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FERMI SOLAR DATA ANALYSIS USING OSPEX Kim Tolbert The Catholic University of America and Goddard Space Flight Center August 22-23, 2012 1 Fermi Solar Data Analysis Workshop at GSFC [email protected]

Fermi SOLAR Data Analysis Using OSPEX

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Kim Tolbert The Catholic University of America a nd Goddard Space Flight Center. Fermi SOLAR Data Analysis Using OSPEX. OSPEX. O bject-oriented interface for X-ray spectral analysis of solar data Distributed in SSWIDL. OSPEX runs in SSWIDL. IDL Proprietary OSPEX needs IDL > 6.1 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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FERMI SOLAR DATA ANALYSIS USING OSPEX

Kim Tolbert

The Catholic University of Americaand

Goddard Space Flight Center

August 22-23, 2012

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Object-oriented interface for X-ray spectral analysis of solar data

Distributed in SSWIDL

August 22-23, 2012

OSPEX

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OSPEX runs in SSWIDL

IDL Proprietary OSPEX needs IDL > 6.1

SSW (SolarSoftware) IDL routines for solar data analysis Publicly available GEN, SPEX, XRAY branches Updated regularly

IDL and SSW installed in FermiVM for this workshop

Temporary IDL license expires August 31, 2012August 22-23, 2012

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OSPEX

Currently handles RHESSI spectrum and image cube Fermi CSPEC, CTIME, and LAT PHA2 or LLE XSM SOXS MESSENGER YOHKOH WBS User-provided spectrum

Any time-ordered count spectrum data with response information can be added

August 22-23, 2012

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OSPEX negatives

Requires purchase of IDL license

Analyze single data source Simultaneous fitting of multiple

instruments (or detectors) is planned

Chi-square fitting only Problematic with low count rates C-statistic fitting is planned

August 22-23, 2012

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OSPEX Positives

Any OS

Graphical interface, or command line, or BOTH

Multiple fit analysis intervals

View and save results

Save setup script

PLOTMAN simplifies graphic manipulations

Flexible design allows for adding new data easily

SSW – view/analyze Fermi event as observed by other instruments

August 22-23, 2012

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OSPEX documentation

OSPEX User Guide

What’s New in OSPEX

OSPEX Object Parameter Tables

Available via Help button on OSPEX GUI

August 22-23, 2012

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OSPEX Steps

1. Start OSPEX2. Select Input3. Define background time interval(s)4. Define analysis time interval(s)5. Select spectral model component(s)6. Fit intervals7. View results8. Save results and script

9. Run script and import results10.View results

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Starting OSPEX

Start SSWIDL sswidl sswidlde &

o = ospex()

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Using OSPEX

o is reference to ospex object Use o at command line

orthrough GUI simultaneously

Click Refresh button in widgets to display changes from command line

August 22-23, 2012

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OSPEX Example

Sample analysis of BGO data for 12 June 2012 M2 event

1. Step-by-step from beginning2. Import previously-computed setup and

fits

Details at http://hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov/~kim/Fermi%20Solar%20Workshop%202012/OSPEX_step_by_step.htm

August 22-23, 2012