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Developing skills with HEASARC services

  • Accessing HEASARC Data
    • Using PyVO to find and acquire HEASARC data
  • Accessing HEASARC Catalogs
    • Find specific HEASARC catalogs using Python
    • Exploring the contents of HEASARC catalogs using Python
    • Cross-matching local and HEASARC catalogs using Python

Mission specific tutorials

  • NuSTAR
    • Analyzing a single NuSTAR observation
  • RXTE
    • Exploring RXTE spectral observations of Eta Car
    • Using archived and newly generated RXTE light curves
  • NICER
    • Getting started with NICER data
  • IXPE
    • Getting started with preprocessed IXPE data
  • Swift
    • Getting started with Swift-XRT
  • ROSAT
    • Getting started with ROSAT All Sky Survey data

Useful high-energy tools

  • HEASoftPy
    • Getting started with HEASoftPy
  • pySAS
    • Short introduction to pySAS
  • Repository
  • Suggest edit
  • Open issue
  • .md

IXPE

IXPE#

Here we include notebooks that demonstrate how to use data taken by the IXPE mission.

IXPE tutorials

  • Getting started with preprocessed IXPE data
    • Learning Goals
    • Introduction
    • Imports
    • Global Setup
    • 1. Downloading the IXPE data files for 01004701
    • 2. Exploring the structure of IXPE data
    • 3. Extracting spectro-polarimetric data products
    • 4. Loading spectro-polarimetric data into pyXspec and fitting a model
    • 5. Visualizing the results
    • 6. Interpreting the results from XSPEC
    • About this notebook

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