CIAO: Chandra's data analysis system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6270, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Fruscione, Antonella ^a   McDowell, Jonathan C ^a   Allen, Glenn E ^b   Brickhouse, Nancy S ^a   Burke, Douglas J ^a   Davis, John E ^b   Durham, Nick ^a   Elvis, Martin ^a   Galle, Elizabeth C ^a   Harris, Daniel E ^a   Huenemoerder, David P ^b   Houck, John C ^b   Ishibashi, Bish ^b   Karovska, Margarita ^a   Nicastro, Fabrizio ^a   Noble, Michael S ^b   Nowak, Michael A ^b   Primini, Prank A ^a   Siemiginowska, Aneta ^a   Smith, Randall K ^c   Wise, Michael ^d   more..

^a SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d ASTRON   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Data analysis; Modeling and fitting; Software; X ray astronomy

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; OPTIMIZATION; PIPELINE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPACE TELESCOPES; X RAY ANALYSIS;

FOREIGN DATA FILES; MODELING AND FITTING; USER SCRIPTING PARADIGM; X-RAY ASTRONOMY;

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 33749361768     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.671760     Document Type: Conference Paper

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