title 2-Dimensional time-of-flight electron spectrometry: THE inner shell= excitations in rare gases and small molecules authors B. Langer1,2, E. Kukk1,3, A. A. Wills1, A. Farhat1, O. Nayandin,1 M.= Alshehri1, N. Berrah1, J. D. Bozek3, D. Cubaynes4, R. Hentges5, U. Becker5 affiliations 1Department of Physics, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan= 49008-5151, USA 2Max-Born-Institut f=FCr Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie,= Rudower Chaussee 6, D-12489 Berlin, Germany 3Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Advanced Light Source, University of= California, Berkeley, California 97420, USA 4Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Atomique et Ionique, URA 775, CNRS, Universit= =E9 Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay, France 5Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, D-14195= Berlin, Germany summary In order to study the threshold region of inner shell photoionization in= great detail we have combined our time-of flight (TOF) electron analyzers= with an advanced data acquisition and monochromator control program. This= allowed us to scan the photon energy in small steps over the Rydberg= resonances toward the threshold while taking complete electron spectra for= each photon energy. The 2-dimensional electron emission maps obtained by= such scans give insight into various processes occurring in the resonance= region and across the threshold.