\begin{table}%t2 \caption{\label{12745tb2}Relative differences between metal measurements made with the three EPIC instruments MOS1, MOS2 and {\it pn} computed over the whole sample. } \small%\centerline { \begin{tabular}{l c c c} \hline\hline {\it mekal} model & & & \\ \hline Metal $X$ & $(X_{\rm MOS1}-X_{\rm MOS2})/X_{\rm MOS2}$ & $(X_{\rm MOS1}-X_{pn})/X_{pn}$ & $(X_{\rm MOS2}-X_{pn})/X_{pn}$ \\ \hline Fe & $~~0.02\pm 0.01$ & $0.07\pm 0.01$ & $0.02\pm 0.02$ \\ $+3\%$ syst.err. & $~~0.02\pm 0.02$ & $0.04\pm 0.02$ & $0.01\pm 0.02$ \\ \hline Si & $~~0.01\pm 0.02$ & $0.19\pm 0.03$ & $0.10\pm 0.03$ \\ $+3\%$ syst.err. & $ -0.03\pm 0.04$ & $0.11\pm 0.04$ & $0.08\pm 0.04$ \\ \hline Ni & $ -0.12\pm 0.08$ & $0.14\pm 0.11$ & $0.01\pm 0.09$ \\ $+3\%$ syst.err. & $ -0.13\pm 0.08$ & $0.12\pm 0.11$ & $0.00\pm 0.10$ \\ \hline & & & \\ & & & \\ \hline\hline {\it apec} model & & & \\ \hline Metal $X$ & $(X_{\rm MOS1}-X_{\rm MOS2})/X_{\rm MOS2}$ & $(X_{\rm MOS1}-X_{pn})/X_{pn}$ & $(X_{\rm MOS2}-X_{pn})/X_{pn}$ \\ \hline Fe & $~~0.03\pm 0.01$ & $0.07\pm 0.01$ & $0.02\pm 0.02$ \\ $+3\%$ syst.err. & $~~0.02\pm 0.02$ & $0.04\pm 0.02$ & $0.01\pm 0.02$ \\ \hline Si & $~~0.01\pm 0.03$ & $0.22\pm 0.03$ & $0.13\pm 0.04$ \\ $+3\%$ syst.err. & $ -0.03\pm 0.05$ & $0.13\pm 0.04$ & $0.11\pm 0.04$ \\ \hline Ni & $ -0.16\pm 0.09$ & $0.13\pm 0.14$ & $0.01\pm 0.11$ \\ $+3\%$ syst.err. & $ -0.17\pm 0.10$ & $0.12\pm 0.14$ & $0.01\pm 0.11$ \\ \hline \end{tabular}} \smallskip For each element in the first line only statistical errors are accounted for, in the second line a $3\%$ systematic error is added in quadrature to each abundance measurement (see discussion in Sect.~4.3). \end{table}