Py-XMM-scripts

Warning: Development branch!!! (unstable)

Python scripts to automate the process of data reduction and generates scientific products from XMM-Newton data.

uses python's subprocess module to run sas tasks
uses python's os module to manipulate folder paths and files
uses python's glob module to find files by name, path and regular expressions
uses astropy module to read relevant data from file headers, and manipulate files if necessary
- can substitute by the dprecated pyfits

Need to initialize HEASOFT and SAS environment apropriately beforehand