Plot gallery
Remeis X-fig plot gallery
Please add your with slxfig created plots! Preferably format: clickable image of your final product, leading to the s-lang code (with or without comments). When uploading pictures, please don't forget to give them a unique name, as they are all stored in one directory.
Mike's Fancy Plots
Plotting spectra in the way of Mike's fancy plots
Plotting Model Components
Plotting individual model components
Color-coded maps with png and xfig
How to plot a color-coded map (landscape) using png and xfig
Two-dimensional histograms
banana-plot with coordinate system —Manfred Hanke
Compounds and multiplots
Compounds and multi-panel plots —Manfred Hanke
parameter-space sketches
Simple plots to sketch the meaning of sigma-values in 1-dim or 2-dim chi-squared parameter spaces. (MB: Be aware that the n-sigma projection of 2D contours on one parameter differs from the n-sigma levels obtained for only this parameter (1D), as the delta-chi^2 (or delta statistic) depends on the number of parameters.)
Author — Tobias Beuchert 2013-01-07 13:41
Orbit plot
Orbit plot of GX 301-2, including the average ASM lightcurve folded on the orbit. Version in better resolution (pdf). Author — Felix Fürst 2012-05-23 17:47
4 colorful landscapes
Color-coded maps of count-rate distribution in the pulse-profile for different epochs. Very similar to what is shown in an example: plotting color-coded maps with the png and xfig modules. Writing out the PNG with a separate routine is not neccessary anymore I think, code is a little oldish. Author — Felix Fürst 2012-05-23 17:55
Contour plot
Contour plot of the Cyclo line energy of XTE J1946+274. — Sebastian Mueller 2012-05-30 15:53
2D image contours
Map (2D histogram) of the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA) overplotted with iso-magnetic field lines of the Earth's magnetic field. — Natalie Hell
Colorful Cyg X-1 lightcurves
Combining RXTE-ASM, Swift-BAT and MAXI lightcurves of Cyg X-1 in one plot. The RXTE lightcurve is color-coded for the low/hard (blue) and the high/soft (red) state. The colors for Swift are the same as for RXTE at the same time, or, when the RXTE lightcurve stops, as during times with similar count rates. MAXI has its own scale from black (low/hard) to grey (high/soft). Additionally, times of Chandra observations won by our group are indicated (AO13 was scheduled but then canceled). — Natalie Hell & Ivica Miškovičová
Chandra coverage of Cyg X-1
Plot of the orbital coverage of Cyg X-1 with Chandra observations, including an example of how to calculate Roche lobes with isis. —Manfred Hanke
Wind structure in Cyg X-1
You may not know, but you can draw basically anything with slxfig! Here is a very nice example from Manfred's PhD thesis (see Fig. 2.62 in there for an interpretation), describing our idea of the wind structure in the Cyg X-1 system.
The plot includes a couple of very nice tricks. Slxfig provides a function to draw photons. The example also shows how to add existing eps files to the figure, and how to add your own functions to the structure saving the xfig plot. — Manfred Hanke
Linear-Logarithmic Axis
Another example of a user defined axis (partially linear and logarithmic). — Moritz Boeck
Plotting images with world coordinates
408 MHz and IRAS images of regions centered at the position of Cygnus X-1. The WCS module is used to show sky coordinates (galactic coordinate grid on the left, RA-DEC axis labels on the right)— Moritz Boeck
Skyplot of source positions
Random source positions shown in an Aitoff projection of the sky in RA and DEC. The Galactic Plane is highlighted. — Moritz Boeck
Electromagnetic Spectrum
Electromagnetic spectrum in energy, frequency and wavelength. Satellite energy ranges marked.
Original Script by Cornelia Müller
— Felicia Krauß
Monster Lightcurve Plot
Lightcurves from all all-sky monitors & time of individual pointed RXTE observations of Cyg X-1. — Victoria Grinberg
Periodic Table
Draw your own periodic table in only ~120 lines of code. Data is taken from the X-ray Data Booklet 2009. —
Natalie Hell
Relativistic photon trajectory
Sketch of a relativistic photon trajectory. NOTE: "lbscripts" are required to execute the script. The path is set in the Script correctly, otherwise please contact me. — Sebastian Falkner
Atomic processes
Make sketches of atomic processes such as di-electronic recombination (DR). Other possibilities include radiative recombination, auto-ionization, photo-ionization, ... —
Natalie Hell
Simple inset
Insets and shaded regions
Plotting the BAT-lightcurve of a source and shading specific regions as well as labeling them. Furthermore, adding an inset plot showing an epoch folding result here. —
Matthias Kühnel
Insets as zoom-ins
Plotting the BAT-lightcurve of a source and adding zooms into the lightcurve showing the available observations. —
Matthias Kühnel
Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
A schematic Hertzsprung-Russell diagram —
Andreas Irrgang
Colored data points
"Speedometer"-like colormap for data points —
Andreas Irrgang
3D Maser Disk
3D Maser disk and projections on 2D. —
Eugenia Litzinger
Angstrom and keV axes done properly in the same plot (axis coordinate transformation)
Simple but extremely useful axis transformation; works both ways in spite of the name —
Grinberg
Plotting in 3D, simple
An simple example how to create a 3D plot using vector transformations.
Sebastian Falkner
Plotting in 3D
An example how to create a 3D plot using vector transformations.
Sebastian Falkner
Calculating and plotting orbits in 3D
Calculation and plots of orbits in 3D
Matthias Kuehnel
It also defines additional TeX commands and packages for plotting purposes, such as using no bold face.
VLBI coordinates in 3D
Displaying VLBI coordinates in 3D
Tobias Beuchert
Plotting a fit model
How to plot a fit model in xfig to extend beyond the data. Felicia Krauss
Multipanel spectral model decomposition
Spectral model decompositions of a whole sample using multiplot. Compact and flexible code thanks to some clean file structuring and efficiently placed loops.—Marco Fink
Chi²-distribution and CDF
The Chi²-distribution and its according cumulative distribution function for a large number of degrees of freedom. Confidence levels are indicated in the CDF. Feel free to use it in your thesis.—Marco Fink
Polar Plot
In the isisscripts there is a function 'xfig_polarplot_new, with which provides an easy way to plot an individual adjustable polar plot. This plot is just one very simple example, for more information see 'isis> help xfig_polarplot_new'.—Sebastian Falkner
Xfig plot image
Other than the %plot_png function of the xfig_plot structure this function aims to plot images with a (given) ARBITRARY x/y-grid in a correct way (NOTE that .plot_png does not care for x/y values!). This also allows to plot images with logarithmic scales without any problems! In addition it is easy to plot gabbed images by just giving the x and y grid as bin_lo and bin_hi.
These plots are just two very simple examples, for more information see 'isis> help xfig_plot_image'.—Sebastian Falkner
Xfig plot colormap
The function 'xfig_plot_colormap' creates a horizontal, vertical colormap/colorscale for a given image. For more information see 'isis> help xfig_plot_colormap'.—Sebastian Falkner
Skymap with error circles
How to plot a circles in spherical coordinates in a Hammer-Aitoff projection. (Or: how to plot the intersection of a sphere with a plane) Felicia Krauss