The SFXC workshop
from
Sunday, 21 September 2025 (17:00)
to
Tuesday, 23 September 2025 (19:00)
Monday, 15 September 2025
Tuesday, 16 September 2025
Wednesday, 17 September 2025
Thursday, 18 September 2025
Friday, 19 September 2025
Saturday, 20 September 2025
Sunday, 21 September 2025
18:00
Ice-breaker reception [At ASTRON/JIVE venue]
Ice-breaker reception [At ASTRON/JIVE venue]
18:00 - 20:30
At ASTRON (via main entrance)
Monday, 22 September 2025
09:00
Theory 1
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions
09:00
(VLBI) Correlation 101
-
Bob Campbell
(
JIVE
)
09:45
Correlation preparation
-
Aard Keimpema
(
JIVE
)
Mark Kettenis
(
JIVE
)
10:30
coffee
coffee
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
Hybrid session 1
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions
11:00
Setting up the correlator
-
Aard Keimpema
(
JIVE
)
Mark Kettenis
(
JIVE
)
12:30
lunch
lunch
12:30 - 13:30
13:30
Hands-on 1: Getting everyone's correlator to run
-
Aard Keimpema
(
JIVE
)
Mark Kettenis
(
JIVE
)
Hands-on 1: Getting everyone's correlator to run
Aard Keimpema
(
JIVE
)
Mark Kettenis
(
JIVE
)
13:30 - 15:00
On a simple VLBI observation
15:00
Tea
Tea
15:00 - 15:30
15:30
Hands-on 2: Post-correlation processing
-
Marjolein Verkouter
(
Joint Institute for VLBI - ERIC
)
Hands-on 2: Post-correlation processing
Marjolein Verkouter
(
Joint Institute for VLBI - ERIC
)
15:30 - 16:15
Translating the SFXC output into more standard data format(s) for inspection and export/archiving Important URsL: - the workshop documentation https://jradcliffe5.github.io/sfxc_workshop_2025/correlation_post.html - the `jive-casa` package https://code.jive.eu/verkout/jive-casa - the `jplotter` Python package https://github.com/haavee/jiveplot.git
16:15
Q+A
16:15 - 17:00
18:25
Workshop dinner
Workshop dinner
18:25 - 20:55
The workshop dinner is held at: 't hof van Dwingeloo (https://hofvandwingeloo.nl) Drift 1 Dwingeloo The materials added to this provide route maps from the workshop venue (ASTRON's premises) to 't hof van Dwingeloo, and from there back to The Börken.
Tuesday, 23 September 2025
09:00
Hybrid 3: Pulsar processing
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions
09:00
Pulsar processing
-
Aard Keimpema
(
JIVE
)
Franz Kirsten
(
Onsala
)
09:30
Producing filterbank format output + run PSR tools
-
Franz Kirsten
(
Onsala
)
10:00
Pulsar gating
-
Franz Kirsten
(
Onsala
)
10:30
coffee
coffee
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
Hybrid 4: FRB Processing
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions
11:00
PRECISE processing
-
Franz Kirsten
(
Onsala
)
11:30
Semi-automated pulse processing
-
Aard Keimpema
(
JIVE
)
12:00
SFXC and duct-tape = single dish FRB workflow
-
Omar Ould-Boukattine
(
UvA, ASTRON
)
12:30
lunch
lunch
12:30 - 13:30
13:30
Hybrid 5: Wide-field processing
-
Jack Radcliffe
(
University of Manchester
)
Hybrid 5: Wide-field processing
Jack Radcliffe
(
University of Manchester
)
13:30 - 15:00
Bright source, two images, check fringes Same dataset as Day 1
15:00
Tea
Tea
15:00 - 15:30
15:30
Hybrid 6: Geodesy
-
Mark Kettenis
(
JIVE
)
Hybrid 6: Geodesy
Mark Kettenis
(
JIVE
)
15:30 - 16:15
Same dataset as Day 1; check Geo data on flexbuffs @ JIVE Running "sfxc2mark4", "pulse cal" (aka phase cal tone processing) Running "fourfit"
16:15
Future bells & whistles
16:15 - 17:00
Contributions
16:15
SFXC - the GPU version
-
Aard Keimpema
(
JIVE
)
16:25
SKA-VLBI
-
Jack Radcliffe
(
University of Manchester
)
Mark Kettenis
(
JIVE
)
16:35
User / community input discussion