3rd IACHEC meeting, 18-21 May 2008
Monday 19th of May
09:00-09:10 Introduction (M.Kirsch)
Talks: Update of calibration current missions
09:10-09:40: XMM-Newton (M. Guainazzi)
09:40-10:10: Chandra (L. David)
10:40-11:10: Suzaku (E. Miller; XIS: H. Matsumoto; HXD M. Kawaharada)
11:10-11:30: Coffee break
11:30-12:00: Integral (IBIS, L.Natalucci; SPI, J.P. Roques)
12:00-12:20: RXTE (K. Jahoda)
12:20-12:30: Swift (A. Moretti)
Lunch
Talks: Update of the results from the previous IACHEC working groups
The Chairs of the working groups from
on the activities of their working group in 2007/2008. New working groups may
be proposed;
14:00-14:10: White Dwarfs (Chair: Burwitz)
14:10-14:30: Thermal SNR (Chair: Plucinsky)
14:30-14:45: Clusters (Chair: David)
14:45-15:00: Non thermal SNR (Chair: Ishida)
15:00-15:05: High spectral resolution Calibration (Chair: Pollock)
15:05-15:15: Relative effective area Calibration (Chair: Marshall)
15:15-15:20: Calibration in the XEUS area (Chair: Sembay)
Groups without report/inactive
– Isolated Neutron Stars (Chair: Haberl)
– Energy and Redistribution Calibration (Chair: Grant)
– Timing Calibration (Chair: Kirsch)
15:20-16:00: Coffee break
16:00-18:00: Working groups session 1
Tuesday 20th of May
Working groups session 2
9:00-11:00 same as the
Talks: calibration standards
11:20-11:40: Martin C.Weisskopf: So you think the Crab is described by a power-law spectrum?
11:40-12:00: Niels Westergaard: The Crab spectrum as measured in the JEM-X instrument.
12:00-12:20: Manabu Ishida: Cross calibration of Suzaku/Chandra/XMM-Newton with PKS2155-304
Talks: Calibration of future missions
14:00-14:20: Ulrich Briel for Philippe Ferrando: Short overview of Simbol-X and the challenge of calibrating Simbol-X
14:20-14:40: Alberto Moretti: Calibration plan of Simbol-X
14:40-15:00: Michael Freyberg: Simbol-X: Outline of calibration of mirrors at PANTER
15:00-15:15: Konrad Dennerl: E-Rosita: Calibration of mirrors (and cameras)
15:15-15:30: Jelle Kaastra: In-flight calibration of SXC
Wednesday 21st May
Working groups session 3
09:00-10:00: Thermal SNR WG
10:00-11:00 Summary of WG chairs to forum
11:30-12:00 Summary, conclusions, actions and schedule (Guainazzi)