2024 Parador de La Granja (Spain)

16th IACHEC meeting, 12 - 16 May 2024

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Meeting

The 16th IACHEC workshop was held at the Parador de LA Granja in Spain (https://paradores.es/en/parador-de-la-granja), about 1 hours drive from Madrid.

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Program

Monday 13 May

Mission Updates
Chair: Herman Marshall
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9:10 – 9:20 Welcome Kristin Madsen
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9:20 – 9:40 NuSTAR Karl Forster
9:40 – 10:00 Swift Andy Beardmore
10:00 – 10:20 Nicer Craig Markwardt
10:20 – 10:40 IXPE Stefano Silvestri
10:40 – 11:00 INTEGRAL Erik Kuulkers
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11:00 – 11:50 Break
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11:50 – 12:10 Insight-HXMT Xiaobo Li
12:10 – 12:30 XMM-Newton Michael Smith
12:30 – 12:50 Chandra Akos Bogdan
Special Session: Einstein Probe
Chair: Vadim Burwitz
12:50 – 13:10 Status of the commissioning of Einstein Probe Chen Zhang
13:10 – 13:30 Some Preliminary Results of EP-FXT in-orbit Calibration Chengkui Li
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13:30 – 15:00 Lunch
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15:00 – 15:20 An overview of EP-FXT Yong Chen
15:20 – 15:40 Ground calibration of FXT optics in IHEP Yusa Wang/Yuxuan Zhu
15:40 – 16:00 FXT performance in orbit comparison with ground Xiaofan Zhao
16:00 – 16:20 The in-flight background of EP/FXT Juan Zhang
16:20 – 16:40 On-ground calibration of the Wide-field X-ray telescope (WXT) on board Einstein Probe Huaqing Cheng
16:40 – 17:00 In-flight calibration of the Wide-field X-ray Telescope on board Einstein Probe Heyang Liu
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17:00 – 18:00 Break
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18:00 – 19:30 Detectors and Background Room 1
The SMILE-SXI tools to model and tackle the radiation damage effects Claudio Pagani
ACIS Calibration with Cas A Nick Durham
XMM-Newton EPIC-pn: update to the long-term CTI Ivan Valtchanov
Developing new technique to handle pileup Vinay Kayshap
18:00 – 19:30 Non-thermal SNR Room 2
Soft Gamma-ray Observations of the Crab with INTEGRAL/IBIS-PICsIT James Rodi
Reference Model for Crab Nebula and Pulsar Craig Markwardt

Tuesday 14 May

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Working Group
9:30 – 10:30 Calibration Statistics Room 1
Concordance Update with XMM/Chandra Blazars Herman Marshall
Statistics for use in X-ray Polarimetry Herman Marshall
10:30 – 11:00 High Resolution Room 1
HR1099 line fluxes and locations Chandra Vinay Kashyap
HR1099 with Resolve: Energy-scale calibration first look Eric Miller
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11:00 – 11:50 Break
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General Session #1
Chair: Karl Forster
11:50 – 12:10 Introduction to the EP Science Center and science operations of Einstein Probe Congying Bao
12:10 – 12:30 Apollo 15 (& 16) X-ray instrument Erik Kuulkers
12:30 – 12:50 Galaxy Cluster-based Evidence from NuSTAR for Miscalibration in the Hard Bands of XMM-Newton and Chandra? Daniel Wik
12:50 – 13:10 The 3-body problem: calibrating X-ray observations of a triple-star system Surangkhana Rukdee
13:10 – 13:30 XMM-Newton EPIC-pn single reflections from Sco X-1 Michael Freyberg
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13:30 – 15:00 Lunch
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Special Session: XRISM
Chair: Catherine Grant
15:00 – 15:15 XRISM mission status Yoshiaki Kanemaru
15:15 – 15:30 Initial operations and calibration procedure of XRISM/Xtend Hiromasa Suzuki
15:30 – 15:50 Planning and implementing XRISM in-flight calibration Eric Miller
15:50 – 16:10 Optimization of X-ray event screening using ground and in-orbit data for the Resolve instrument onboard the XRISM satellite Yuto Mochizuki
16:10 – 16:30 On-orbit calibration of XRISM/Xtend Tomokage Yoneyama
16:30 – 16:45 Overview of XRISM/Xtend Transient Search Marina Yoshimoto
16:45 – 17:00 Ground and In-orbit Verifications of the XRISM Timing System Yukikatsu Terada
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17:00 – 17:45 Break
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17:45 – 18:00 Isolated NS and WD Room 1
Overview of the iNS and WD working group calibration efforts Vadim Burwitz
18:00 – 19:30 Coordinated Observations Room 1
A NICER look at X-ray cross-calibration using 3C 273 Jeremy Hare
First results on XRISM effective area cross-calibration Eric Miller/Takayuki Hayashi
ACROSS: Efficient multi-mission coordination Jamie Kennea

