Install Instructions¶

Requirements¶

Astropy
Specutils
Numpy
Matplotlib

Install development version¶

You can download and install pyXsis from the Github repository:

git clone https://github.com/eblur/pyxsis.git
cd pyxsis
python setup.py install

Testing the Installation¶

To run the test notebooks in pyxsis/tests/notebooks, you will need to download the test HETG data.

First, download the tar ball from https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2528474

Next, copy the downloaded file to your pyxsis folder and unpack the tar ball:

tar -xvf pyxsis_test_data.tar

You’re now ready to run the notebooks!

Quick Start Guide¶

To open a .pha file with pyXsis, you can follow these commands:

import pyxsis
my_spectrum = pyxsis.io.load_chandra_hetg('my_HETG_file.pha')

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
ax = plt.subplot(111)
pyxis.plot_counts(ax, my_spectrum, xunit='keV')