14th Workshop of International Astronomical Consortium for High Energy Calibration

19 May 2019, 15:00 → 23 May 2019, 20:00 Asia/Tokyo

Shonan Village Center

Masahiro Tsujimoto (JAXA ISAS), Yukikatsu Terada (Saitama Univ.)

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Sunday 19 May

15:00 → 18:30 Registration

18:30 → 20:30 Reception

Monday 20 May

07:30 → 08:30 Breakfast

08:30 → 10:25 Session I: Calibration status of operational missions - part 1

Convener: Yukikatsu Terada (Saitama Univ.)

08:30 Welcome & logistics

Speakers: Masahiro Tsujimoto (JAXA ISAS), Yukikatsu Terada (Saitama Univ.)

welcome.pdf

08:45 MAXI GSC calibration for 10 years data

Speaker: Mutsumi Sugizaki

IACHEC2019_MaxiGscCal_sugizaki.pdf

09:05 NuSTAR status

Speaker: Kristin Madsen (Caltech)

IACHEC_KKM_2019.pdf

09:25 XMM-Newton calibration status update

Speaker: Michael Smith (ORNL)

IACHEC14_XMM_Cal_Updates_v2.pdf

09:45 In-orbit calibration status of Insight-HXMT

Speaker: Xiaobo Li

HXMTCalibrationStatus_20190520.pdf

10:05 SPI/Integral calibration status

Speaker: Jean-Pierre Roques

JPR.pdf

10:25 → 10:40 break

10:40 → 12:00 Session I: Calibration status of operational missions - part 2

Convener: Kristin Madsen (Caltech)

10:40 Swift-XRT Calibration Update

Speaker: Andrew Beardmore

Beardmore_XRT.pdf

11:00 Current Status of NICER calibration

Speaker: Kenji Hamaguchi

NICER-IACHEC-2019.pdf

11:20 The Calibration Status of the Chandra X-ray Observatory

Speaker: Jeremy Drake

chandra_cal_summary.pdf

11:40 SXT calibration status & UV/X-ray spectroscopy with AstroSat

Speaker: Gulab Dewangan

GCDewangan_IACHEC_May20_updated.pdf

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 14:00 Session II: Calibration status of upcoming missions

Convener: Guillaume Belanger (ESA, ESAC)

13:00 The Status of eROSITA on Spectr-RG and its Calibration Prior to Launch

Speaker: Vadim Burwitz

VB eROSITA Status_v06.pdf

13:20 Athena calibration plans

Speaker: Matteo Guainazzi

AthenaCalibrations_14thIACHEC_20190520.pdf

13:40 The Athena/X-IFU calibration plan

Speaker: François Pajot

2019_AthenaXIFU_Calibration_plan_Pajot.pdf

14:00 → 14:20 break

14:20 → 16:00 Session III: XRISM

Convener: Eric Miller

14:20 XRISM Science Operations Plan

Speaker: Yukikatsu Terada (Saitama Univ.)

20190520_23_XRISM_14thIACHEC_yterada.pdf

14:35 XRISM In-orbit calibration plan

Speaker: Matteo Guainazzi

XRISMICP_14thIACHEC_20190520.pdf

14:50 Calibration of the XRISM Resolve instrument

Speaker: Maurice Leutenegger

IACHEC2019_Resolve_calibration_v1.pdf

15:10 Transmittance calibration of the Dewar gate valve for XRISM Resolve

Speaker: Takuya Midooka (University of Tokyo, ISAS/JAXA)

midooka_IACHEC.pdf

15:25 Current development status and calibration plan of the X-ray CCDs onboard XRISM

Speaker: Koji Mori (University of Miyazaki)

2019-05-20_Xtend-IACHEC.pdf

15:45 Characterization and calibration of the front-end ASIC for the X-ray CCD camera aboard the XRISM satellite

Speaker: Hikari Kashimura (Kanto Gakuin University)

XRISM_Xtend_ASIC_Kashimura_20190517.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 break

16:30 → 18:30 Working Groups I: 1: Detectors and Background part 1 (Detectors)

Convener: Catherine Grant

16:30 ACIS Gain Challenges, Warm Focal Plane Temperatures, and Lorentzians

Speaker: Nick Durham

ndurham_ccd_wg1.pdf

16:50 Low energy response calibration and long term gain monitoring of the NuSTAR detectors

