Sherpa: A mission-independent data analysis application

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4477, Issue , 2001, Pages 76-87

  Freeman, Peter E ^a   Doe, Stephen ^a   Siemiginowska, Aneta ^a  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Chandra; CIAO; Data analysis; Fitting; Modeling; Virtual Observatory

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DATA REDUCTION; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

VIRTUAL OBSERVATORY;

ASTRONOMY;

EID: 0035767555     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.447161     Document Type: Article

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