Chandra Software

I wrote the following software components as part of my job at the Center for Space Research for the Chandra X-ray Observatory.

• marx:
  A simulator for the on-orbit performance of the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
• mkarf, mkinstmap, mkexpmap, mkgarf:
  A suite of programs for creating ARFs and exposure maps used in the spectral analysis of X-ray data. See my paper for a detailed discussion of these objects and their role in X-ray spectral analysis.
• ardlib:
  This is a software library that allows the computation of effective areas, quantum efficiencies, and so on, in a mission-independent manner.