10th IACHEC meeting, 20-23 April 2015
Monday, 20 April 2015
Session I: Development status of future missions
Chair: H.Marshall
08:30: prof. Chen Gang, Welcome
08:40: F.Lu, Status of the HXMT mission
09:00: X.Li, The simulation of the calibration and the design of CALDB for HXMT
09:15: J.Sun, The Gamma-Ray Burst Polarimeter POLAR on-board the China’s Spacelab ‘Tiangong-2’
09:30: K.Mukerjee, Soft X-ray ground calibration and calibration database development for Astrosat
09:45: V.Burwitz, Status of eRosita
10:00: B.La Marr, Ground testing of the detectors for NICER
10:15: C.Tenzer, An experimental setup for soft proton irradiation of detectors and mirrors
10:30-11:00 coffee/tea break
Session II: Calibration status of operational missions
Chair: prof. Song LiMing
11:00: L.David, Calibration status of Chandra
11:15: P.Zhao, Chandra X-ray observatory pointing stability
11:30: L.Natalucci, Status of IBIS/ISGRI calibration and ISGRI-SPI cross-calibration update
11:45: K.Forster, NuSTAR calibration status
12:00: E.Miller, Suzaku operations and calibration status
12:15: M.Smith, The XMM-Newton calibration update
12:15-13:30: lunch break
Session III: Working Groups meet
13:30-15:30: Contamination
D.Swartz, Chandra Contamination-Migration Model Update
H.Marshall, ACIS Contaminant: It Gets Worse
E.Miller, XIS contamination status
13:30-15:30: CCD and background
Nick Durham, Measurements from Chandra ECS
Terry Gaetz, Updated analysis of Chandra ACIS background
Terry Gaetz, Current status of Chandra ACIS low energy BI CCD gain calibration
Matteo Guainazzi, The Cyg X-3 IACHEC experiment: EPIC-pn results
Norbert Schultz, Cyg X-3 Cross-Calibration with XMM-Newton and Swift: HETG and CC-mode
Michael Smith, Quiescent Background and the EPIC-pn Energy Scale
13:30-17:30: Galaxy cluster I
G.Schellenberger, Chandra/XMM-Newton cross calibration using HIFLUGCS: Updates and future plans
J.Nevalainen, Modarf
J.Nevalainen, HIFLUGS data to Wiki
J.Nevalainen (on behalf of H.Israel), X-ray clusters masses and hydrostatic bias
J.Nevalainen, Cluster masses
J.Nevalainen, Multi Mission Study
J.Nevalainen, NuSTAR
J.Nevalainen, Coordination of Astro-SAT, AstroH and eRosita cross-calibratoon with IACHEC clusters
15:30-17:30: Thermal SNR
Tuesday, 21 April 2014
Session IV: Working Groups meet
08:30-10:30: Calibration uncertainties
H.Marshall, Introduction
J.Drake, Monte-Carlo calibration uncertainties: XMM-Newton EPIC-pn
K.K.Madsen, Calibration uncertainties: NuSTAR
H.Marshall, Bias in chi-squared estimation
08:30-10:30: High-resolution
08:30-10:30: Non-thermal SNR
08:30-10:30: White dwarfs and Isolated Neutron Stars
Session V: Detection of sterile neutrino signature: the calibration perspective
Chair: D.Bhattacharya
11:15: A.Foster, The Chandra and XMM-Newton results
11:45: Y.Maeda, The Suzaku results
12:15-13:30: lunch break
Session VI: In-flight calibration plans
Chair: Prof.Lu FangJun
13:30: L.David, Chandra
13:45: K.Forster, NuSTAR
14:00: E.Miller, Suzaku
14:15: M.Guainazzi, XMM-Newton
14:30: R.Petre, ASTRO-H
14:50-15:20: coffee/tea break
15:20: D.Bhattacharya, Calibration of scientific payloads aboard Astrosat
15:40: V.Burwitz, eRosita
16:00: S.Xiong, The progress of Science Ground Segment and the in-flight calibration plan for HXMT
16:20: C.Markwardt, NICER
16:40-18:00: Discussion (Moderators: Prof.Lu FangJun, M.Guainazzi)
Session VII: Paths to improve the cross-calibration status
Chair: H.Marshall
20:00: H.Marshall, Introduction
Wednesday, 22 April 2015
Session VIII: Astrostatistics
Chair: M.Guainazzi
09:00: prof. Xiao-Li Meng, A log-normal linear regression approach for (simultaneously) adjusting attributes
10:30-11:00: coffee/tea break
Session IX: New challenges to X-ray high-resolution data analysis
Chair: A.Foster
11:00: A.Foster, Introduction
12:15-13:30: lunch break
Session X: Working Groups meet
13:30-17:30: Coordinated observations
K.K.Madsen, Cross-calibration status: 3C273 and PKS2155-304
13:30-15:30: Galaxy cluster II
G.Schellenberger, More HIFLUGCS stuff
Y.Chen, XMM-Newton/Chandra cross-calibration
15:30-17:30: Heritage
M.Guainazzi, Introduction
18:00-20:00: Banquet
Thursday, 23 April 2015
Session XI: Working Group reports
Chair: L.Natalucci
08:30: D.Bhattacharya, IACHEC 2016
08:45: Calibration uncertainties
09:00: CCDs
09:15: Clusters of galaxies
09:30: Contamination
09:45: Coordinated observations
10:00-10:30: coffee/tea break
Chair: R.Petre
10:30: Heritage
10:45: High-resolution
11:00: Non-thermal SNR
11:15: Thermal SNR
11:30: White Dwarfs and Isolated Neutron Stars
11:45-12:15: M.Guainazzi, Prof. Song Liming, prof. Zhang Shuang Nan: meeting closure