Dealing with dead time

Stingray implements a few features to deal with instrumental dead time. This is particularly useful in missions with long dead time, such as NuSTAR or IXPE. In this tutorial, we will show the effects of dead time on X-ray observations, and explain how Stingray can help model it and, under some conditions, even correct for it.

• Stingray’s dead time models
  • Non-paralyzable dead time
  • Paralyzable dead time
  • Periodogram - non-paralyzable
  • Reproduce Zhang+95 power spectrum? (extra check)
  • New dead time model function
• Fourier Amplitude Difference correction in Stingray