Starting with Xselect v2.0 much of the mission-dependence has been split out into a simple ascii file, xselect.mdb. Support for a new mission can be added to Xselect simply by including a new set of entries in this file. If a new mission requires particular ftools, different from the standard, then some changes in the Xselect source code will be necessary. For testing purposes it is possible to override the standard copy of xselect.mdb by setting an environment variable XSELECT_MDB to the new mission database filename.
Each line of the mission database file consists of a string of the form
The keyword dictionary is given below. Probably the best approach when adding a new mission is to copy the entries for the most similar one currently supported and edit as appropriate.
submkey The keyword read from the file to get the SubMission instkey The keyword read from the file to get the Instrument dmodekey The keyword read from the file to get the Datamode (All three of these keywords can be have a suffix (m:n) which means take characters m to n of the keyword value) detectors A list of the instruments modes A list of the datamodes mkf_def_expr The global expression for filenames of MKF files ofilt The default MKF filtering for valid files time The column in the events extension used for time timesys The zero for the time column tunits The units for the time column binsize The default bin size for light curves x The column for sky X-axis y The column for sky Y-axis xsiz The keyword giving the max. value of X ysiz The keyword giving the max. value of Y detx The column for detector X-axis dety The column for detector Y-axis detxsiz The keyword giving the max. value of DETX detysiz The keyword giving the max. value of DETY rawx The column for raw X-axis rawy The column for raw Y-axis rawxsiz The keyword giving the max. value of RAWX rawysiz The keyword giving the max. value of RAWY imagecoord The default coordinate system for images wmapcoord The default coordinate system for WMAPs ecol The column for spectral information phamax The keyword giving the max. value of ECOL events The name of the extension with event data gti The name of the extension with GTI table timeorder Yes if the events are in time order extract The ftool used to extract images, spectra, and light curves. Supported options are extractor and saextrct. spbn The binning factor for spectra wtmapb Yes if a WMAP is to be produced fbin The default binning for images hbin The default binning for WMAPs rbnval Number of channels to which spectra are binned catnum The extension number for catalog keywords lststr The global expression for event files catcol A list of keywords used to catalog events files dispcol A list of keywords used to display the catalog