2017 CIAO Workshop in Pune, India
Previous CIAO WorkshopsMembers of the CXC are traveling to Pune, India, to present a week long CIAO and Chandra data analysis workshop from 23-27 October 2017. Some talks will be presented remotely.
Students are required to bring their own laptop with the latest CIAO installed for the hand-on session. Students should also install MARX using the install_marx script if possible.
Workshop Photo
Exercises
A workbook with CIAO exercises has been provided for this workshop. Students will need to download the data for the following observations, OBS_ID: 13858, 13736, and 635.
Schedule
The scheduled is shown below
| Time | Speaker | Topic |
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| Monday, 23 October 2017 | ||
| 9:00 | Prof. S.K. Ghosh | Welcome (NCRA-TIFR) |
| 9:05 | Dhram/Ishwar/Antonella | Welcome (Organizers) |
| 9:15 | Mike Nowak | The Chandra X-ray Observatory, Instruments and Operations |
| 10:00 | Jonathan McDowell | Introduction to X-ray Data Analysis |
| 10:45 | Tea Break | |
| 11:15 | Kenny Glotfelty | Introduction to Chandra Data Products |
| 11:45 | Antonella Fruscione | An Introduction to CIAO |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | Vinay Kashyap | Statistics for High-Energy Astrophysics |
| 14:45 | CIAO Install Fest & Hands on session starts | |
| 15:30 | Tea Break | |
| 16:00 | Mike Nowak | NCRA Colloquim |
| 17:30 | Nick Lee | CIAO documentation and annotated Chandra Helpdesk Ticket Examples |
| 18:00 | Day one ends 
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| Tuesday, 24 October 2017 | ||
| 9:00 | Bill Joye | Introduction of SAOImage DS9 |
| 10:00 | Kenny Glotfelty | DAX in DS9 |
| 10:15 | Rudy Montez | X-ray Imaging |
| 11:00 | Tea Break | |
| 11:30 | Vinay Kashyap | Source Detection |
| 12:00 | Vinay Kashyap | Introduction to Calibration and CALDB |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | Diab Jerius | Chandra's PSF: Use it Wisely |
| 14:45 | Antonella Fruscione | Imaging Spectral Analysis aka Imaging Spectroscopy |
| 15:30 | Tea Break | |
| 16:00 | Rudolfo Montez | NCRA Colloquium |
| 17:30 | Hands on session continues | |
| 18:00 | Day two ends | |
| Wednesday, 25 October 2017 | ||
| 9:00 | Aneta Siemiginowska |
Introduction to Sherpa
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| 9:30 | Sherpa bootcamp, hands on 
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| 10:15 | Rodolfo Montez | Extended Sources |
| 11:30 | Mike Nowak | High Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | Gulab Dewangan | Science Talk : X-ray Emission from Active Galactic Nuclei |
| 14:45 | Hands on continues
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| 15:30 | Tea Break | |
| 16:00 | Hands on continues | |
| 17:30 | Day three ends | |
| Thursday, 26 October 2017 | ||
| 9:00 | Jonathan McDowell | Merginga and Combining Data |
| 9:45 | Mike Nowak Jonathan McDowell |
TGCat
CSC |
| 10:30 | Tea Break | |
| 11:00 | Mike Nowak | Timing Analysis |
| 12:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | Preeti Kharb | Science Talk : X-rays from AGN Jets |
| 14:45 | Hands on session | |
| 15:30 | Tea Break | |
| 16:00 | Hands on session | |
| 17:30 | Day four ends. | |
| Friday, 27 October 2017 | ||
| 9:00 | Hands on session | |
| 11:00 | Tea Break | |
| 11:30 | Hands on session | |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | Dhram/Ishwar/Antonella | Concluding remarks and end of workshop |
The workshop was mainly aimed at students and postdocs new to Chandra data.
Users looking to hone their CIAO skills could attempt some of the projects from one of the recent X-ray schools during the hands-on sessions.