Manuals & Memos

General | Imaging | Grating Spec | Scripting

The list below provides links to the CIAO manuals. The Proposer's Observatory Guide is available from the Chandra Proposal Information page. We also maintain presentations from the CIAO Workshops.

General

Chandra Coordinate Systems:
- Imaging (PS, 25 pages)
- Aspect Calibration (PS, 9 pages; draft version)
- Dispersed Spectra (PS, 5 pages; draft version)
Data Model:
- Introduction (PS|PDF, 34 pages)
- Principal DM Tools (PS|PDF, 43 pages)
- Virtual File Syntax (PS|PDF, 36 pages)
- Using the ASCII Kernel (PS|PDF, 8 pages)
Data Products Guide (HTML)
The Chandra ABC Guide to Pileup (PDF, 26 pages)

Imaging

Chandra Coordinate Systems: Imaging (PS, 25 pages)
Detect Manual (HTML) or PS (190 pages)
- Detect Manual data (tar.gz, 32 MB)
An Introduction to Exposure Maps (PS, 12 pages)
Chandra PSF Library (PS, 16 pages)
SAOImage ds9 Reference Manual (HTML)
Transformation, Convolution, and Deconvolution (PS, 79 pages)
How & Why (or Why Not) to Combine Data (PDF, 7 pages)

Grating Spectroscopy

Chandra Coordinate Systems: Dispersed Spectra (PS, 5 pages; draft version)
Analysis Guide for Chandra High Resolution Spectroscopy (HTML)
How & Why (or Why Not) to Combine Data (PDF, 7 pages)

Scripting

Python Programming Language website