Can I remove the jumps caused by attenuator and decimation state changes in a lightcurve?
There is no single autonomous way to make the corrections for attenuator and decimation state changes that works all of the time. There are many effects to correct for to obtain a good approximation of the incident photon flux vs. time in an energy band. How best to proceed depends on your scientific purpose. In most cases, corrected count rate lightcurves should suffice. These can easily be generated using the heuristic corrections available for the Observing Summary Data (count rates with 4-second time resolution in nine pre-selected energy bands). These corrections attempt to remove the effects of attenuator and decimation state changes only and do not give the photon flux. These simple corrections are approximate and should not be used in any quantitative analysis. There are several ways to retrieve these data: • Prepared plots of corrected count rates in nine energy bands for every orbit are available through the RHESSI browser (select Quicklook Plots). • In the RHESSI GUI, plot t
