New Features: Version 2.0.0
Includes default energy boundaries for most X-ray missions,
including the XMM RGS, Chandra LETG and HETG, and others. The user
can still select observation-specific responses if available, but the
default values are adequate for all data taken straight from the
archives or processed in a standard fashion.
Menus are now "detachable," by selecting the "-----"
item at the top of each menu.
Line fits are now more robust. Only the brightest 20-25 lines in
a spectrum will be fit, and the rest ignored. This intentional
limitation on the fitting dramatically reduces fit times and increases
the chance that the fit will converge. The previous approach tried to
fit each line, and it tended to fail easily.
Line fit values are reported in units of "Total
Counts", rather than peak counts. This allows the reported
values to be used directly when making line ratios, since there is no
dependence on line width or position.
Clicking on the right mouse button allows horizontal
"scrolling" of the plot.
Multiple data sets can be loaded and used simultaneously; all
datasets that have been opened are available in the Spectrum menu.
New Features: Version 1.0.0
Can now display spectra in wavelength, energy, or velocity units
and can switch between all three on the fly.
Atomic Info button is grayed out if no line has been selected.
In addition, if in energy space, the results given are in energy units.
Line list box now displays energy or wavelength units depending
upon what is currently set in the main plot. If the main plot is in
velocity units, the default value is taken from the "Preferences".
Type II PHA files, as used by the Chandra LETG and HETG, can now
be used.
Tool tips are now displayed for the buttons in the button bar.
Plot smoothing included.
Stored plots can now be actively selected, or deleted.
Multiple spectra can be simultaneously loaded.
Drag/drop in the main plot can be used to zoom in or shift plots.
Redshifts can be applied without reloading the entire file.
Emissivities are now included for both ATOMDB and XSTAR databases.
When either fitting or looking for peaks, failures are now
reported to the user.
New Features: Version 0.5.0
When labeling spectra, vertical lines are now included under the ion labels to mark the exact position of the line.
Expand now works after a fit.
The summary information window includes the value of the GRATING
keyword (if present in the file) and the redshift used in displaying the
data.
The "velocity" button is now available only after
selecting an atomic line in the line list.
New Features: Version 0.4.0
Now includes both the ATOMDB collisional plasma linelist
and the XSTAR photoionized plasma lineslist (Thanks to Tim
Kallman for providing this line list). Currently the XSTAR
linelist does include estimated line strengths but these will be
available soon. Which database is used when displaying lines can be
selected in the "File->Prefences" menu item. The default is
ATOMDB.
When switching to "velocity" units, Profit now defaults
to a range of -3000 km/s to 3000 km/s. This can be changed in the
"File->Prefences" menu item.
The new "Plot Highlighted" feature creates a plot
collection based on stored plots. Before clicking on "Plot
Highlighted", select the plots to be displayed in the stored plot
box (the selected plots will show a highlighted border). Then
"Plot Highlighted" will create a new window (which can be
printed) with all these plots. Particularly useful in showing a
collection of velocity plots, to determine if there is any systematic
in line profile or position.
New Features: Version 0.2.1
The Chart command divides the currently displayed spectrum
into N subspectra (N defaults to 5, but can be changed using the
File->Preferences menu item) and creates a new window showing the
spectra. This window has a Print button which saves the
display spectra in a file. The new window must be closed before
anything can be done with profit.
profit can now be run from any directory, or (on the Mac)
run from the Finder by double-clicking on the profit.command icon.
Fitting lines now returns both the best-fit pararmeters as well
as the error in these values. The error for each value is listed in
parentheses after the value, so 10(4) is 10, plus or minus 4.
Fitting now works in velocity space as well as in energy space.
The Label Peaks command now searches the displayed
spectrum for likely peaks, and then labels them using an algorithm
based on the line position and strength.
Under the File menu item, the Preferences item now
displays a list of three preferences that can be changed:
- The Minimum Emissivity can now be changed. Each
emission line has a maximum emissivity; strong lines from abundance
elements such as O VII can reach emissivities as high as 1e-15 ergs
cm^3/s. The ATOMDB database tracks individual lines down to a
maximum emissivity of 1e-20, but profit (by default) only lists
lines down to limit of 1e-18. This can be raised to limit the
displayed lines, or lowered to increase the number.
- The Redshift preference allows users to set the redshift
to be applied to the spectrum. Due to some programming issues,
this does not automatically apply to the loaded spectrum; rather,
the next spectrum to be loaded will have this redshift applied.
The spectrum is then displayed in rest-frame coordinates.
- The number of spectra displayed after a Chart button
press (see above) can be changed from the default of 5.
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