Welcome!
Here you can find all code used in the exercises, plots and analysis of the "Spectral Aspects of X-ray Spectral Analysis" textbook chapter for the Handbook of X-ray and Gamma-ray Astronomy, Section XVI, available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.05705 .
Each directory should contain a solution in PyXspec and Sherpa to each exercise, named either pyxspec.py or sherpa.py.
Keep these manuals handy:
- pyxspec extended tutorial https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/xanadu/xspec/python/html/extended.html
- pyxspec quick tutorial https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/xanadu/xspec/python/html/quick.html
- sherpa tutorials: https://asc.harvard.edu/sherpa/threads/index.html
- sherpa command reference: https://asc.harvard.edu/sherpa/ahelp/index_alphabet.html
- BXA: https://johannesbuchner.github.io/BXA/
For missing solutions to the exercises, contributions are welcome!
For issues or questions, please open a new issue.
- @pboorm
- @JohannesBuchner