See the Hydra Project web page for up-to-date progress and information.

i Hydra Spatial-Spectral Modeling

General block diagram, etc. for Hydra:

Hydra Diagram (July '05) , ( eps )
[ Hydra Diagram (Sept.'03) , ( eps ) ]

Hydra Data diagram (.png) , (.eps) , (.fig) .

List of Hydra-related papers/talks

Prototyping of Hydra concepts and capabilities is ongoing in a variety of test beds. Here in the table below are examples carried out using prototype code written in IDL --- the "ihy_" and "v3d_" routines in the HAK (HETG Analysis Kit) code. The spectrum and ARF files used by most of these examples are given for reference in:

Source
Type 		Target
Modeled 		Versions Source
geom? 		Spectral
model? 		Model
calc.s? 		Simulated
obs.s? 		Real
data? 		Model-data
compare? 		Model-data
fitting?
Cluster A1068 yes yes yes ACIS,XRS
MEG 		ACIS by eye:
images,
spectra 		(manually
adjusted)
SNR E0102 yes yes yes Suzaku BI,FI

ACIS,MEG,XRS

FUSE 		Suzaku,
ACIS,
4xMEG

yes:
Chi^2,
K-S test 		(manually
adjusted)
SNR SNR 1987A yes yes yes LETG, ACIS

ACIS,XRS,MEG 		LETG, ACIS

--- 		Chi^2,
K-S test
--- 		---
SNR Cas A yes

yes
movie 		yes



 yes



FPCS,
HETG-zo,
Suzaku-BI


HETG-zo,
Suzaku-BI



 --- ---
BH Binary
w/jets 		SS 433 yes
movie 		--- --- --- [HETG] --- ---
NS Binary X 1822-37 yes
movie 		--- --- light-
curve
(kludge) 		[HETG
(671)] 		--- ---
Geometric "Houck's
spheres" 		yes --- --- --- --- --- ---
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