Welcome to the IACHEC page

The IACHEC aims to provide standards for high energy calibration and supervise cross calibration between different missions. This goal is reached through working groups, where IACHEC members cooperate to define calibration standards and procedures. The scope of these groups is primarily a practical one: a set of data and results (eventually published on refereed journals) will be the outcome of a coordinated and standardized analysis of references sources ("high-energy standard candles"). Past, present and future high-energy mission can use these results as a calibration reference.

Working Groups

  • Future Missions
  • Methodology
  • Calibration targets
    • Effective areas
    • Response matrices, Energy Calibration
    • High Resolution
    • Timing
  • Standard Candles
    • White Dwarfs
    • Isolated Neutron Stars
    • Thermal SNR
    • Non-Thermal SNR
    • Clusters

Meetings (with Talks)

Active Observatories involved

News:

The 5th IACHEC Meeting will take place from April 12 to 15, 2010 at the Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Massachusetts, U.S.A). Participants should fill and send the pre-registration form by March 10, 2010.

Useful Links