Welcome to the X-ray data analysis workshop at Tuebingen

Welcome to the X-ray data analysis workshop at Tuebingen#

By Menglei Zhou and Honghui Liu

In November 2025, the Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen launched the X-ray Data Analysis Workshop. The workshop is designed to provide hands-on training in the reduction and analysis of X-ray data from major space missions, while fostering collaboration and knowledge exchange among students and researchers in high-energy astrophysics.

What?#

The goal of this workshop is to provide instruction on data reduction and analysis for data from X-ray missions, including NuSTAR, NICER, IXPE, Insight-HXMT, XMM-Newton, Chandra, XRISM. It will also contain lectures about X-ray spectral fitting, timing techniques and polarimetry. No prior experience is required. The workshop will start from the ground level and is relevant for anyone interested in skills of X-ray data reduction and analysis.

When & Where?#

The workshop will usually be held weekly in the afternoon of Wednesday from 16:00 to 18:00 at A210, Sand 1, 72076, Tuebingen, Germany. The agenda is below and will be kept updated.

Agenda#

  • 29.04.2026: Assessing systematic uncertainties from spectral re-analysis of Cyg X-1 with different coronal geometries

    • Speaker: Abdurakhmon Nosirov

  • 06.05.2026: Searching for isolated black holes near the Solar system

    • Speaker: Abdurakhmon Nosirov

  • 13.05.2026: Pulsar timing (Part II)

    • Lecturers: Shuaitongze Zhao

    • Phase-resolved spectroscopy, phase-resolved X-ray polarimetric analysis, RVM model for X-ray pulsars

  • Next: From equation of state (EoS) to mass-radius relation of neutron stars

    • Lecturer: Konstantinos Kourmpetis

  • Next: Walkthrough of XMM-Newton data analysis

  • Next: Walkthrough of Insight-HXMT data analysis

  • Next: Data analysis for extended sources (e.g., SNR, bubbles, Galactic center, galaxy clusters)

  • Next: MCMC simulations and Bayesian analysis with XSPEC

  • Next: High-resolution X-ray spectroscopy (XMM/RGS, Chandra/HETG, XRISM)

  • Next: Multi-wavelength analysis

  • Next: Coded masking

  • Next: How to write an observational proposal?

Updated on 09 Feb 2026.

Tutorials & scripts#

See tutorials below for data reduction and analysis.

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