{"id":38,"date":"2022-04-28T08:27:51","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T08:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de\/sixte\/?page_id=38"},"modified":"2026-07-31T15:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T15:46:07","slug":"instruments","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de\/sixte\/instruments\/","title":{"rendered":"Instruments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Instrument files<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In order to set up a simulation for a particular X-ray instrument, additional files such as the Point Spread Function of the respective telescope or the detector response matrix are required. For most currently supported instruments these files are available in a separate. To use SIXTE for the Einstein Probe mission, you can use their web interface: <a href=\"http:\/\/epfxt.ihep.ac.cn\/simulation\">http:\/\/epfxt.ihep.ac.cn\/simulation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For other missions, the calibration files have to be installed in the same directory as the instrument definition files contained in SIXTE, i.e., the directory&nbsp;<em>sixtedir\/share\/<\/em>&nbsp;(where&nbsp;<em>sixtedir<\/em>&nbsp;denotes the location defined by the&nbsp;<em>&#8211;prefix<\/em>&nbsp;directive of configure).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can find all available instrument files below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:15%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Mission<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Athena WFI<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Athena X-IFU<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">eRosita<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AXIS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">XRISM<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">XMM<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NuSTAR<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:55%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Filename<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de\/~sixte\/downloads\/sixte\/instruments\/instruments_athena-wfi-1.12.1.tar.gz\" data-type=\"URL\">instruments_athena-wfi-1.12.1.tar.gz<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x-ifu.irap.omp.eu\/en\/resources\/for-the-community\">(external download)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de\/~sixte\/downloads\/sixte\/instruments\/instruments_srg-1.9.2.tar.gz\">instruments_srg-1.9.2.tar.gz<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de\/~sixte\/downloads\/sixte\/instruments\/instruments_axis-4.0.0.tar.gz\" data-type=\"URL\">instruments_axis-4.0.0.tar.gz<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de\/~sixte\/downloads\/sixte\/instruments\/instruments_xrism-1.3.0.tar.gz\">instruments_xrism_1.3.0.tar.gz<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Coming Soon!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Coming Soon!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:15%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Last Changes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>2026-07-14<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>2026-05-02<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>2024-11-04<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>2025-05-08<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>2025-09-29<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:15%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Size<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2.7 GB<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">592.6 MByte<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">138 MByte<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">848 MByte<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">411 MByte<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Move the files to&nbsp;<code>sixtedir<\/code>&nbsp;and unpack them in the existing data tree. For the complete data archive the commands to achieve this are the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>mv instruments_all-x.y.z.tar.gz $SIXTE\/ \ncd $SIXTE \ntar xvzf instruments_srg-1.9.2.tar.gz<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After these steps the simulation software is ready for use. An observation can then be run with the following tool:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>$SIXTE\/bin\/sixtesim<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"supplementary\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Supplementary Files<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Straylight event files of astrophysical backgrounds equivalent to 3.2 Ms of observations for the NewAthena WFI are provided below. Please read the README.md contained in the tarball before running simulations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:15%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Mode<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Linescan<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:55%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Filename<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de\/~sixte\/downloads\/sixte\/supplementary\/straylight_NewAthena.tar.gz\">straylight_NewAthena.tar.gz<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:15%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Last Changes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>2026-07-31<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:15%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Size<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1.3 GiB<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instrument files In order to set up a simulation for a particular X-ray instrument, additional files such as the Point Spread Function of the respective telescope or the detector response matrix are required. 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