Spectral Fitting and XSPEC

• Introduction
• The Basics of Spectral Fitting
• The XSPEC implementation
  • C(I): The Observed Spectrum
  • R(I,E): The Instrumental Response
  • f(E): The Model Spectrum
  • Fits and Confidence Intervals
• Helpful Hints
  • Scripts and the Save command
  • How to return to the XSPEC> prompt
  • Simulations
  • Plotting Devices and Hardcopy
  • Data groups
  • What to do when you have small numbers of counts
  • Binning and Grouping data
  • How to shut XSPEC up (somewhat)
  • References