Pipeline Processing

The pipeline has been run on all MPC1 mode pointed observations; in this mode data have full spectral resolution (48 channels), at the expense of a lower time resolution (16 seconds at low bit-rate). Over 80% of all Ginga observations were made in MPC1 mode. The pipeline is shown in figure 1 and is described below. All observations have been subject to careful quality assessment, and a simple quality flag is added to each observation record (see section 3).

• Data Selection within sortac
• Gain
• Data Selection post-sortac
• Background Estimation
• Attitude Correction
• Spectral Fits
• Light Curves