Speaker: Hiromasa Miyasaka

iachec_miyasaka_2019.pdf

17:10 Update on the status of the Chandra ACIS response

Speaker: Terry Gaetz

iachec2019_tgaetz_fi_gain_droop.pdf

17:30 A solution to the Si-K edge problem in the Suzaku XIS Response and Its Implication to XRISM Xtend

Speaker: Kiyoshi Hayashida (Osaka University)

20190520_hayasida_Siedge_IACHEC.pdf

20190520_hayasida_Siedge_IACHEC.pptx

17:50 EPIC-pn long term CTI

Speaker: Ivan Valtchanov

EPIC-pn long term CTI.pdf

18:10 New clocking mode for X-ray CCD detector

Speaker: Hiroshi Murakami

IACHEC_clockmode_murakami.pdf

16:30 → 18:10 Working Groups I: 2: Coordinated observations

Convener: Herman Marshall

16:30 XMM-Newton / Chandra cross calibration with blazars

Speaker: Michael Smith (ORNL)

IACHEC14_XMM_Chandra_Blazars_v2.pdf

16:50 Swift-NuSTAR cross-calibration update

Speaker: Kristin Madsen (Caltech)

coordinated_obs_Madsen.pdf

17:10 XMM-Newton and NuSTAR cross-calibration studies

Speaker: Felix Fuerst

xmm_nustar_crosscal_v3.pdf

17:30 Swift Operations and Calibration

Speaker: Jamie Kennea

Kennea_IACHEC_Swift_XRT_2019.pdf

18:30 → 20:00 Dinner

20:00 → 21:00 Others: Chair Session

Tuesday 21 May

07:30 → 09:00 Breakfast

09:00 → 10:40 Working Groups II: 1: Contamination

Convener: Eric Miller

09:00 Continued Monitoring of the Chandra ACIS Contamination

Speaker: Herman Marshall

ChandraContaminationUpdate.pdf

09:20 The Evolution of the ACIS Contamination Layer on the Chandra X-ray Observatory from 2010 to 2019

Speaker: Paul Plucinsky

contamination_plucinsky_2019.pdf

09:40 Measurement of X-ray, UV, optical transmission of Contamination Blocking Filter on board Hitomi SXI

Speaker: Takayoshi Kohmura

20190521_IACHEC_Hitomi_SXI_CBF_rev1.pptx

10:00 RGS fine structure & edges

Speaker: Jelle Kaastra

2019-iachec-rgscal-Presentation2.pptx

09:00 → 10:00 Working Groups II: 2: Timing

Convener: Yukikatsu Terada (Saitama Univ.)

09:00 Timing calibration of the Resolve microcalorimeter spectrometer on XRISM

Speaker: Makoto Sawada

msawada_resolvetimingcal_iachec2019.pdf

09:30 Timing calibration of NuSTAR

Speaker: Matteo Bachetti

Timing_with_NuSTAR_-_IACHEC.pdf

10:00 → 10:40 Working Groups II: 2: Galaxy Clusters

10:40 → 11:00 break

11:00 → 12:00 Working Groups III: 1: White Dwarfs

Convener: Vadim Burwitz

11:00 INs and WDs Working Group

Speaker: Vadim Burwitz

VB_INs_and_WDs_v02.pdf

11:20 Universal detection of high-temperature emission in X-ray Isolated Neutron Stars

Speaker: Tomokage Yoneyama (Osaka University)

iachec2019_190520_yoneyamat.pptx

11:40 RX J1856.5-3754: Reaching consistency between Chandra LETG and XMM-Newton/EPIC-pn

Speaker: Konrad Dennerl

IACHEC2019_RXJ1856_KD.pptx

11:00 → 12:00 Working Groups III: 2: Communication

Convener: Guillaume Belanger (ESA, ESAC)

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 15:00 Session IV: Calibration Uncertainties in Modeling

Convener: Adam Foster

13:00 Calibration uncertainties and thermal line models

Speaker: Jelle Kaastra

2019_iachec-kaastra.pdf

13:30 Cross-calibration Effects in Modeling X-ray Spectra from Accreting Sources

Speaker: Javier Garcia

2019_IACHEC_Garcia_talk.pdf

14:00 Calibration uncertainties on modeling: timing calibration

Speaker: Yukikatsu Terada (Saitama Univ.)

