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 use the data center python interface stixdcpy to query/download STIX data. stixdcpy allows querying, downloading and plotting 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

Getting trajectory data and performing coordinate transformations

5.2 Multiple instrument spectroscopy

XSPEC/pyXSPEC tutorial

5.3 Reprojecting images

Map reprojection tutorial

[composite map tutorial]