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An X-Ray Spectral Fitting Package User's Guide for Version 11. 3. X: by Keith Arnaud

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Title: An X-Ray Spectral Fitting Package User's Guide for Version 11. 3. X: by Keith Arnaud  
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Keith, A. (n.d.). An X-Ray Spectral Fitting Package User's Guide for Version 11. 3. X. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/


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Description: This document contains information regarding topics such as Walks through XSPEC, Brief Discussion of XSPEC Files, and Fitting Models to Data: An Example from EXOSAT...

Table of Contents
Contents 1 Introduction 1 1.1 XSPEC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.2 New in Version 11.3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.3 How to contact us . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.4 Relationship to HEAsoft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.5 History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.6 Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2 Spectral Fitting and XSPEC 5 2.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.1.1 The Basics of Spectral Fitting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.2 The XSPEC implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.2.1 C(I): The Observed Spectrum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.2.2 R(I,E): The Instrumental Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.2.3 f(E): The Model Spectrum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.2.4 Fits and Confidence Intervals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.3 Helpful Hints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.3.1 Scripts and the Save command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.3.2 How to return to the XSPEC?? prompt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.3.3 Simulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.3.4 Plotting Devices and Hardcopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.3.5 Data groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.3.6 What to do when you have small numbers of counts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2.3.7 Binning and Grouping data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2.3.8 How to shut XSPEC up (somewhat) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2.3.9 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 3 An overview of XSPEC 13 3.1 Command syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 3.2 Reading data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 3.3 Defining models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 3.4 Fitting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 3.5 Plotting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 3.6 Getting help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 3.7 Simulated data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 3.8 Fluxes, luminosities, equivalent widths, and line IDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 3.9 Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 i

 
 



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