2007 Lake Arrowhead (California, USA)

2nd IACHEC meeting, 9-11 May 2007

Program

“Get up to the 2006 state” talks:

•  CAL Targets (K. Jahoda)
• CAL Management (E. Kendziorra)
• Standard Candles  (P. Pluchinsky)
• Error Treatment (H. Marshall)
• Action Items (M. Kirsch)

 
Update of important Calibration issues per Observatory:

• XMM (M. Kirsch, A. Pollock)
• Chandra (L. David)
• Suzaku (M. Ishida, H. Matsumoto, M. Kokobun)
• Swift 1(G. Sato. T. Sakamoto)  Swift 2 (A. Beardmore)
• INTEGRAL (J.P. Roques)
• RXTE (RR, KJ)

Standard Candle fitting working groups

• Concept of Fitting working groups and data base (M. Kirsch)

•     SC1: White Dwarfs (Chair: V. Burwitz)
  
•     SC2: Isolated Neutron Stars (Chair: F. Haberl)
  
•     SC3: Thermal SNR(Chair: P. Plucinsky)
  
•     SC4: NonThermal SNR (Chair: M. Ishida)
  
•     SC5: Clusters (Chair: J. Nevalainen)
  

Calibration target working groups

• Introduction of Calibration topic/targets working groups (M. Kirsch)
  

•     CT1: PSF Calibration (Chair: Read)
  
•     CT2: Energy & redistribution Calibration (CTI/Gain): (Chair C. Grant)
  
•     CT3: High spectral resolution Calibration (Chair: J. Cottam)
  
•     CT4: Timing Calibration (Chair: M. Kirsch)
  
•     CT5: Relative effective area Calibration (Chair: H. Marshall)
  

Summary of action items and agreements (M. Kirsch)

Additional Sessions:

• A Calibration Model (how to store, save cal information over 100 years) (A. Pollock)
  
• Discussion on error treatment (H. Marshall)
  

Evening Sessions

• The Crab (Richard Rothschild)
• Monitoring the Crab Pulsar with RXTE/HEXs
• Timing Crab analysis Suzaku (Yukikatsu Terada)
• Putting it all together: from white dwarfs to Crab using high spectral resolution: how accurate can we get? (Jelle Kaastra)
• PSRB1509-58 (Katja Pottschmidt)
• The other end of the energy range – up to 100 GeV (Denis Bastieri)

Participants  (35):

• Chandra
  • Herman Marshal   
    
  • Paul Plucinsky
  • Joseph DePasquale
  • Catherine Grant
  • Larry David 
  • Vadim Burwitz
  • Jennifer Posson-Brown
  • Vinay Kashyap
  • Mark Bautz
  • Deron Pease
  • Pete Ratzlaff
    
• INTEGRAL
  • Elisabeth Jourdain 
  • JP Roques
• RXTE
  • Rick Rothschild (HEXTE)
    
  • Keith Jahoda (PCA)
    
• Suzaku
  • Randall Smith
  • Eric Miller
  • Jean Cottam
  • Manabu Ishida (XRT)
  • Hironori Matsumoto (XIS)
  • Motohide Kokubun (HXD)
  • Yukikatsu Terada (HXD)
    
• Swift
  • Taka Sakamoto 
    
  • Goro Sato
  • Andy Beardmore  
• XMM
  • Marcus Kirsch (EPIC)        
    
  • Andy Pollock   (RGS)       
    
  • Martin Stuhlinger  (EPIC)  
    
  • Steve Sembay (EPIC-MOS)
    
  • Jelle Kaastra (RGS)
    
  • Eckhard Kendziorra  (EPIC-pn) 
    
  • Uli Briel (EPIC-pn)
• Cross mission
  
  • Jukka Nevalainen (cross mission cluster)
• Rosat 
  
  • Max Bonamente (Cluster)
• MAGIC, GLAST
  
  • Denis Bastieri