Starting in the early seventies (Mewe 1972) Rolf Mewe and his colleagues of the Space Research Laboratory in Utrecht started developing a spectral code for the X-ray emission of optically thin plasmas. A milestone was reached in 1985 and 1986, when two papers describing the line emission (Mewe et al. 1985) and continuum emission (Mewe …
Category: SPEX CODE
Physics
Spectral line lists For convenience of users, a list of spectral lines with intensities has been produced. This list may serve primarily as a quick guide to identify lines in an observed spectrum and to recognize the most important lines at a given temperature. This list should not be used to produces specific emissivity codes, …
Troubleshooting
If you have a problem with SPEX, then please first try the following to solve it: If nothing of the above has provided you with a solution to the problem, then please report an issue to our Github issue tracker. Please mention the version of SPEX you are using, your operating system (e.g. Ubuntu, High …
FAQ
On this page we list a number of common questions regarding SPEX. Please note that we also maintain a Github issue tracker which lists questions and problems that users encountered while using SPEX. Perhaps someone else has had the same problem and the solution is already online: https://github.com/spex-xray/spex-help/issues On this page, questions and …
Change log
Below we list the changes and new features in the stable version of SPEX. Stable bugfix release (3.08.01) Changes in SPEX 3.08.01: Changes in SPEXACT 3.08.01: Stable release (3.08.00) Changes in SPEX 3.08.00: Changes in SPEXACT 3.08.00: Stable bugfix release (3.07.03) This is a release which fixes a couple of urgent issues in SPEX version …
Docker
We also provide a Docker image with a SPEX installation which can run on any platform supported by Docker. To use this option, you first need to install Docker on your machine. See this link for instructions. When the docker application is installed, you can download the SPEX image from the docker cloud: docker pull spexxray/spex:latest If the image is downloaded …
Linux & Mac OS
The current stable version of SPEX is 3.08.01 and is available for 64-bit Linux systems and Mac OSX. If you are running the older SPEX 3.08.00 version or earlier, we strongly recommend to update! Download the installation files or the tar file below and read the installation instructions below. For more detailed install instructions see …
Manual
Getting started with SPEX has become easier because of the development of new guides and manuals. We combined all the manuals in an online help center: SPEX Help Center If you prefer a PDF manual, the manual can be downloaded from Zenodo. Tip: You can search our manuals also using Google. Just type ‘site:spex-xray.github.io <search>’ …
Download
Welcome to the download page of SPEX. The current version is 3.08.01, which was released on 2024-07-18. SPEX is available for Linux 64-bit (glibc >=2.31) and Mac OSX >=12 (Monterey). Please see the available downloads for Linux and Mac OS here: SPEX 3.08.01 for Linux and Mac OS SPEX on Docker SPEX is also available …
SPEX
SPEX is an X-ray spectral analysis software package optimized for the interpretation of high-resolution astrophysical X-ray spectra. The software is especially suited for fitting spectra obtained by current X-ray observatories like XMM-Newton, Chandra, Suzaku, and Hitomi. SPEX will be continuously improved to handle spectra from high-resolution X-ray instruments on future missions like Athena. The advantages …
