STIX data center

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STIX data center is a virtual server hosted at FHNW.

1 STIX Data Center tasks

Its tasks include

• Process STIX raw data & produce high level data products
• Monitor Data quality and instrument health status
• Provide data products and data browsing tools for the Solar Physics Community
• Support STIX operations
• Data archiving

2 STIX data center architecture

The data flow at STIX data center is shown in the picture below:

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Data processing SW mainly written in python. NoSQL DB (MongoDB) used to stored telemetry packets, file metadata and configurations

3 Key Algorithms

3.2 Flare identification

Quick-look light curves in the energy range from 4 - 10 keV are used for flare identification. 4-sec time bins are first rebinned to 1-min time bins in order to smooth light curves.

Then the smoothed light curves are used to search for peaks. A flare is considered being detected if a peak satisfies several conditions as follows:

• The peak counts is above 2 sigma of the background.

4 Source code

The source code can be found at:

• Data processing pipeline: https://github.com/i4Ds/STIX_python_PUB023
• STIX data center web applications: https://github.com/i4Ds/STIX-data-center

5 Developers

• Data processing software & data processing pipeline developers
  • Hualin Xiao
  • Shane Maloney

• Data center
  • Hualin Xiao