Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-08-27
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
To appear in Proc. SPIE Conf. 4477. 12 pages, 4 figures
Scientific paper
10.1117/12.447161
The ever-increasing quality and complexity of astronomical data underscores the need for new and powerful data analysis applications. This need has led to the development of Sherpa, a modeling and fitting program in the CIAO software package that enables the analysis of multi-dimensional, multi-wavelength data. In this paper, we present an overview of Sherpa's features, which include: support for a wide variety of input and output data formats, including the new Model Descriptor List (MDL) format; a model language which permits the construction of arbitrarily complex model expressions, including ones representing instrument characteristics; a wide variety of fit statistics and methods of optimization, model comparison, and parameter estimation; multi-dimensional visualization, provided by ChIPS; and new interactive analysis capabilities provided by embedding the S-Lang interpreted scripting language. We conclude by showing example Sherpa analysis sessions.
Doe Stephen
Freeman Peter E.
Siemiginowska Aneta
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