Name: The SFXC workshop
Start: 2025-09-21T17:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-09-23T19:00:00+02:00
Location: No location set

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

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