******* History ******* For a brief overview of the history and state-of-the-art in spectral timing, and for more information about the design and capabilities of Stingray, please refer to `Huppenkothen et al. (2019) `_. Stingray originated during the 2016 workshop `The X-ray Spectral-Timing Revolution `_: a group of X-ray astronomers and developers decided to agree on a common platform to develop a new software package. At that time, there were a number of official software packages for X-ray spectral fitting (XSPEC, ISIS, Sherpa, ...), but such a widely used and standard software package did not exist for X-ray timing, that was mostly the domain of custom, proprietary software. Our goals were to merge existing efforts towards a timing package in Python, following the best guidelines for modern open-source programming, thereby providing the basis for developing spectral-timing analysis tools. We needed to provide an easily accessible scripting interface, a GUI, and an API for experienced coders. Stingray's ultimate goal is to provide the community with a package that eases the learning curve for advanced spectral-timing techniques, with a correct statistical framework. Further spectral-timing functionality, in particularly command line scripts based on the API defined within Stingray, is available in the package `HENDRICS `_. A graphical user interface is under development as part of the project `DAVE `_. Previous projects merged to Stingray ==================================== * Daniela Huppenkothen's original Stingray * Matteo Bachetti's `MaLTPyNT `_ * Abigail Stevens' RXTE power spectra code and phase-resolved spectroscopy code * Simone Migliari's and Paul Balm's X-ray data exploration GUI commissioned by ESA Changelog ========= .. include:: ../CHANGELOG.rst Presentations ============= Members of the Stingray team have given a number of presentations which introduce Stingray. These include: - `2nd Severo Ochoa School on Statistics, Data Mining, and Machine Learning (2021) `_ - `9th Microquasar Workshop (2021) `_ - `European Week of Astronomy and Space Science (2018) `_ - `ADASS (Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems; meeting 2017, proceedings 2020) `_ - `AAS 16th High-Energy Astrophysics Division meeting (2017) `_ - `European Week of Astronomy and Space Science 2017 `_ - `Python in Astronomy (2016) `_