14th_IACHEC_TimingUncertainties_YTerada.pdf

14:30 Discussion

15:00 → 15:20 break

15:20 → 16:40 Session V: Calibration Method and Future Technologies

Convener: Paul Plucinsky

15:20 An empirical method for improving the XMM-Newton/EPIC-pn RMF and ARF

Speaker: Konrad Dennerl

IACHEC2019_EPICpnRMF_KD.pdf

IACHEC2019_EPICpnRMF_KD.pptx

15:40 XMM-Newton CORRAREA Calibration Status

Speaker: Christian Pommranz

CORRAREA_Calibration_Status.pdf

16:00 Characterization of a BSI sCMOS as a soft X-ray detector

Speaker: Wenxin Wang

IACHEC_20190521_wang.pdf

16:20 Chandra X-ray Observatory Optical Axis, Aimpoint and Pointing Stability¶

Speaker: Ping Zhao

WGI_Zhao.pdf

16:40 → 17:00 break

17:00 → 18:00 Discussion Forum I: Heritage

Convener: Matteo Guainazzi

17:00 Update on the IACHEC Source Database

Speaker: James Rodi

iachec2019_isd_update_190520.pdf

17:30 Reusable cross-calibration workflows

Speaker: Dr Volodymyr Savchenko (ISDC, Geneva)

reusable_calibration_workflows.pdf

17:45 Heritage Working Group meeting

Speaker: Matteo Guainazzi

OpticsWG_14thIACHEC_20180521.pdf

18:00 → 19:30 Dinner

Wednesday 22 May

07:30 → 08:30 Breakfast

08:30 → 10:10 Working Groups IV: 1: Thermal SNR

Convener: Paul Plucinsky

thermal_SNRs_report_2019_revised.pdf

08:30 The IACHEC Standard Models for 1E 0102.2-7219 and N132D

Speaker: Paul Plucinsky

Beardmore_CasA.pdf

grefenstette_n132d.pptx

miller_n132d_suzaku_2019.pdf

thermal_SNRs_WG1_2019.pdf

09:00 Verification of the IACHEC model for the SNR 1E 0102.2-7219 with XMM-Newton/EPIC-pn

Speaker: Konrad Dennerl

IACHEC2019_1E0102_KD.pdf

IACHEC2019_1E0102_KD.pptx

08:30 → 09:30 Working Groups IV: 2: Calibration Uncertainties

Convener: Vinay Kashyap

thermal_SNRs_report_2019_revised.pdf

08:30 Flux measurement from high-resolution spectra

Speaker: Vinay Kashyap

CalStatsWG_vlk.pdf

08:50 The most sensitive period search we can do on event data

Speaker: Guillaume Belanger (ESA, ESAC)

belanger-periodograms-presentation.pdf

belanger-periodograms-transcript.pdf

09:10 Treating detection of transient phenomena as a statistical problem

Speaker: Guillaume Belanger (ESA, ESAC)

belanger-transients-presentation.pdf

belanger-transients-transcript.pdf

09:30 → 10:10 Working Groups IV: 2. Concordance

Convener: Vinay Kashyap

thermal_SNRs_report_2019_revised.pdf

09:30 Concordance discussion

Speaker: Herman Marshall

Concordance2019.pdf

10:10 → 10:20 break

10:20 → 11:20 Working Groups V: 1: Non-thermal SNR

Convener: Kristin Madsen (Caltech)

10:20 Observations of the Crab Nebula with INTEGRAL SPI

Speaker: Elisabeth Jourdain

IACHEC2019.pdf

10:50 Update on NuSTAR Crab observations and calibrations

Speaker: Kristin Madsen (Caltech)

IACHEC_Crab_update_2019.pdf

10:20 → 12:00 Working Groups V: 2: Detectors and Background part 2 (Background)

Convener: Catherine Grant

10:20 Simulations of thermal excursions on the the Athena X-IFU detector wafer from cosmic rays

Speaker: Samantha Stever

IACHEC_2019_SamanthaStever.pdf

10:40 In-orbit Neutron and Radioactivation Background of the Hard X-ray Imager onboard Hitomi

Speaker: Hiromasa Suzuki (The University of Tokyo)

iachec2019_suzuki_20190521.pdf

11:00 Background Simulations of the Wide-field X-ray Telescope on Einstein Probe

Speaker: Donghua ZHAO

DonghuaZHAO-BKGSimulations for WXT.pdf

11:20 Characterizing and Reducing the Background on the Athena WFI

Speaker: Eric Miller

miller_WFIBG_IACHEC_20190522.pdf

11:40 Status of modeling Chandra ACIS background

Speaker: Terry Gaetz

iachec2019_tgaetz_acisbg.pdf

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 15:00 Session VII: High Resolution WG special: Atomic data effects on calibration

