# The Galaxy Cluster 'Pypeline' for X-ray Temperature Maps: ClusterPyXT

## TL;DR

ClusterPyXT is an open-source Python pipeline that automates the creation of detailed X-ray maps of galaxy clusters, facilitating rapid analysis of their physical processes and dynamics.

## Contribution

This paper introduces ClusterPyXT, a novel automated software pipeline for generating spectral and surface brightness maps from X-ray data of galaxy clusters.

## Key findings

- Enables rapid generation of X-ray temperature and density maps
- Automates analysis with minimal user input
- Open source release on GitHub

## Abstract

ClusterPyXT is a new software pipeline to generate spectral temperature, X-ray surface brightness, pressure, and density maps from X-ray observations of galaxy clusters. These data products help elucidate the physics of processes occurring within clusters of galaxies, including turbulence, shock fronts, nonthermal phenomena, and the overall dynamics of cluster mergers. ClusterPyXT automates the creation of these data products with minimal user interaction, and allows for rapid analyses of archival data with user defined parameters and the ability to straightforwardly incorporate additional observations. In this paper, we describe in detail the use of this code and release it as an open source Python project on GitHub.