Python packages for PyXspec

The following packages either build on PyXspec or have been found to be very useful with PyXspec.

If you have packages that you would like to advertise here, please contact the Xspec team.

• Bayesian X-ray Analysis by Johannes Buchner running on top of PyXspec or Sherpa. See Buchner et al. 2014.
• A simple example of using PyXspec in Jupyterlab from Ivan Valtchanov.
• Example PyXspec Jupyter notebooks.
• An example using virtual observatory methods to acquire a spectrum and PyXspec to analyze it.
• Jeremy Sanders' package to run xspec with emcee. Supports running multiple copies of xspec simultaneously on different machines.
• A python tool from Federico Garcia to make interactive corner plots based on xspec mcmc chains saved to FITS files.
• Python notebooks from the NICER-IXPE 2024 workshop, including demonstrations of using PyXspec with NICER and IXPE data.