Announcements#
HEACIT active on BlueSky#
The HEACIT working group is now also active on BlueSky. We will post from time to time about HEACIT activities and topics that are interesting for software developers in the (high-energy) astrophysics field.
You can find us using the handle @heacit.bsky.social.
SIXTE Workshop 2024#
We are happy to announce our next hands-on SIXTE workshop taking place at SRON in Leiden from November 6th to 8th 2024.
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 as other future X-ray missions.
You can find the registration page and more information here: https://indico.ifca.es/event/3230/