STIX Tutorials

1 Tutorials

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

1.1 STIX Data Center

• An overview of STIX data center
• STIX website tutorial

1.2 Access to STIX data

1.2.1 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 (science data only)

• Using python APIs stixdcpy

1.2.2 Download data from STIX archive server

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

1.3 Data Preparation

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

Cropping or combining STIX spectrogram FITS files (Python)

Converting STIX FITS files for use with XSPEC (Python)

1.4 Spectroscopy

[STIX OSPEX tutorial]

[STIX XSPEC tutorial (Python)]

1.5 Imaging

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

1.6 STIX + Other Instruments

1.6.1 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.

1.6.2 Multiple instrument spectroscopy

XSPEC/pyXSPEC tutorial

1.6.3 Reprojecting images

Map reprojection tutorial

Composite map plotting tutorial

1.7 Other STIX tutorials

• STIX Hands-on session prepared by Sophie Musset

2 How to cite our work

• STIX intrument paper: