6–9 Oct 2025
Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP)
Europe/Berlin timezone

Program

Details for remote participation:

Zoom ID: 3620884100
Zoom URL: https://eu02web.zoom-x.de/j/3620884100
Zoom Passcode: 874818

Monday 6 October

14:00 - 14:05 : Welcome (K. Poppenhäger)
14:05 - 14:10 : Logistics (F. Schuller / A. Warmuth)

Session 1: Hardware status

14:10 - 14:25 : Status of the STIX instrument (S. Krucker)
14:40 - 14:55 : Detector and energy calibration update (O. Limousin)
15:10 - 15:25 : Update on the Aspect system (F. Schuller)
15:30 - 16:15 : Coffee break

Session 2: Software status

16:15 - 16:30 : Update on stixpy and data pipeline (S. Maloney)
16:40 - 16:55 : A brief update on the status of Sunkit-spex (J. Mitchell)
17:05 - 17:20 : Self-calibration of the STIX sub-collimator transmission (P. Massa)

Tuesday 7 October

Session 3: Flare catalogues

09:30 - 09:45 : A catalog of flaring events in STIX QL data (M. Stęślicki)
09:55 - 10:10 : A statistical study of hard X-Ray lightcurves observed by STIX (O. Flor)
10:20 - 10:35 : STIX-HXI events catalogue (T. Mrozek)
10:45 - 11:30 : Coffee break

Session 4: Imaging software

11:30 - 11:45 : Multi-scale CLEAN for STIX (A. M. Massone)
11:55 - 12:10 : Calibration of the MARLINPy algorithm using flare footpoint observations (A. Kopacz)
12:20 - 12:35 : 3D reconstruction of solar flares (B. Palumbo)

13:00 - 14:00 : Lunch

Session 5: Flares and particles

14:00 - 14:30 : High-Resolution measurements by EPD on Solar Orbiter (R. Wimmer-Schweingruber)
14:40 - 14:55 : CoSEE-Cat: the next steps (A. Warmuth)
15:05 - 15:20 : Toward a resolution of the acceleration efficiency issue in solar flares (M. Piana)
15:30 - 16:15 : Coffee break

Session 6: Flares and radio bursts

16:15 - 16:30 : Energy diagnostics of flare-accelerated beams using X-ray and radio data from Solar Orbiter (N. Vilmer / D. Paipa)
16:40 - 16:55 : Investigation of a flare related to a set of slowly positively drifting bursts (SPDBs) (A. Zemanova)

18:30 - 21:30 : Dinner in restaurant “El Puerto”

Wednesday 8 October

Session 7: Multi-instrument observations

09:30 - 09:45 : Coronal diagnostics from X-ray overlapograms: Second flight of Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrometer (B. Mondal)
09:55 - 10:10 : Radio, X-ray, and EUV signatures of internal and external reconnection of erupting flux rope (J. Kašparová)
10:20 - 10:35 : Imaging thermal pulsations with STIX (S. Krucker)
10:45 - 11:30 : Coffee break

11:30 - 12:00 : SO/PHI on Solar Orbiter - Science highlights and ideas for coordinated observations with STIX (J. Hirzberger)
12:10 - 12:25 : X-ray diagnosis of complex filament eruption processes (S. Tan)
12:35 - 12:50 : Investigating the transience of solar flare energy release with data from the 2024 major flare campaign of Solar Orbiter (H. Collier)

13:00 - 14:00 : Lunch

Session 8: Multi-thermal components

14:00 - 14:15 : Thermal emission in X-class flares: Hot and superhot components (M. Stiefel)
14:25 - 14:40 : Imaging of the multi-thermal emission measure from STIX observations (A. Guidetti)
14:50 - 15:05 : Common interpretation of STIX and GOES observed fluxes: Tests, iso- and multithermal approach, problems and first results (J. Sylwester)
15:15 - 16:00 : Coffee break

16:00 - bus to Telegrafenberg - visit Einstein Tower

Thursday 9 October

09:30 - 09:45 : The Mercury’s bow shock models near perihelion and aphelion (Peishan He)
09:55 - 10:10 : Initial results from an analysis of a small sample of STIX spectra using python (J. Mitchell)
10:30 - 11:15 : Coffee break

11:15 - 12:30 : Discussion and future plans

12:30 : End of plenary meeting

Thursday afternoon: splinter meetings