Chandra¶
- class marxs.missions.chandra.Chandra(**kwargs)[source] [edit on github]¶
Bases:
Sequence
Main class representing the Chandra X-ray observatory
Define a new MARXS element.
Methods Summary
process_photons
(photons)write_evt
(photons, filename)Write a Chandra event level 1 file.
Methods Documentation
- process_photons(photons)[source] [edit on github]¶
- write_evt(photons, filename)[source] [edit on github]¶
Write a Chandra event level 1 file.
As opposed to directly saving the photon list, this adds some Chandra specific meta data.
- Parameters:
- photons
astropy.table.Table
orastropy.table.Row
Table with photon properties. Some meta data from the header of this table is required (e.g. the length of the observation).
- filenamestring
Path and file name where the file is saved.
- photons