CIAO: Chandra's data analysis system

By A. Fruscione, J. McDowell, G. Allen, N. Brickhouse, D. Burke, John E. Davis, N. Durham, M. Elvis, E. Galle, D. Harris and 11 more. SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2006

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Subfields: Computational Mechanics, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Instrumentation

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In Computational Mechanics

1. D. M. Alexander
2. Stefano Borgani
3. F. E. Bauer
4. E. Rasia
5. S. Ettori
6. Klaus Dolag
7. B. Metzger
8. N. Wright

In Instrumentation

1. D. M. Alexander
2. Mara Salvato
3. P. Capak
4. A. C. Fabian
5. Stefano Borgani
6. J. Silverman
7. N. Scoville
8. L. Hernquist

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• Lensing and x-ray mass estimates of clusters (simulations) (2012, methodology): “X-ray analysis Using CIAO tool (Fruscione et al. 2006) we extract soft band images in the [0.7 − 2] keV band.”
• BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey. V. X-Ray Properties of the Swift/BAT 70-month AGN Catalog (2017, methodology): “The reduction of Chandra/ACIS data was performed using CIAOv.4.6 (Fruscione et al. 2006) following the standard procedures.”
• A new bound on axion-like particles (2017, methodology): “nalysis of the Chandra archive observations of M87 in [29], which is summarised below. 2.1 Data reduction All datasets were analysed with ciao 4.8 and caldb 4.7.2 supplied by the Chandra X-ray Center [35]. Level 1 event les were reprocessed for the latest gain and charge transfer ineciency correctio”
• INNOVATIONS IN THE ANALYSIS OF CHANDRA-ACIS OBSERVATIONS (2010, methodology): “AE relies heavily on tools in the Chandra Interactive Analysis of Observations13 (CIAO) package (Fruscione et al. 2006).”
• The stellar rotation–activity relationship in fully convective M dwarfs (2018, methodology): “The observations were processed using the CIAO 4.9 software tools (Fruscione et al. 2006) and the CALDB 4.7.3 calibration files.”
• An Embedded X-Ray Source Shines through the Aspherical AT 2018cow: Revealing the Inner Workings of the Most Luminous Fast-evolving Optical Transients (2018, methodology): “Software:BOXFIT (Version 2; van Eerten et al. 2010, 2012), CASA (McMullin et al. 2007), CIAO (Fruscione et al. 2006), HEAsoft (Version 6.24), HOTPANTS (Becker 2015), INTEGRAL Off-line Scientific Analysis (OSA), IRAF (Tody 1986, 1993), pwkit (Williams et al. 2017), SNOoPY (http://sngroup.…”
• THE CHANDRA SOURCE CATALOG (2009, methodology): “Also included in the CSC are a number of file-based data products in formats suitable for further analysis in CIAO.”
• THE CHANDRA COSMOS LEGACY SURVEY: OVERVIEW AND POINT SOURCE CATALOG (2016, methodology): “The data reduction was performed following the procedures described in E09 for C-COSMOS, using standard Chandra CIAO 4.5 tools (Fruscione et al. 2006) and CALDB 4.5.9.”