AHEAD2020 High-resolution spectroscopy school

This is the AHEAD2020 High-resolution spectroscopy school website for the hands-on sessions. You can find the instructions and exercises here for various X-ray astronomy topics. Please find the course materials on our Github page and our Zenodo community.

• Software installation
  • Sciserver setup (recommended)
  • Alternative: Renkulab
  • Laptop setup (advanced)
  • Troubleshooting
• SPEX hands-on
  • SPEX introduction
  • Fit a power law in SPEX
  • Fit a powerlaw with a Gaussian line in SPEX
• XRISM hands-on
  • Analysis of the Hitomi Perseus data
  • XRISM simulation
• ISM hands-on
  • SPEX and the instellar medium
  • Exercises
• AGN hands-on session
  • Exercise 1
  • Exercise 2
  • Exercise 3
• Cluster hands-on
  • Renku setup
  • Laptop setup
  • Accessing the data and the exercises
• X-ray binaries hands-on session
  • Exercise 1: Chandra/HETG spectra of a black hole X-ray binary
  • Exercise 2: Use self-consistent models
  • Exercise 3: XRISM simulation of an X-ray binary
• Credits & more information