Decoding the thermal history of merging cluster Cygnus A (Part 1)

Data reproduction package for the paper "Decoding the thermal history of merging cluster Cygnus A" by Anwesh Majumder, M.W. Wise, A. Simionescu, M.N. de Vries (published in MNRAS). This is part 1. Part 2 can be found here: 10.5281/zenodo.10462251 Arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.02912 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae063 Raw data: The Chandra and XMM data can be downloaded from https://cda.harvard.edu/chaser/ and http://nxsa.esac.esa.int/nxsa-web/#search . See the 'Data' section of the paper to know what to download. Any additional data source has been mentioned in the paper as footnotes. Software required: CIAO (https://cxc.cfa.harvard.edu/ciao/) XMM-SAS (https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/download-and-install-sas) Jupyter Notebook and Python-3.7 or higher (https://jupyter.org) MARX (https://space.mit.edu/cxc/marx/) SIMPUT (https://www.sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de/sixte/installation/) PyxSIM (https://hea-www.cfa.harvard.edu/~jzuhone/pyxsim/) This upload contains XMM and Chandra data analysis files and notebooks. There are README files inside directories. Untar these files to get a description.