2024 Parador de La Granja (Spain)

16th IACHEC meeting, 12 - 16 May 2024

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

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

	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

Working Group
9:30 – 11:00	Thermal SNR	Room 1
9:30 – 10:00	Cas A
	What to expect from the XRISM observations of N132D and Cas A	Paul Plucinsky
	The development and use of a standard model of Cas A for ACIS calibration	Nick Durham
	Swift, XMM, RXTE, NuStar, & NICER fits to Cas A	Craig Markwardt
10:00 – 10:30	E0102
	E0102 observations with Xtend	Tomokage Yoneyama
	Using E0102 to improve the eROSITA ARFs and RMFs and XMM RMFs	Konrad Dennerl
	Monitoring SN1987A with XMM and eROSITA	Konrad Dennerl
10:30 – 11:00	N123D
	An updated model for the Fe-K region in N132D from XMM data	Adam Foster
	An update on the RGS analysis of N132D	Martin Stuhlinger
9:30 – 11:00	Contamination	Room 2
	Evolution of the contamination layer on the Chandra ACIS optical blocking filter	Akos Bogdan
	Contamination update	Herman Marshall
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11:00 – 11:50	Break
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	General Session #2	Chair: Eric Miller
11:50 – 12:00	StingRay: Spectral Timing for All	Matteo Bachetti
12:00 – 12:20	The VERT-X calibration facility	Alberto Moretti
12:20 – 12:40	The cross-calibration between XMM-Newton & NuSTAR in timing mode	Gabriele Matzeu
12:40 – 13:00	A large scale study of the background of the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) telescope	Stefano Silverstri
13:00 – 13:20	Evaluation of the in-orbit pointing accuracy of XRISM	Yoshiaki Kanemaru
13:20 – 13:40	XRISM on-orbit PSF and optical axis calibration	Takayuki Hayashi
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13:40 – 15:00	Lunch
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	General Session #3	Chair: Paul Plucinsky
15:00 – 15:20	SMILE Soft X-ray Imager Prelaunch Testing	Andrew Beardmore
15:20 – 15:40	Calibration plan of GRM onboad SVOM	Shijie Zheng
15:40 – 16:00	RMFs and ARFs for eROSITA and XMM/EPIC-pn	Konrad Dennerl
16:00 – 16:20	The 100 m X-ray Test Facility in IHEP and Calibration Plans for the eXTP	Yusa Wang
16:20 – 16:40	NinjaSat: A 6U CubeSat observatory for bright X-ray sources	Toru Tamagawa
16:40 – 17:00	Timing calibration of the CubeSat X-ray observatory NinjaSat	Naoyuki Ota
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17:00 – 18:00	Break
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18:00 – 19:30	Clusters of galaxies	Room 2
18:00 – 19:30	Timing	Room 1
	Pulsar Cross-calibration	Matteo Bachetti
	Challenges to Keep the Timing Accuracy of XRISM Timing System in GPS Failure Mode	Megumi Shidatsu
	Timing cross-calibration with the Crab in March 2024	Yukikatsu Terada

Thursday 16 May

	Working Group Summaries	Chair:
Chair :
9:00 – 9:15	Detectors and Background	Catherine Grant
9:15 – 9:30	Timing	Yukikatsu Terada
9:30 – 9:45	Clusters of Galaxies/High Resolution	Eric Miller
9:45 – 10:00	Calibration Statistics	Vinay Kashyap
10:00 – 10:15	Thermal SNR	Paul Plucinsky
10:15 – 10:30	Contamination	Herman Marshal
10:30 – 10:45	WD & Isolated NS	Vadim Burwitz
10:45 – 11:00	Non-thermal SNR	Craig Markwardt
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11:00 – 11:30	Break
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11:30 – 11:45	Coordinated Observations	Karl Forster
11:45 – 12:00	Closing Remarks	Kristin Madsen

Local Organizing Committee

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

16th IACHEC meeting, 12 - 16 May 2024

Meeting

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Program

Monday 13 May

Mission Updates

Chair: Herman Marshall

Special Session: Einstein Probe

Chair: Vadim Burwitz

Monday 13 May

Mission Updates

Chair: Herman Marshall

Special Session: Einstein Probe

Chair: Vadim Burwitz

Tuesday 14 May

Working Group

General Session #1

Chair: Karl Forster

Special Session: XRISM

Chair: Catherine Grant

Wednesday 15 May

Working Group

General Session #2

Chair: Eric Miller

General Session #3

Chair: Paul Plucinsky

Thursday 16 May

Working Group Summaries

Chair:

Local Organizing Committee

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