total number of unique events in DR1

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dnelson
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total number of unique events in DR1

Post by dnelson »

If I merge all event files from the DR1 tiles with evtool, I get 172885752 events.

Can someone confirm this is correct, and that merging all the tiles in this way will indeed produce a unique list (e.g. with no duplicates)?
JeremySanders
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Re: total number of unique events in DR1

Post by JeremySanders »

I've never encountered anyone attempting to merge all the eRASS1 events into one FITS file with evtool. Please be aware that such large operations are currently untested by us!

However, through a separate method I obtain 172886925 events, which is very close to your number. This also agrees with Table 8 in Merloni et al., which gives the total number as 170 million.
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