Welcome to X-ray: Generate and Analyse (XGA)’s documentation!

Contents:

• Introduction
• Installation
  • Data Required For Using This Module
  • Region Files
  • The Module
  • Required Dependencies
  • Optional Dependencies
  • Configuring XGA
  • XGA’s First Run After Configuration
  • Blacklisting ObsIDs
• Tutorials
  • Sources and Samples
  • XGA Products
  • Photometry with XGA
  • Spectroscopy with XGA
  • Generating Scaling Relations
• Advanced Tutorials
  • Basics of XGA Profiles
  • Gas Density Profiles
  • Annular Spectra of Extended Sources
  • Temperature and Hydrostatic Mass Profiles of Clusters
• Under the Hood
  • Hierarchical Clustering Peak Finder
• XGA's Parallelism
• XGA Classes and Functions
  • sources
  • samples
  • sas
  • xspec
  • products
  • imagetools
  • sourcetools
  • relations
  • models
• Planned Features
• Publications using XGA
• Getting Support

If you make use of XGA in academic work, please cite the following software paper

@ARTICLE{2022arXiv220201236T,
       author = {{Turner}, D.~J. and {Giles}, P.~A. and {Romer}, A.~K. and {Korbina}, V.},
        title = "{XGA: A module for the large-scale scientific exploitation of archival X-ray astronomy data}",
      journal = {arXiv e-prints},
     keywords = {Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena},
         year = 2022,
        month = feb,
          eid = {arXiv:2202.01236},
        pages = {arXiv:2202.01236},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
       eprint = {2202.01236},
 primaryClass = {astro-ph.IM},
       adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022arXiv220201236T},
      adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
}