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

2 Data Acquisition

2.1 Download data from STIX data center with stixdcpy

STIX data can be downloaded from the Data Center website. One can use the data center python interface stixdcpy to query/download STIX data. With stixdcpy, users have access to the following types of data on STIX data center:

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

stixdcpy tutorial

2.2 Download data from STIX archive server

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

3 Data Preparation

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

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

4 Spectroscopy

[STIX OSPEX tutorial]

[STIX XSPEC tutorial]

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 tutorial]