Published April 21, 2026
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SPEX X-ray spectral fitting package
Authors/Creators
- 1. SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research
Contributors
Researcher (44):
- Alkemade, Frans
- Bartelds, Gert-Jan
- Behar, Ehud1
- Blustin, Alex
- Costantini, Elisa2
- Duysens, Max
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Dwiriyanti, Christina2
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Ebrero, Jacobo
- Eggenkamp, Irma
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Fludra, Andrzej
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Grange, Yan
- Gronenschild, Ed
- Gunsing, Theo
- Hansen, Jorgen
- Hartmann, Wouter
- van der Heyden, Kurt
- Jansen, Fred
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Kuiper, Lucien2
- Lemen, Jim
- Liedahl, Duane3
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Mao, Junjie
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Mazzotta, Pasquale
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Mehdipour, Missagh
- Mewe, Rolf2
- Nieuwenhuijzen, Hans2
- van den Oord, Bert
- Phillips, Ken
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Pinto, Ciro
- van der Rijst, Remco
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Rogantini, Daniele
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Sawada, Makoto
- Schrijver, Hans
- Schrijver, Karel
- Schut, Tiemen
- Steenbrugge, Katrien
- Sylwester, Janusz
- Smeets, Rob
- Stil, Jeroen
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Urdampilleta, Igone
- Verner, Dima
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Vink, Jacco
- van der Wolf, Frank
- Zeegers, Sascha
- Zycki, Piotr
- 1. Department of Physics, Technion, Haifa, Israel
- 2. SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research
- 3. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, USA
Description
SPEX is a software package for fitting astrophysical X-ray spectra. It has been developed since the 1970s at SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research. SPEX is an interactive command-line program for the computation of emergent spectra of optically thin plasmas such as stellar coronal loop structures, supernova remnants (also including transient ionization effects), photo-ionized plasmas, and optically thick plasmas. These model spectra can be fitted to measured X-ray spectra from various X-ray observatories, like XMM-Newton and Chandra. SPEX has been optimized for high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy, which makes it especially suitable for analyzing grating and micro-calorimeter spectra.
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Related works
- Is supplement to
- http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1996uxsa.conf..411K (URL)