We have released a new version of SIXTE! For existing users seeking to adjust their existing scripts, please check this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n SIXTE is a software package for X-ray telescope observation simulations developed at the Remeis Observatory (ECAP). It allows to undertake instrument performance analyses and to produce simulated event files for mission- and analysis studies.<\/p>\n The software strives to find a balance between exactness of the simulation and speed. For many cases, by using calibration files such as the PSF, RMF and ARF, efficient simulations are possible at comparably high speed, even though they include nonlinear effects such as pileup. Setups for some current and future missions such as XMM-Newton or Athena are included in the package, others can be added by the user with relatively little effort through specifying the main instrument characteristics in a flexible, human-readable XML-based format.<\/p>\n We, the SIXTE Team, have prepared all the information you need to get started with SIXTE right here on this website:<\/p>\n If you use results obtained with SIXTE in a publication, please cite as: “This research has made use of the SIXTE software package (Dauser et al., 2019) provided by ECAP\/Remeis observatory (https:\/\/github.com\/thdauser\/sixte<\/a>).”<\/p>\n\n\n\nSIXTE – Simulation of X-ray Telescopes<\/h3>\n\n\n
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SIXTE Simulator Manual<\/h3>\n\n\n\n