Skip to main content

The NASA/GSFC network is currently experiencing intermittent issues that affect our services. We are working on it and apologize for the inconvenience.
The offline tool hark (also on github) can be used to find and download data from the cloud.

Xspec Home Page

next up previous contents
Next: The Basics of Spectral Up: Spectral Fitting and XSPEC Previous: Spectral Fitting and XSPEC   Contents

Introduction

This chapter comprises a brief description of the basics of spectral fitting, their application in XSPEC, and some helpful hints on how to approach particular problems. We then provide more details on the way XSPEC provides flexibility in its approach to the minimization problem. We also describe the data formats accepted.