(Chair: Catherine Grant).
Provides a forum for cross-mission discussion and comparison of detector-specific modeling and calibration issues, and for measuring and modeling instrument background in the spatial, spectral, and temporal dimensions.
Current members: A.Beardmore, K.Dennerl, N.Durham, R.Edgar, T.Gaetz, B.Grefenstette, M.Guainazzi, C.Heinitz, K.Kuntz, X.Li, E.Miller, S.Molendi, K.Mori, C.Pagani, P.Plucinsky, N.Schulz, S.Sembay, M.Smith, M.Sugizaki, M.Tsujimoto, K.Uchida, T.Ying