_read_rmf

sunkit_spex.fitting_legacy.io._read_rmf(file)

Read a .rmf file and extract useful information from it.

Parameters:

file (str, file-like or pathlib.Path) – A .rmf file (see open for details).

Returns:

The low and high boundary of energy bins (data[‘energ_lo’], data[‘energ_hi’]), number of sub-set channels in the energy bin (data[‘n_grp’]), starting index of each sub-set of channels (data[‘f_chan’]), number of channels in each sub-set (data[‘n_chan’]), redistribution matrix [counts per photon] (data[‘matrix’]).

Return type:

tuple