Hands-On Session Suggested Threads
Suggested Threads
These threads are a good place to start in the hands-on session. Beginners can get used to running CIAO, while intermediate users can look at specific types of analysis.
Beginners
- Introduction to the Data Products
- Introduction to the Data Model
- Introduction to Prism
- True Color Images
- Using psextract to Extract ACIS Spectra and Response Files for Pointlike Sources
- Introduction to ChIPS (basic plotting)
- Sherpa: Introduction to Fitting ASCII Data with Errors [thread renamed or removed]
- Sherpa: Introduction to Fitting PHA Spectra[thread renamed or removed]
Source Detection
- Overview: Detecting Sources in Imaging Observations
- Running celldetect
- Running vtpdetect
- Running wavdetect
- Using the Output of Detect Tools
- Estimate Source Counts in an Image
- Obtain and Fit a Radial Profile
Extended Source Analysis
- An Image of Diffuse Emission
- Weighting ARFs and RMFs: multiple sources
- True Color Images
- Obtain and Fit a Radial Profile
- Using merge_all to Compute ACIS Exposure Maps and Fluxed Images
Grating Analysis
- The threads for extracting grating spectra and making responses (gARF and gRMF files) are grouped by detector-grating combination on the Grating Spectroscopy threads page.
- Examining Grating Spectra and Regions: PHA2 files
- Create a Color Spectrum
- Extract Coadded and Grouped Nth-Order Source & Background Spectra and ARFs