Sherpa References

Various Sherpa-related documents are available for download. Some are in HTML format, so they can be viewed directly in your web browser. Others are in PDF and Postscript format, so you must print them or examine them in an external viewer (such as Acrobat Reader or Ghostview).

There is a separate page which lists Sherpa Publications.

Manuals

• The Chandra ABC Guide to Pileup (PS, 23 pages)

• Scripting in CIAO webpages

Presentations

Sherpa

• Modeling, Fitting and Statistics - CIAO workshop, October 2008
• The CIAO 4.0 Data Analysis System - HEAD meeting, 2008

Statistics

• Statistics: Basic Concepts - Int'l X-ray Astronomy School, 2005
• Statistics: Model Hypothesis Testing - Int'l X-ray Astronomy School, 2005
• Statistics in the X-ray Regime - CIAO workshop, May 2002
• Statistics I: Issues in Model Fitting in the X-ray Regime - GSFC X-ray School, 2001
• Statistics II: Model Comparison and Parameter Estimation - GSFC X-ray School, 2001

Documents

Fitting

• Spectral Fitting

Statistics

• Statistics: a chapter for "X-ray Astronomy Handbook"