Convener: Vadim Burwitz

13:00 The XRISM Atomic Data Needs Assessment

Speaker: Tim Kallman

tkallmaniachec2019.pdf

13:20 Status of Atomic Plasma Models

Speaker: Randall Smith

RSmith-IACHEC2019-final.pdf

13:40 The Effects of Atomic Data Choices on Calibration Uncertainty

Speaker: Adam Foster

afoster_iachec_2019.pdf

14:00 Effects of different selections of atomic data and plasma emission models

Speaker: Makoto Sawada

msawada_atomiccodes_iachec2019.pdf

14:20 The Need for Laboratory Astrophysics for High-Resolution Spectroscopy

Speaker: Gabriele Betancourt-Martinez

IACHEC2019_Betancourt-Martinez_final.pdf

14:40 The Kronos Database of State-Selective Charge Exchange Cross Sections

Speaker: Renate Cumbee

Cumbee_IACHEC_Talk_2019.pdf

15:00 → 15:09 Group photo

15:10 → 16:00 break

16:00 → 17:15 Session VI: eXTP and Einstein Probe

Convener: Herman Marshall

16:00 Calibration plans for the Wide-field X-ray Telescope on Einstein Probe

Speaker: Yuan Liu

EP_calibration_wxt.pdf

16:15 Calibration and CALDB design for EP/FXT

Speaker: Chengkui Li (IHEP)

IACHEC14_FXT_calibration.pdf

16:30 X-ray testing facilities at IHEP and calibration plans for EP&eXTP

Speaker: Yusa Wang

YusaWang.pdf

16:45 Calibration plans and development of PFA onboard eXTP

Speaker: WeiChun Jiang

IACHEC14_PFA_Cal_Plans_20190522-pub.pdf

17:00 Preliminary calibration test and results analysis of GRM (SVOM)

Speaker: Xing Wen

14th_IACHEC_20190522_wenxing.pdf

17:15 → 18:00 Discussion Forum II: White paper

Convener: Kristin Madsen (Caltech)

Decadal_WP.pdf

18:00 → 18:30 break

18:30 → 20:30 Banquet

Thursday 23 May

07:30 → 08:30 Breakfast

08:30 → 12:15 Session VIII: Working Group reports

Convener: Masahiro Tsujimoto (JAXA ISAS)

08:30 Calibration statistics

Speaker: Vinay Kashyap (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)

CalStatWG_Report_14IACHEC_2019may23.pdf

08:45 Communication

Speaker: Guillaume Belanger (ESA, ESAC)

comm_survey_results.pdf

comms_ideas_actions.pdf

09:00 Contamination

Speaker: Eric Miller

miller_contamwg_summary_iachec2019_v4.pdf

09:15 Coordinated Observations

Speaker: Herman Marshall

CoordinatedObservationsSummary.pdf

09:30 Detector and Background

Speaker: Catherine Grant (MIT)

Grant.DetBkgWG.2019summary.pdf

09:45 Heritage

Speaker: Matteo Guainazzi

HeritageWGSummary_14thIACHEC_20180523.pdf

10:00 High Resolution

Speaker: Adam Foster (SAO)

afoster_hrwg_summary.pdf

10:15 Non-Thermal SNR

Speakers: Kristin Madsen (Caltech), Lorenzo Natalucci

non_thermal_summary.pdf

10:30 Thermal SNR

Speaker: Paul Plucinsky

thermal_SNRs_report_2019_revised.pdf

10:45 break

11:00 White Dwarfs and Isolated Neutron Stars

Speaker: Dr Vadim Burwitz (MPI for Extraterrestrial Physics)

VB_2019_05_23_WD_INS_WG_Summary_v01.pdf

11:15 Timing

Speaker: Yukikatsu Terada (Saitama Univ.)

IACHEC2019_timing_session_Report_20190523b.pdf

11:30 Cluster of Galaxies

Speaker: Eric Miller

11:45 Next IACHEC

NextMeeting.pdf

12:00 Closing remarks

Speaker: Kristin Madsen (Caltech)

Closing_remarks.pdf

12:15 → 13:00 Lunch

18:00 → 19:00 Dinner