15–19 Sept 2025
Cefalù (Palermo)
Europe/Rome timezone

Spectral-timing made easy with Stingray

16 Sept 2025, 19:08
2m
Palazzo Municipale - Sala delle Capriate (Cefalù (Palermo))

Palazzo Municipale - Sala delle Capriate

Cefalù (Palermo)

Cefalù (Palermo)

Speaker

Dr Eleonora Veronica Lai (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

Description

Spectral-timing analyses are a key tool to investigate the innermost region in accreting X-ray sources.
However, when encounter them, such techniques can appear strenuous to implement and use in an easy way. An advantageous way is to rely on well-maintained and reliable software such as Stingray.
Stingray is an open-source Python library that is able to compute the main Fourier analyses techniques, comprising not only power and cross-spectral analyses, but also supporting data handling of the main X-ray missions.
In this brief talk, I will illustrate how Stingray is able to perform advanced techniques just with a few lines of code, effectively easing the learning curve for young researchers and accelerating the analysis process for experienced astronomers.

Affiliation Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) OACa

Author

Dr Eleonora Veronica Lai (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

Presentation materials