Spectral Calibration of the ROSAT HRI

Andrea H. Prestwich - John Silverman - Jonathan McDowell
- Paul Callanan - Steve Snowden

Email Andrea Prestwich (prestwich@cfa.harvard.edu) for questions, queries etc. regarding this project.

• Introduction
• Overview of Calibration Procedure
• ROSAT HRI gain variations
• The XGAIN program
• Bright Earth Database
• The response matrix shift vs. gain relation
• Calibration Example
  • Read spectrum into XSPEC OR calculate a hardness ratio
    • XSPEC Analysis
    • Simulations
• Channel Boundary Plots
• Creating Simulated Datasets with XSPEC
• Files in this Distribution
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