SIXTE workshop 2024

We are happy to announce our next hands-on SIXTE workshop taking place November 6th to 8th 2024 at SRON in Leiden.

SIXTE is a software package for simulations of X-ray observations, which is used as the official end-to-end simulator for both current and future X-ray missions such as eROSITA and NewAthena. It can also be used as a tool for writing observing proposals for missions such as XRISM, as well as for the scientific analysis of existing observations with strong instrumental effects such as pileup.

The focus of the workshop is an introduction of SIXTE, including new features that were added to the next major release of SIXTE, SIXTE version 3. The workshop is therefore well suited to both, experienced and new users of SIXTE. A focus of the workshop will be on simulations for XRISM Resolve and Xtend and NewAthena WFI and X-IFU, as well on other future X-ray missions.

We will demonstrate these changes with simulations for NewAthena WFI and X-IFU, XRISM Resolve and Xtend as well as future X-ray missions.

After the introduction of the tools, participants can also receive assistance for setting up their own, more involved, simulations for observation proposals or scientific analysis.

The workshop will take place in person, with free, but mandatory registration. Admission will be on a first-come, first-served basis, with the number of participants being limited to 40.
Limited travel and accommodation grants will be made available to early career researchers (please specify needs in the registration form). We encourage all participants to consider traveling by train, to help reduce our carbon footprint.

More info and registration: https://indico.ifca.es/e/SIXTE2024

On behalf of the organizing committee: Maite Ceballos (IFCA (CSIC-UC)); Beatriz Cobo (IFCA (CSIC-UC)) Lea Dauner (FAU Erlangen-Nuernberg); Thomas Dauser (FAU Erlangen-Nuernberg); Christian Kirsch (FAU Erlangen-Nuernberg) Maximilian Lorenz (FAU Erlangen-Nuernberg); Neo Reinmann (FAU Erlangen-Nuernberg) Joern Wilms (FAU Erlangen-Nuernberg); Jelle de Plaa (SRON-Leiden); Liyi Gu (SRON-Leiden)