Chandra Overview:

• "An Overview of the Performance and Scientific Results from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory"
  Weisskopf, M. C., Brinkman, B. Canizares, C.; Garmire, G., Murray, S., Van Speybroeck, L. P. 2002, PASP, 114, 1

• Proposers' Observatory Guide (POG)
  Available in hardcopy through HelpDesk
  
  
• "Five Years of Observations with the Chandra X-Ray Observatory"
  Weisskopf, M. C. 2005, ASP Conf. Ser.

High Resolution Mirror Assembly (HRMA)

• "Calibration of Chandra's Near On-Axis Performance"
  D. Jerius et al. 2004, SPIE Proc. 5165

• "The Absolute Effective Area of the Chandra High Resolution Mirror Assembly"
  D. A. Schwartz, et al. 2000, SPIE Proc. 4012, 28

• http://cxc.harvard.edu/cal/Hrma/
  

Aspect

• "Initial performance of the aspect system on the Chandra Observatory: postfacto aspect reconstruction"
  Aldcroft, Thomas L., Karovska, Margarita, Cresitello-Dittmar, Mark L., Cameron, Robert A., Markevitch, Maxim L. 2000, SPIE, 4012, 650
  

• "Initial performance of the attitude control and aspect determination sub-systems on the Chandra Observatory"
  Cameron, Robert A., Aldcroft, Thomas L., Podgorski, William A., Freeman, Mark D., Shirer, Jeffrey J. 2000, SPIE, 4012, 658
  

• "The AXAF (Chandra) Guide and Acquisition Star Catalog V1.5 (AGASC 1.5)"
  Schmidt, D., and Green, P. 2003, ADASS XII, ASP Conf. Ser, eds. H. E. Payne, R. I. Jedrzejewski, and R. N. Hook, 295, 81

• http://cxc.harvard.edu/cal/ASPECT/

• http://cxc.harvard.edu/cda/agasc1p5_comments.txt

• http://cxc.harvard.edu/cgi-gen/cda/agasc/agascInterface.pl

High Resolution Camera (HRC)

• "In-flight Performance of the Chandra High Resolution Camera"
  Murray, Stephen S., Austin, Gerald K., Chappell, Jon H., Gomes, Joaquim J., Kenter, Almus T., Kraft, Ralph P., Meehan, Gary R,, Zombeck, Martin V., Fraser, George W., Serio, Salvatore 2000, SPIE, 4012, 68

• http://hea-www.harvard.edu/HRC/HomePage.html

• http://cxc.harvard.edu/cal/Hrc/

Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS)

• "Advanced CCD imaging spectrometer (ACIS) instrument on the Chandra X-ray Observatory"
  G. P. Garmire, M. W. Bautz, P. G. Ford, J. A. Nousek, and G. R. Ricker 2003, SPIE, 4851, p28-44

• Bautz, Mark W., Pivovaroff, Michael, Baganoff, F., Isobe, Takashi, Jones, Stephen E., Kissel, Steven E., Lamarr, B., Manning, Herbert L., Prigozhin, Gregory Y., Ricker, George R., Nousek, John A., Grant, Catherine E., Nishikida, Kaori, Scholze, Frank, Thornagel, R., Ulm, Gerhard 1998, SPIE, 3444, 210

• Composition of the Chandra ACIS contaminanant H. L.Marshall, et al. astro-ph/0308332

• A charge transfer inefficiency correction model for the Chandra Advanced Imaging Spectrometer C.E. Grant, M.W. Bautz, S.M. Kissel, B. LaMarr, 2004, SPIE, 5501, 177

• http://cxc.harvard.edu/cal/Acis/

• http://acis.mit.edu

• http://www.astro.psu.edu/xray/acis/

High-Energy Transmission Grating (HETG)

• "The Chandra High Energy Transmission Grating: Design, Fabrication, Ground Calibration and Five Years in Flight"
  Canizares, Claude R., Davis, John E., Dewey, Daniel, Flanagan, Kathryn A., Galton, Eugene B., Huenemoerder, David P., Ishibashi, Kazunori, Markert, Thomas H., Marshall, Herman L., McGuirk, Michael,Schattenburg, Mark L., Schulz, Norbert S., Smith, Henry I., Wise, Michael
  accepted for publication in PASP


• "High-Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer for the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF)" Markert, Thomas H., Canizares, Claude R., Dewey, Daniel, McGuirk, Michael, Pak, Chris S., Schattenburg, Mark L. 1994, SPIE, 2280, 168
  

