STIX Tutorials

This is a collection of tutorials prepared by the STIX team and other partners.

1 STIX Data Center

• An overview of STIX data center
• STIX website tutorial

2 Data Acquisition

2.1 Download data from STIX data center

STIX data can be downloaded from the Data Center website on https://datacenter.stix.i4ds.net/view/list/fits or https://datacenter.stix.i4ds.net/view/list/bsd. One can use the data center python interface stixdcpy to query/download STIX data. With stixdcpy, users have access to the following types of data on STIX data center:

• Quick-look light curves
• Housekeeping data
• Science data
• Energy calibration data
• Auxiliary data (ephemeris, pointing, light travel time, etc.)
• STIX solar flare list

stixdcpy tutorial

2.2 Download data from STIX archive server

• STIX science data can also be downloaded from STIX archive server.
• stixpy

3 Data Preparation

[ (coming soon) Troubleshooting STIX image maps - IDL]

[ (coming soon) Troubleshooting STIX image maps - Python]

4 Spectroscopy

[STIX OSPEX tutorial]

[STIX XSPEC tutorial]

5 Imaging

• [IDL imaging tutorial]
• STIX imaging with web tools

6 STIX + Other Instruments

6.1 Checking for joint visibility

Getting trajectory data and performing coordinate transformations

Webtool for trajectory data and joint visibility of STIX-observed solar flares from AIA, STIX and STEREO-A.

6.2 Multiple instrument spectroscopy

XSPEC/pyXSPEC tutorial

6.3 Reprojecting images

Map reprojection tutorial

[composite map tutorial]

7 Other STIX tutorials

• STIX Hands-on session prepared by Sophie Musset