May 23-25th, 9:00 am - 12:00 EDT
IACHEC hosted a virtual workshop in place of our in-person meeting planned for Virginia, USA, which we unfortunately saw necessary to cancel given the continued health and travel uncertainties.
This workshop covered three days, Monday through Wednesday, with special topics, IACHEC working groups, and a set of contributed talks.
Program
Monday 23 (9:00 – 12:00 EDT)
Lab-Astro Session
Zoom Video Part 1
- 09:00-09:05 Welcome
- 09:05-09:35 Maurice Leutenegger: Dissecting the physics of line strengths: how to use experiments to understand the strengths and limitations of atomic theory
- 09:35-10:05 Greg Brown: Laboratory measurements as calibration benchmarks for astrophysical X-ray spectroscopy
IXPE in-orbit Calibration
- 10:30-11:10 Fabio Muleri: IXPE in-orbit calibration
Zoom Video Part 2
- 11:10-11:25 Herman Marshall: Progress in Calibration Concordance
XMM Calibration Updates
- 11:15-11:45 Michael Smith: XMM calibration updates
- 11:45-12:00 Ivan Valtchanov: Introducing spatial CTI correction for XMM-Newton EPIC-pn
Tuesday 24 (9:00 – 12:00 EDT)
Zoom Video all day
- 09:00-09:15 Felix Fuerst: XMM cross-calibration with NuSTAR
Background Session
- 09:15-09:30 Hiromasa Suzuki: Spatial and temporal variations of the Chandra ACIS particle-induced background and development of a spectral-model generation tool
- 09:30-09:45 Craig Markwardt: Current and Future Tools for Modeling NICER Background
- 09:45-10:00 Michael Freyberg: eROSITA background
- 10:00-10:15 Brian Grefenstette: Modeling the NuSTAR background
- 10:30-10:45 Kip Kuntz: The XMM Quiescent Particle Background
- 10:45-11:00 Fabio Gastadello: A spectro-spatial model for the XMM-Newton background
- 11:00-11:15 Eric Miller: Disentangling detector and background effects at soft energies in X-ray CCDs
- 11:15-11:30 Steven Ehlert: A Probabilistic Method of Background Removal for High Energy AstrophysicsData
- 11:30-12:00 Background Discussion
Wednesday 25 (9:00 – 12:00 EDT)
Contributed Talks
Zoom Video Part 1
- 09:00-09:15 Tsubasa Tamba: Development of a new analysis framework for pileup data of X-ray CCDs based on Monte-Carlo simulation
- 09:15-09:30 Claudio Pagani: The SMILE-SXI Distortion Model
- 09:30-09:45 Daniel Wik: The NuSTAR Perspective on the Chandra/XMM-Newton Temperature Discrepancy in Galaxy Clusters
- 09:45-10:00 James Rodi: INTEGRAL/ISGRI Analysis of PSR B1509-58
- 10:00-10:15 Hannah Earnshaw: Reconstructing the NuSTAR PSF Using Single-laser Metrology
Zoom Video Part 2
- 10:30-10:45 Guido Risaliti: Cross-calibration of Chandra/XMM-Newton with Quasars
IACHEC Working Group Reports
- 10:45-11:45 WG reports
- Heritage: Kristin Madsen/Matteo Guainazzi/Keith Arnaud
- Calibration statistics: Vinay Kayshap
- Contamination: Herman Marshall
- Non-thermal SNR: Lorenzo Natalucci
- Timing: Yukikatsu Terada
- Thermal SNR: Paul Plucinsky
- Coordinated Observations: Karl Forster
- White Dwarfs and Isolated Neutron Stars: Vadim Burwitz/Craig Markwardt
- 11:45-12:00 Open floor discussion