• "In-Flight Calibration of the Chandra High Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer", Marshall, H. L., Dewey, D., and Ishibashi, K. 2003, astro-ph/0309114
  

• http://space.mit.edu/HETG/

Low-Energy Transmission Grating (LETG)

• "Description and performance of the low-energy transmission grating spectrometer on board Chandra"
  Brinkman, Bert C., Gunsing, Theo, Kaastra, Jelle S., van der Meer, Rob, Mewe, Rolf, Paerels, Frits B., Raassen, Ton, van Rooijen, Jan, Braeuninger, Heinrich W., Burwitz, Vadim, Hartner, Gisela D., Kettenring, Guenther, Predehl, Peter, Drake, Jeremy J., Johnson, C. Olivia, Kenter, Almus T., Kraft, Ralph P., Murray, Stephen S., Ratzlaff, Peter W., Wargelin, Bradford J. 2000, SPIE, 4012, 81
  

• "LETGS: Instrument status and science highlights", in X-ray andgamma-ray telescopes and instruments for astronomy, M. Mendez et al., Joachim Truemper, Harvey D. Tananbaum, Editors, 2003, SPIE Proc. 4851, 57 .
  

• "First Light Measurements of Capella with the Low-Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer aboard the Chandra X-Ray Observatory"
  Brinkman, A. C. et al. 2000, ApJ, 530, L111

• "In-flight Performance and Calibration of the Chandra High Resolution Camera Spectroscopic Readout (HRC-S)"
  Kraft, R. P. et al 2000, SPIE, 4012, 493

• "Low Energy Effective Area of the Chandra Low Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer"
  Pease, D. O. et al. 2000, SPIE, 4012, 700

• "Positional Accuracy as a Measure of Chandra's Optical Distortions"
  Pease, D. O. et al. 2002, SPIE , 4851, 157

• http://www.sron.nl/divisions/hea/chandra/

• http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de

Calibration

• X-ray Calibration Facility (XRCF): Newsletter 3

• Subassembly Calibration: Newsletter 4
• Subassembly Calibration: ACIS
• Subassembly Calibration: HRC
• Subassembly Calibration: LETG
• Subassembly Calibration: HETG




• XRCF Calibration: Newsletter 5
• Calibration: HRMA
• Calibration: HRC
• HETG Spectra
• LETG Spectra




• Calibration Reports: Newsletter 6
  • HRMA Calibration
  • ACIS Calibration
  • HRC Calibration
  • LETG Calibration
  • HETGS and the Crab
  
  Newsletters available in hardcopy through HelpDesk

Data Processing

• "Processing Chandra Data"
  Nichols, J., Evans, J. D. 2002, Chandra News #9, 22

Chandra Interactive Analysis of Observations (CIAO)

• "AXAF Data and Data Manipulation Software: The ASC Data Model"
  J. McDowell, M. Noble, M. Elvis 1998, Legacy 7, 64

• "The AXAF Data Analysis System: Infrastructure and New Features"
  Fruscione, A. 1997 Data Analysis in Astronomy, Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop. Ettore Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice, Italy. 27 Oct - 3 Nov, 1996. Edited by V. Di Gesu, M. J. B. Duff, A. Heck, M. C. Maccarone, L. Scarsi and H. U. Zimmerman. World Scientific Press, p.221
  

• "Elements of The Chandra Data Analysis System"
  M. Noble, 2000 ADASS IX, ASP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 216

• "CIAO, at your Service!"
  Fruscione, A. and Siemiginowska, A. 2000, Chandra News #7, 4

• "CIAO 2: New Software and Documentation"
  Fruscione, A. 2001, Chandra News #8, 10

• "CIAO: Focus on Threads"
  Fruscione, A. 2002, Chandra News #9, 20

• CIAO: "Why? Topics", and "Analysis Guides: A Deeper and Wider Perspective"
  Galle, E. and Fruscione, A. 2003, Chandra News #10, 20

If you are writing a paper and would like to cite the CIAO software, we recommend the following:

• Chandra Interactive Analysis of Observations (CIAO)
• "Sherpa: a mission-independent data analysis application"
  P. E. Freeman, S. Doe, A. Siemiginowska SPIE Proceedings vol.4477, p.76 November 2001
• "ChaRT: The Chandra Ray Tracer"
  C. Carter, et al. ADASS XII ASP Conference Series, Vol. 295, 2003, p.477

In all cases, the specific version of CIAO and CALDB used for the analysis should be mentioned as well.

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