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

If you use the STIX web Tools in your research and publications, we would definitely appreciate an appropriate acknowledgment and citation! We suggest the following BibTex:

@misc{stixwebtools,
      author = {Hualin Xiao , Säm Krucker, Shane Maloney, Paolo Massa, Erica Lastufka, Andrea Francesco Battaglia, Ewan Dickson, Frederic Schuller},
      title = {STIX web tools: v2.0},
      year = 2022,
      url = {https://datacenter.stix.i4ds.net/}
}

2 Access to STIX data

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

2.2 Download data from STIX archive server

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

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)

4 Spectroscopy

[STIX OSPEX tutorial]

[STIX XSPEC tutorial (Python)]

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 plotting tutorial

7 Other STIX tutorials

• STIX Hands-on session prepared by Sophie Musset