The Journal of Open Source Software • Vol 9 • No 100
XRTpy: A Hinode-X-Ray Telescope Python Package
August 2024 • Joy Velasquez, Nicholas A. Murphy, Katharine K. Reeves, Jonathan D. Slavin, Mark Weber, Will Barnes
The XRTpy Python package is a specialized tool developed for the analysis of observations made by the X-Ray Telescope (XRT) (Golub et al., 2007) aboard the Hinode spacecraft (Kosugi et al., 2007).Hinode is a joint mission involving space agencies from Japan, the United States, and Europe, launched with the primary aim of providing multi-wavelength data from the photosphere to the upper corona, enabling continuous observations of the Sun.Within this mission, the XRT instrument stands out as a remarkable piece of te…