TG2Spex - Convert Chandra grating data

Tg2spex is a script to convert spectra from Chandra grating observations to SPEX format. Tg2spex works with input flags from the command line. The ‘-h’ flag shows the help of the tg2spex command:

linux:~> tg2spex -h

A full overview of the arguments is given below in the section Command-line arguments.

Example

Tg2spex detects the standard file names in a directory, so providing the path to the directory should be enough. In addition, flags can be provided to, for example, overwrite existing spo and res files:

linux:~> tg2spex --overwrite /data/user/tgcat/obs_11387_tgid_3191
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 This is tg2spex version 0.2.1
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Read source spectrum... OK
Detected grating: Chandra LEG.
Combining orders of the spectra... OK
Convert to spo and write spo file... OK
Reading response for order... -1  OK
Reading response for order... -2  OK
Reading response for order... -3  OK
Reading response for order... -4  OK
Reading response for order... -5  OK
Reading response for order... -6  OK
Reading response for order... -7  OK
Reading response for order... -8  OK
Reading response for order... 1  OK
Reading response for order... 2  OK
Reading response for order... 3  OK
Reading response for order... 4  OK
Reading response for order... 5  OK
Reading response for order... 6  OK
Reading response for order... 7  OK
Reading response for order... 8  OK
Reading effective area for order... -1  OK
Reading effective area for order... -2  OK
Reading effective area for order... -3  OK
Reading effective area for order... -4  OK
Reading effective area for order... -5  OK
Reading effective area for order... -6  OK
Reading effective area for order... -7  OK
Reading effective area for order... -8  OK
Reading effective area for order... 1  OK
Reading effective area for order... 2  OK
Reading effective area for order... 3  OK
Reading effective area for order... 4  OK
Reading effective area for order... 5  OK
Reading effective area for order... 6  OK
Reading effective area for order... 7  OK
Reading effective area for order... 8  OK
Write combined res file... OK

In this example, the directory contains a Chandra LETG spectrum with 16 orders. In the first step the spectra from the pha2 file are combined and saved. After that, the responses and effective areas are read in and combined into a single leg.spo and leg.res.

Command-line arguments

See full documentation at: https://spex-xray.github.io/pyspextools

usage: tg2spex [-h] [--input-prefix INPUT_PREFIX] [--output-prefix OUTPUT_PREFIX] [--no-bkgsubtract] [--keep-badchannels] [--overwrite]
               [--no-exprate] [--no-color] [--version]
               path

Positional Arguments

path

Path to the observation directory where the pha2, arfs and rmfs are.

Named Arguments

--input-prefix

Input filename prefix (example: ‘hrcf04149_repro_’).

Default: “”

--output-prefix

Output filename prefix (names the output to ‘prefix’leg.spo/res

Default: “”

--no-bkgsubtract

Substract the background spectrum.

Default: True

--keep-badchannels

Do not remove bad channels.

Default: True

--overwrite

Overwrite existing spo and res files with same name.

Default: True

--no-exprate

Do not write additional Exp_Rate column (SPEX <=3.04.00).

Default: True

--no-color

Suppress color output.

Default: True

--version

show program’s version number and exit