Chandra/CIAO Workshop day at the Sixth Advanced Arab Astrophysics School
Previous CIAO Workshops
Schedule
The Chandra/CIAO portion of the workshop took place on Monday, 26 October 2026. The following talks were presented
- Vinay Kashyap: X-ray Astronomy with Chandra
- Antonella Fruscione: Introduction to CIAO
- Antonella Fruscione: From events to science: Imaging, imaging spectroscopy and the Chandra Source Catalog with CIAO
- Kenny Glotfelty: Introduction to SAOImageDS9 (demo, previously recorded)
- Vinay Kashyap: Basics of high-energy Astrostatistics
Reference Material
- CIAO: Chandra’s Data Analysis System for X-Ray Astronomy and Beyond, Fruscione, et al.
- Sherpa: An Open-source Python Fitting Package, Siemiginowska, et al.
- SAOImageDS9: An Essential Tool for Astronomical Exploration, Fruscione, et al.
- The Chandra Source Catalog Release 2 Series, Evans, et al.
- An X-ray Data Primer: What I Wish I Knew when Starting X-Ray Astronomy, Lee et al.
-
Chandra Pocket Guide, Lee and Tingle.
- CIAO website main page
- Shepra website main page
- Chandra Source Catalog main page
- SAOImageDS9 main page