M.Elvis/SDSP Group Leader D.Davis/SDSP CXC Grating LSF Library & Tools Technical Reference C.Canizares/MIT-CXC Director
F.Seward/User Support Group Leader

Transmission Grating Line Spread Function:

Library and Tools Technical Reference

The purpose of this document is to provide a technical reference for the LSF/RMF reference data and software for analysis of the transmission grating data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO) and a summary of the LSF/RMF tools for the gratings and the RMF derived from the LSF reference data as they currently exist. The target audience is assumed to have experience with X-ray data analysis methods, the scientific ramifications of the analysis methods, and software.

 

• Introduction
• Generation of Reference Data
  • Simulations
  • Line Spread Function
  • Generation of the LSF Library and RMFs
  • Data Files
  • File Formats
• The CXO Grating PSF's, LSF's and RMF's
  • 2-D Grating PSF Images
  • Skewness and Kurtosis of the Grating LSF
  • Analytic Fits to the LSF
    • Gaussian Fits
  • Encircled Energy
• On-Orbit Data and Fits
• LSF Tools
  • Introduction
  • Documentation
  • Other Relevent Documents
• Caveats
• Issues & Future Enhancements
• About this document ...

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