Tuesday

XMM Calibration Updates
9:00 am - 9:30 am
Felix Fuerst: "XMM cross-calibration with NuSTAR"

Background Session
9:30 am - 10:15 am

9:30-9:45 - Hiromasa Suzuki: “Spatial and temporal variations of the Chandra ACIS particle-induced background and development of a spectral-model generation tool”

9:45-10:00 - Craig Markwardt: “Current and Future Tools for Modeling NICER Background”

10:00-10:15 - Michael Freyberg: "eROSITA background"

Break
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Workshop "Photo"

Background Session
10:30 am - 12:00 pm

10:30-10:45 - Brian Grefenstette: "Modeling the NuSTAR background"

10:45 - 11:00 - Kip Kuntz: "The XMM Quiescent Particle Background"

11:00 - 11:15 - Fabio Gastadello: "A spectro-spatial model for the XMM-Newton background"

11:15 - 11:30 - Eric Miller: "Disentangling detector and background effects at soft energies in X-ray CCDs"

11:30 - 11:45 - Steven Ehlert: "A Probabilistic Method of Background Removal for High Energy Astrophysics Data"

11:45 - 12:00 - Background Discussion