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

• Chandra Coordinate Systems:
  • Imaging (PS, 25 pages)
  • Aspect Calibration (PS, 9 pages; draft version)
  • Dispersed Spectra (PS, 5 pages; draft version)
  
  
• 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)

• Data Products Guide (HTML)

• The Chandra ABC Guide to Pileup (PDF, 26 pages)

Imaging

• Chandra Coordinate Systems: Imaging (PS, 25 pages)

• Detect Manual (HTML) or PS (190 pages)

  • Detect Manual data (tar.gz, 32 MB)

• An Introduction to Exposure Maps (PS, 12 pages)

• Chandra PSF Library (PS, 16 pages)

• SAOImage ds9 Reference Manual (HTML)

• Transformation, Convolution, and Deconvolution (PS, 79 pages)

Grating Spectroscopy

• Chandra Coordinate Systems: Dispersed Spectra (PS, 5 pages; draft version)

• Analysis Guide for Chandra High Resolution Spectroscopy (HTML)

Scripting

• Python Programming Language website

• S-Lang Manual (HTML)