Wednesday 15 May

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Working Group
 
9:30 – 11:00Thermal SNRRoom 1
9:30 – 10:00Cas A 
 What to expect from the XRISM observations of N132D and Cas APaul Plucinsky
 The development and use of a standard model of Cas A for ACIS calibrationNick Durham
 Swift, XMM, RXTE, NuStar, & NICER fits to Cas ACraig Markwardt
10:00 – 10:30E0102 
 E0102 observations with XtendTomokage Yoneyama
 Using E0102 to improve the eROSITA ARFs and RMFs and XMM RMFsKonrad Dennerl
 Monitoring SN1987A with XMM and eROSITAKonrad Dennerl
10:30 – 11:00N123D 
 An updated model for the Fe-K region in N132D from XMM dataAdam Foster
 An update on the RGS analysis of N132DMartin Stuhlinger
9:30 – 11:00ContaminationRoom 2
 Evolution of the contamination layer on the Chandra ACIS optical blocking filterAkos Bogdan
 Contamination updateHerman Marshall
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11:00 – 11:50Break
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General Session #2
Chair: Eric Miller
11:50 – 12:00StingRay: Spectral Timing for AllMatteo Bachetti
12:00 – 12:20The VERT-X calibration facilityAlberto Moretti
12:20 – 12:40The cross-calibration between XMM-Newton & NuSTAR in timing modeGabriele Matzeu
12:40 – 13:00A large scale study of the background of the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) telescopeStefano Silverstri
13:00 – 13:20Evaluation of the in-orbit pointing accuracy of XRISMYoshiaki Kanemaru
13:20 – 13:40XRISM on-orbit PSF and optical axis calibrationTakayuki Hayashi
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13:40 – 15:00Lunch
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General Session #3
Chair: Paul Plucinsky
15:00 – 15:20SMILE Soft X-ray Imager Prelaunch TestingAndrew Beardmore
15:20 – 15:40Calibration plan of GRM onboad SVOMShijie Zheng
15:40 – 16:00RMFs and ARFs for eROSITA and XMM/EPIC-pnKonrad Dennerl
16:00 – 16:20The 100 m X-ray Test Facility in IHEP and Calibration Plans for the eXTPYusa Wang
16:20 – 16:40NinjaSat: A 6U CubeSat observatory for bright X-ray sourcesToru Tamagawa
16:40 – 17:00Timing calibration of the CubeSat X-ray observatory NinjaSatNaoyuki Ota
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17:00 – 18:00Break
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18:00 – 19:30Clusters of galaxiesRoom 2
18:00 – 19:30TimingRoom 1
 Pulsar Cross-calibrationMatteo Bachetti
 Challenges to Keep the Timing Accuracy of XRISM Timing System in GPS Failure ModeMegumi Shidatsu
 Timing cross-calibration with the Crab in March 2024Yukikatsu Terada

Thursday 16 May

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Working Group Summaries
Chair:
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9:00 – 9:15Detectors and BackgroundCatherine Grant
9:15 – 9:30TimingYukikatsu Terada
9:30 – 9:45Clusters of Galaxies/High ResolutionEric Miller
9:45 – 10:00Calibration StatisticsVinay Kashyap
10:00 – 10:15Thermal SNRPaul Plucinsky
10:15 – 10:30ContaminationHerman Marshal
10:30 – 10:45WD & Isolated NSVadim Burwitz
10:45 – 11:00Non-thermal SNRCraig Markwardt
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11:00 – 11:30Break
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11:30 – 11:45Coordinated ObservationsKarl Forster
11:45 – 12:00Closing RemarksKristin Madsen

Local Organizing Committee

Peter Kretschmar, ESAC/ESA, Felix Fürst, ESAC/ESA 

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