Generation of global/core-excised Chandra spectra #1265
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enhancement
New feature or request
telescope specific
Changes specifically for one telescope supported by XGA, rather than the overall infrastructure
At the end of this task we should have the ability to make Chandra spectra in global apertures (i.e. from radius of zero to some user-defined outer radius), and to make them in 'core-excised' apertures (from some inner radius to some outer radius, both user-defined).
We'll use specextract, which will be lovely because it'll basically do everything we need.
Some general notes/thoughts:
The first tangible step for this task would be to create a 'spec' section in generate.ciao, then create an internal function (so with a '_' at the beginning of the name) called _chandra_spec_cmds or something - that is the same setup we use for XMM, and if we write _chandra_spec_cmds properly, it will be useful both for global/core-excised spectra and (later on) annular spectra.
When you look at the XMM spectrum functions you can ignore all of the bits which are todo with generating spectra within 'region' (so with outer_radius = 'region') - that is a legacy option left over from an older version of XGA and will be removed.
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