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
17:00
Ice-breaker reception
Ice-breaker reception
17:00 - 20:00
Either at ASTRON or at De Börken?
Monday 22 September 2025
09:00
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
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
-
Mark Kettenis
(
JIVE
)
Aard Keimpema
(
JIVE
)
Hands-on 1: Getting everyone's correlator to run
Mark Kettenis
(
JIVE
)
Aard Keimpema
(
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
16:15
16:15 - 17:00
18:25
Workshop dinner
Workshop dinner
18:25 - 20:55
Tuesday 23 September 2025
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions
09:00
Pulsar processing
-
Aard Keimpema
(
JIVE
)
Franz Kirsten
(
Onsala
)
09:30
Pulsar gating
-
Franz Kirsten
(
Onsala
)
10:00
Producing filterbank format output + run PSR tools
-
Franz Kirsten
(
Onsala
)
10:30
coffee
coffee
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
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
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