STIX Tutorials

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

1 Data Acquisition

1.1 Accessing data from STIX data center

STIX data can be downloaded from the Data Center. A Python API is available: stixdcpy. This allows querying and downloading the following data:

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

Tutorial

2 Data Preparation

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

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

3 Spectroscopy

[STIX OSPEX tutorial]

[STIX XSPEC tutorial]

4 Imaging

[Data Center imaging tutorial]

[IDL imaging tutorial]

5 STIX + Other Instruments

5.1 Checking for joint visibility

[using DRMS or SPICE kernels, coordinate transformation tutorial]

5.2 Multiple instrument spectroscopy

XSPEC/pyXSPEC tutorial

5.3 Reprojecting images

[Image reprojection tutorial]

[composite map tutorial]