sherpa_profiles

Description

The sherpa_profiles module provides routines to create radial profile plots of imaging data and fits in Sherpa, and is provided as part of the CIAO contributed scripts package.

Loading the routines

The module can be loaded into Sherpa by saying either of:

require ("sherpa_profiles");
require ("sherpa_contrib");

where the second form loads in all the Sherpa contributed routines, not just the profiles module.

Contents

The profiles module currenly provides the following routines:

Plot a radial or elliptical profile

• prof_data() - Plot a radial or elliptical profile of imaging data.
• prof_fit() - Plot a profile of the fit.
• prof_fit_resid() - Plot a profile of the fit and residuals.
• prof_fit_delchi() - Plot a profile of the fit and residuals (units of sigma).
• prof_model() - Plot a profile of the model.
• prof_source() - Plot a profile of the source.
• prof_resid() - Plot a profile of the residuals.
• prof_delchi() - Plot a profile of the residuals (unots of sigma).

Create a radial or elliptical profile

• get_data_prof() - create the data used by prof_data()
• get_fit_prof() - create the data used by prof_fit()
• get_model_prof() - create the data used by prof_model()
• get_source_prof() - create the data used by prof_source()
• get_resid_prof() - create the data used by prof_resid()
• get_delchi_prof() - create the data used by prof_delchi()

Preferences for the profile plots

• get_data_prof_prefs() - preferences for data profile plots
• get_model_prof_prefs() - preferences for model profile plots
• get_source_prof_prefs() - preferences for source profile plots
• get_resid_prof_prefs() - preferences for residual profile plots
• get_delchi_prof_prefs() - preferences for residual (sigma) profile plots

See the ahelp file for the routine and the contributed scripts page for further information.