Proposals & Tools
This material is in support of the upcoming call for Guest Scientists.
The table below contains links to software and support files, tar files as well as documentation, which allow the user to simulate events and spectra for the Resolve spectrometer on XRISM (and SXS on Hitomi). The same files can be downloaded directly from the XRISM FTP.
If you need help, please send your queries using the HEASARC feedback form for XRISM.
| Simulation Software, Support Files, and User Guide
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HEASoft 6.28 |
The software is part of the HEASoft suite of tools available
here. The main tasks used are the following:
heasim
-- simulate an event file
skyback -- simulate
sky X-ray background
sxsbranch
-- calculate the spectrometer branching ratio
XSPEC -- for spectra simulation
XSELECT -- extract spectra from event file
To install the software follow the steps in the general
installation directions for the
HEASoft distribution.
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| FTP site for simulation files
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The link to the left is for the FTP location of all XRISM pre-launch simulation
tools described here. The following files are also available directly from the
links below:
General README -- General and more extensive README for all simulation files
Simulation file README -- Read this file for overview information on the XRISM Resolve simulation files
(README_XRISM_SIMULATION_v003.txt)
Support files README -- Read this file for overview information on the XRISM Resolve simulation support files
(README_XRISM_SPECFILES_v003.txt)
Simulation User Guide -- User guide on performing XRISM
Resolve simulations, which supplements the quick guide
(heasim_20170825.pdf)
Simulation files (direct download) -- This tarfile includes the support files for heasim as well as the responses and background files needed
to simulate Resolve data and spectra (heasimfiles_20201012.tar.gz)
heasim scripts (direct download) -- This tarfile includes the scripts that are documented in the user guide above
(heasimscripts_20170830.tar.gz)
Spectral files (direct download) -- This tarfile includes only those files needed for spectral (e.g., Xspec) simulations (specfiles_v003.tar.gz)
XRISM Simulation Quick Guide -- Quick guide to
performing XRISM Resolve simulations
(xrism_sim_quickguide_20201012.pdf)
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| XRISM Relevant Papers
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| XRISM Overview
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This overview was presented at the SPIE conference in December 2020.
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| XRISM White Paper
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This white paper lays out the intended science goals
of XRISM.
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| Other XRISM Publications
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Collection of XARM and XRISM publications.
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| Hitomi Relevant Papers
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| Hitomi Instrument papers
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This collection of papers includes a general description of the Hitomi observatory as well as papers describing the instruments.
These are the proceedings of the SPIE conference in Edinburgh 2016.
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| Hitomi White Papers
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These white papers are representative of the science planned to achieve with Hitomi.
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