STIX Tutorials

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

1 Data Acquisition

1.1 Download data from STIX data center

STIX data can be downloaded from the Data Center website. One can also use the data center python interface stixdcpy to query/download STIX data. stixdcpy 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

1.2 Download data from STIX archive server

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

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

[IDL imaging tutorial] [Online 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]