Introduction

This chapter comprises a brief description of the basics of spectral fitting, their application in XSPEC, and some helpful hints on how to approach particular problems. We then provide more details on the way XSPEC provides flexibility in its approach to the minimization problem. We also describe the data formats accepted.




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