Data Caveats
This page contains warnings concerning the quality of data products in the Chandra Archive, grouped by instrument. For a more detailed description of the data products, visit the Data Products Guide.
All data received from the Chandra X-ray Observatory is processed through the standard data processing (SDP) pipelines at the Chandra X-ray Center. CIAO is designed for use with data with a processing version of "R4CU5UPD8" or "DS6.0.0" or higher; see the Note on Processing Versions for more information. To obtain the most up-to-date processing for a given observation, visit the Chandra Data Archive.
If you have any specific questions about your data, please email the Helpdesk.
- General
- The current Calibration Status Report
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- ACIS Pipeline-Processed Event Data
- ACIS Pipeline-Processed Mask Files
- Spectral analyses of ACIS data with a limited pulse-height range
- ACIS Onboard Event Filtering
- Degredation of Low Energy QE
- Clarification of time-related keywords in FITS header
- Time Keywords in Interleaved Data
- Zero-exposure Event File
- Incorrect Data Products for Jupiter (ObsIDs 2398,2399,2400,2401,2407,2408)
- Warm focal plane temperatures
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Extracting Spectra From Merged Datasets
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(7 Dec 2012)
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