• Corpus ID: 246485802

XGA: A module for the large-scale scientific exploitation of archival X-ray astronomy data

@inproceedings{Turner2022XGAAM,
  title={XGA: A module for the large-scale scientific exploitation of archival X-ray astronomy data},
  author={D J Turner and Paul A Giles and A. K. Romer and Violetta Korbina},
  year={2022}
}

• D. J. Turner, P. Giles, +1 author V. Korbina
• Published 2 February 2022
• Physics

The XMM Cluster Survey (XCS, Romer et al., 2001) have developed a new Python module, X-ray: Generate and Analyse (hereafter referred to as XGA ) to provide interactive and automated analyses of X-ray emitting sources observed by the XMM -Newton space telescope. XGA only requires that a set of cleaned, processed, event lists has been created, and (optionally) that a source detector has generated region lists for the observations. XGA is centered around the concept of making all available data easily accessible and analysable. The user provides information (e.g. RA, Dec, redshift) on the source they wish to investigate, and XGA will locate all relevant observations and generate all required data products. This approach means that the user can quickly and easily complete common analyses without manually searching through large amounts of archival data for relevant observations, thus being left free to focus on extracting the maximum scientific gain. In the future, we will add support for X-ray telescopes other than XMM (e.g. Chandra , eROSITA ), as well as the ability to perform multi-mission joint analyses. With the advent of new X-ray observatories such as eROSITA (Predehl XRISM (XRISM Science ATHENA (Nandra and Lynx (Gaskin it is the perfect time for a new, open-source, software package that is open for anyone to use and scrutinise.