Dear Suzaku Users,
Having incorporated the latest calibration results, Suzaku XIS team has developed the XIS RMF generator ftool "xisrmfgen", which considers secular degradation of the XIS energy resolution to calculate time-dependent XIS response. Xisrmfgen is currently being tested on multiple platforms by Suzaku GOF at NASA/GSFC.
Responding to strong demands of the early release and considering its scientific merits, Suzaku team has decided to make a beta-release of xisrmfgen (only executable on limited platforms) to interested Suzaku users, in particular to those planning to present early results at the December Suzaku conference in Kyoto. Until xisrmfgen is released in the official ftools package from NASA/GSFC, please obtain the beta-version from here:
Also, please find that new XIS calibration files have been released in the HEASARC CALDB on Nov 2, 2006 taking into account the latest calibration. Please obtain these latest CALDB files from NASA/GSFC to use xisrmfgen. In particular, the following XIS calibration files are essential to calculate precise XIS responses using xisrmfgen (NEW), xissimarfgen, xiscontamicalc and xissim (in HEAsoft 6.1.1):
Here are some explanation of the improvements of the new calibration files/responses.
Please try new "xisrmfgen", and report problems or feedbacks to the Suzaku help desk in Japan (English | Japanese).