Contents

• Contents
• Introduction
  • XSPEC
  • New in Version 11.3
  • How to contact us
  • Relationship to HEAsoft
  • History
  • Acknowledgements
• Spectral Fitting and XSPEC
  • Introduction
  • The XSPEC implementation
  • Helpful Hints
• An overview of XSPEC
  • Command syntax
  • Reading data
  • Defining models
  • Fitting
  • Plotting
  • Getting help
  • Simulated data
  • Fluxes, luminosities, equivalent widths, and line IDs
  • Miscellaneous
• Walks through XSPEC
  • Introduction
  • Brief Discussion of XSPEC Files
  • Fitting Models to Data: An Example from EXOSAT
  • Simultaneous Fitting: Examples from Einstein and Ginga
  • Using XSPEC to Simulate Data: an Example from ASCA
  • Producing Plots: Modifying the Defaults
• XSPEC commands
  • Summary of Commands
  • Description of Syntax
  • XSPEC Commands A-F
  • XSPEC Commands G-M
  • XSPEC Commands N-S
  • XSPEC Commands T-Z
• XSPEC V11.3 Models
  • Summary of Models
  • Additive Model Components A-M
  • Additive Model Components N-Z
  • Multiplicative Model Components A-M
  • Multiplicative Model Components N-Z
  • Convolution Model Components
  • Pile-Up Model Components
  • Mixing Model Components
• Associated programs
  • Introduction
  • FTOOLS reading tasks
  • FTOOLS manipulation tasks
  • FTOOLS conversion tasks
  • FTOOLS subroutines
• Overview of PLT
  • Command summary
  • XSPEC graphics
  • Getting started with PLT
• Fitting with few counts/bin
  • Theory
  • Practice
• Adding models to XSPEC
  • Analytic Models
  • Table models
• The User Interface
  • Introduction
  • XSPEC and tcl/tk
  • Script Files
  • The XSPEC Parser
• Revision History for Version 10 & 11
  • Version 11.2 Changes
  • Version 11.1 Changes
  • Version 11 Changes
  • Version 10 Changes
  • XSPEC v11.2 issues fixed in 11.3
  • XSPEC v11.1 issues fixed in 11.2
  • XSPEC v11 issues fixed in 11.1