7.4.16 GT_PIX_SIZE


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7.4.16 GT_PIX_SIZE

 

The angular size of the SXT full-resolution pixel was determined from pre-launch focal length measurements to be 2.45280 arc sec for the X-ray telescope. Half- and quarter-resolution images are twice and four times this value, respectively. A routine to provide this number is GT_PIX_SIZE which is called as:
IDL> print,gt_pix_size()

IDL> print,gt_pix_size(index)
  If the SXT index or roadmap is passed in, the routine will return the appropriate pixel size in arc sec for the resolution of the data. The pixel size of the optical images is thought to be within 1% of the X-ray pixel size.


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