Manuals & Memos
The list below provides links to the CIAO manuals. The Proposer's Observatory Guide is available from the Chandra Proposal Information page. We also maintain presentations from the CIAO Workshops.
- General
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Chandra Coordinate Systems:
- Imaging (PS, 25 pages)
- Aspect Calibration (PS, 9 pages; draft version)
- Dispersed Spectra (PS, 5 pages; draft version)
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Data Model:
- Introduction (PS, 34 pages)
- Principal DM Tools (PS, 43 pages)
- Virtual File Syntax (PS, 36 pages)
- Using the ASCII Kernel (PS, 8 pages)
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Data Products Guide (HTML)
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The Chandra ABC Guide to Pileup (PDF, 26 pages)
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Chandra Coordinate Systems:
- Imaging
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Chandra Coordinate Systems: Imaging (PS, 25 pages)
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Detect Manual (HTML) or PS (190 pages)
- Detect Manual data (tar.gz, 32 MB)
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An Introduction to Exposure Maps (PS, 12 pages)
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Chandra PSF Library (PS, 16 pages)
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Transformation, Convolution, and Deconvolution (PS, 79 pages)
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- Grating Spectroscopy
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Chandra Coordinate Systems: Dispersed Spectra (PS, 5 pages; draft version)
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Analysis Guide for Chandra High Resolution Spectroscopy (HTML)
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- Scripting