A simulated HRI event list is generated from a set of user-specified source intensities, shapes and positions. The source specification is input into an iraf table using tcreate and the PROS-supplied format description. Please refer to the qpsim help file for detailed information on the source parameters. Briefly, they are: x, y, counts/rate, intensity (as counts/rate), prf-type, prf-parameter:
tt> tcreate name of table to be created: (source.lis) name of file containing column descriptions: (xspatialdata$srclst.cd) name of file containing data (STDIN): Give table data ... then newline & EOF to finish. 4096 4096 rate 0.5 ros_hri INDEF 5000 2500 counts 300 ros_hri 20 tt>
Once this table has been created, qpsim is run to generate the qpoe file: Note that the ``bad attribute name `time''' message can be ignored, see help file.
tt> qpsim Input source table file: source Reference QPOE file (xspatial$data/hdummy.qp): Root name for output files: simul ### Generating simulated data ### Beginning run of SIMEVT ... Using LIVETIME of 1000.00 seconds to determine source counts Source number 3 at position (INDEF, INDEF) falls outside of allowed field limits, [2048 : 6144]. Skipping this source ... SIMEVT all done. ### Creating QPOE with simulated data ### FITSNAME FILENAME DIMENS BITPI BSCALE BZERO O simul.fits null_image 0 BINTABLE simul.tab 2Cx800R 8bin QPEX Warning: bad attribute name `time' QPEX Warning: bad attribute name `time' QPEX Warning: bad attribute name `time' No GTI records in file - no TIME update done writing output file - simul_sim.qp ### Appending simulated data to reference QPOE ### ref file: RA: 9:00:00.0000 Dec: 45:00:00.0000 Roll: 0.0000 file # 2 RA: 9:00:00.0000 Dec: 45:00:00.0000 Roll: 0.0000 offsets(arcsec): RA: -0.0000 Dec: -0.0000 Roll: 0.0000 file # 2 xref: 4096.0000 yref: 4097.0000 offsets(pixels): xoff: 0.0000 yoff: 0.0000 Opening file #1 : xspatial$data/hdummy.qp QPEX Warning: bad attribute name `time' WARNING: no TSI records found in file #: 1 QPEX Warning: bad attribute name `time' No GTI records in file - no TIME update done No GTI records in file - no TIME update done file: 1 xspatial$data/hdummy.qp events: 0 times: 0.0 QPEX Warning: bad attribute name `time' No GTI records in file - no TIME update done No GTI records in file - no TIME update done file: 2 simul_sim.qp events: 800 times: 0.0 @simulapp.lst3840b (; 2 files, no exp.) -> simul.qp Creating QPOE output file: simul.qp Renaming output file : simul.qp tt>