Installing Software & Downloading Data
- CIAO 4.3 & CALDB ("Quick Installation" recommended)
- HEAsoft
- SAS
- Chandra data archive
- HEASARC data archive
Software Documentation
2011 Problem Sets
- Spectra of Cas A and its Compact Central Object
- Spectral Analysis of High Resolution X-ray Binary Data
- The Chandra Spectrum of a Spiral Galaxy
- Low-resolution X-Ray Spectroscopy of a Seyfert Galaxy
- Model-independent X-ray Mass Determinations
- How to Find and Identify Weak Emission Lines in a Stellar HETG Spectrum Using TGCat and WebGUIDE
- Compute coronal density of Capella using HETG data of Ne IX and known contaminant lines from Fe
- Statistics: Detecting Multiple Model Components with the Likelihood Ratio Test
- Timing Analysis of X-ray Lightcurves
- Source Detection and Sensitivity Map Generation for XMM Archival Data (Student-created project by Eilat Glikman)
2005 Problem Sets
- A sample of High Redshift Quasars [Bechtold et al.]
- Image an X-ray Jet Seen with Chandra [Siemiginowska et al.]
- Image a Spiral Galaxy Seen with Chandra [Kuntz et al., Pence et al.]
- Image a supernova remnant with Chandra [Gaetz et al.]
- Cluster with lensed quasar [Aldcroft & Green, Green et al.]
- A radial temperature pro le of the cluster A1835 with Chandra [Markevitch]
- XMM and Chandra observations of NGC4258 [Fruscione et al.]
- Density of X-ray Sources [Cappi et al.]