Acknowledgements

This project would not have been possible without ignoring the advice of far more people than can be mentioned here. We would like to thank all our colleagues for their suggestions, bug reports, and (especially) source code. The GSFC X-ray astronomy group are particularly thanked for their patience exhibited while functioning as the beta test site for new releases. The initial developement of XSPEC was funded by a Royal Society grant to Prof. Andy Fabian and subsequent developement was partially funded by the European Space Agency's EXOSAT project and now by the NASA/GSFC HEASARC.