Subject: Re: Proposal for smart event selection (AI30_18)


   Dear Niels and others,

> With respect to further filtering for zones of high 
 > background I think this could be left to the users.

   Do you mean analysis tool writers or users? How would
the latter do this in an efficient way, for 10s of
Science Windows at once?

> One type of background event which we may want to include in
> the 'smart' selection is external bursts of noise such as
> those we experience approaching the radiation belts. [...]

   Would that not be a natural for GTI selection, i.e. we
write a tool that in the GTI step checks for such noise
bursts and flags those times as bad?

   regards,
   Peter