2020 AAS235 Chandra/CIAO Workshop

Chandra/CIAO workshop at AAS 235, 2020 January 3&4, Honolulu, HI

chandra team and students

Members of the CXC will host a two day Chandra/CIAO workshop at the AAS 235 meeting in Honolulu, HI.

The workshop is mainly aimed at students and postdocs new to Chandra data.

Followup Survey

Please take a minute to complete a brief survey about your experience at the AAS235 Chandra/CIAO workshop. The survey will be open until 2020-02-01.

Thank you again for participating.

The preliminary workshop schedule is shown below.

Date/Time	Topic	Presenter
Friday, 3 January 2020
09:00-10:00	Welcome. Introduction to Chandra and X-ray Data Analysis	Jonathan McDowell
10:00-10:45	An Introduction to CIAO	Antonella Fruscione
10:45-11:15	Break
11:15-12:00	Using SAOImage ds9 and dax (slides) and notebooks & files (400Mb)	Antonella Fruscione
12:00-12:45	From archive to publication: a sample CIAO data analysis thread - Part I	Nick Lee
12:45-13:45	Lunch
13:45-14:30	Imaging Extended Source Analysis & Jupyter Notebooks ('Multi-Wavelength' notebook, 'Advanced Imaging' notebook)	Rudy Montez
14:30-14:35	Introduction to Hands on Session	Antonella Fruscione
14:35-18:00	Hands-on Session
Saturday, 4 January 2020
09:00-09:30	Imaging Spectral Analysis, aka Imaging Spectroscopy	Antonella Fruscione
09:30-10:15	Statistics for High-Energy Astrophysics (slides) and 'Simulations of Bias in Spectral Fitting' notebook & files	Vinay Kashyap
10:15-11:00	From archive to publication: a sample CIAO data analysis thread - Part II	Nick Lee
11:00-11:30	Break
11:30-12:15	High Resolution X-ray Spectra	Vinay Kashyap
12:15-13:00	Chandra Source Catalog 2.0	Francesca Civano
12:30-17:00	Lunch and Hands-on Session

Students new to CIAO may want to go through the exercises in the Chandra/CIAO Workbook, 2019 AAS223 edition.

We also have the exercises in the form a Jupyter notebook. You can download or view the blank notebook (without the answers); or you can download or view the completed notebook with the answers supplied.