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Observing in High Energy Astrophysics

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This chapter discusses the preparation of observations in high energy astrophysics, the signal to noise ratio for different telescope systems, and the techniques of data analysis for the different astronomies previously presented.

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Notes

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    https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/software/tools/pimms.html.

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    https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/lheasoft/.

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    http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/fits_primer.html.

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    https://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/H5.format.html.

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    http://ds9.si.edu/site/Home.html.

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    http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/software/ftools/fv/.

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    http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/software/ftools/ftools_menu.html.

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    Rosa Poggiani

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Poggiani, R. (2017). Observing in High Energy Astrophysics. In: High Energy Astrophysical Techniques. UNITEXT for Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44729-2_17

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