)
EPIC-pn can operate in different modes.
Energy spectra can be retrieved from each mode. These should
coincide, which is not always true.
Take a line-rich source such as Cassiopeia A
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My Project (2)
Differences between the two modes before the correction:
Energy Spectra − Cas A
Red − FF, Black − Burst w/ no corr.
0.1
1
counts (arb. units)
10
100
~/caldata/epchain/0412180101/CAS_A_burst.pha ~/caldata/0412180101/Cas_A_FF.pha
1
2
5
channel energy (keV)
gwinroth 17−Oct−2006 13:09
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My Project (2)
The two spectra after correction:
CasA − 0412180101
Red − Full Frame, Green − Burst w/ new corr.
10
1
normalized counts/sec/keV
100
try16/0412180101/CAS_A_burst_newcal16.pha 0412180101/Cas_A_FF.pha
0.1
Simple task ⇒ 6 months of work
1
2
channel energy (keV)
5
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