Planned XGA Features

• Support for other X-ray telescopes - XGA’s purpose is to facilitate the exploitation of the complete public X-ray archive, hence the aim is to support all X-ray telescopes eventually. Currently XMM and eROSITA are supported, and the software is setup so that integrating new telescope-specific softwares should not be an arduous task. If you are interested in integrating a telescope into XGA please reach out to the development team (Getting Help and Support).

• Creating a Docker image for users to download - Creating a Docker environment with all relevant software already installed.

• More XSPEC Models - Support for custom user defined models.

• Upper Limit X-ray Luminosities - These luminosities are measured from photometric products when there are not sufficient X-ray counts to generate a spectrum. This will support measurements from combined data, as well as single images.

• Implement emcee scaling relation fitter - Implement an emcee fitter for the scaling relations so that there is an MCMC option that doesn’t require the installation of optional dependencies.

• Method for finding poorly removed point sources - An attempt to mitigate occasional mistakes by source finders that produce regions that don’t necessarily remove the entire point source.