Welcome to Democratising Archival X-ray Astronomy (DAXA)’s documentation!

Contents:

• Introduction
  • Which missions are supported?
  • Analysing the processed archives
• Installation
  • The Module
  • Required Dependencies for Processing Data
  • Configuring DAXA
• Tutorials
  • Identifying and acquiring relevant X-ray observations
  • Data acquisition case studies
  • Creating and managing a data archive (single or multi-mission)
  • Processing Data
• Checking Data After Cleaning
  • XMM-Newton
• DAXA Classes and Functions
  • archive
  • mission
  • process
• Planned Features
• Getting Support
  • Contact

If you make use of DAXA in academic work, please cite the following software paper

@ARTICLE{2024arXiv241011954T,
    author = {{Turner}, David J. and {Pilling}, Jessica E. and {Donahue}, Megan and {Giles}, Paul A. and {Romer}, Kathy and {Gupta}, Agrim and {Wallage}, Toby and {Wang}, Ray},
     title = "{DAXA: Traversing the X-ray desert by Democratising Archival X-ray Astronomy}",
   journal = {arXiv e-prints},
  keywords = {Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics},
      year = 2024,
     month = oct,
       eid = {arXiv:2410.11954},
     pages = {arXiv:2410.11954},
       doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2410.11954},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
    eprint = {2410.11954},
 primaryClass = {astro-ph.IM},
    adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024arXiv241011954T},
   adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
}