Name: 14th Workshop of International Astronomical Consortium for High Energy Calibration
Start: 2019-05-19T15:00:00+09:00
End: 2019-05-23T20:00:00+09:00
Location: Shonan Village Center

Monday, 13 May 2019
Tuesday, 14 May 2019
Wednesday, 15 May 2019
Thursday, 16 May 2019
Friday, 17 May 2019
Saturday, 18 May 2019
Sunday, 19 May 2019

15:00 Registration
Registration
15:00 - 18:30
Room: Lobby

18:30 Reception
Reception
18:30 - 20:30
Room: Cafeteria

Monday, 20 May 2019

07:30 Breakfast
Breakfast
07:30 - 08:30
Room: Cafeteria
08:30 Calibration status of operational missions - part 1
Calibration status of operational missions - part 1
08:30 - 10:25
Room: Room 1&2
Contributions

08:30 Welcome & logistics - Masahiro Tsujimoto (JAXA ISAS) Yukikatsu Terada (Saitama Univ.)

08:45 MAXI GSC calibration for 10 years data - Mutsumi Sugizaki

09:05 NuSTAR status - Kristin Madsen (Caltech)

09:25 XMM-Newton calibration status update - Michael Smith (ORNL)

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

10:05 SPI/Integral calibration status - Jean-Pierre Roques
10:25 break
break
10:25 - 10:40
10:40 Calibration status of operational missions - part 2
Calibration status of operational missions - part 2
10:40 - 12:00
Room: Room 1&2
Contributions

10:40 Swift-XRT Calibration Update - Andrew Beardmore

11:00 Current Status of NICER calibration - Kenji Hamaguchi

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

11:40 SXT calibration status & UV/X-ray spectroscopy with AstroSat - Gulab Dewangan
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Cafeteria
13:00
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Room 1&2
Contributions

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

13:20 Athena calibration plans - Matteo Guainazzi

13:40 The Athena/X-IFU calibration plan - François Pajot
14:00 break
break
14:00 - 14:20
14:20
14:20 - 16:00
Room: Room 1&2
Contributions

14:20 XRISM Science Operations Plan - Yukikatsu Terada (Saitama Univ.)

14:35 XRISM In-orbit calibration plan - Matteo Guainazzi

14:50 Calibration of the XRISM Resolve instrument - Maurice Leutenegger

15:10 Transmittance calibration of the Dewar gate valve for XRISM Resolve - Takuya Midooka (University of Tokyo, ISAS/JAXA)

15:25 Current development status and calibration plan of the X-ray CCDs onboard XRISM - Koji Mori (University of Miyazaki)

15:45 Characterization and calibration of the front-end ASIC for the X-ray CCD camera aboard the XRISM satellite - Hikari Kashimura (Kanto Gakuin University)
16:00 break
break
16:00 - 16:30
16:30 1: Detectors and Background part 1 (Detectors)
1: Detectors and Background part 1 (Detectors)
16:30 - 18:30
Room: Room 1&2
Contributions

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

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

17:10 Update on the status of the Chandra ACIS response - Terry Gaetz

17:30 A solution to the Si-K edge problem in the Suzaku XIS Response and Its Implication to XRISM Xtend - Kiyoshi Hayashida (Osaka University)

17:50 EPIC-pn long term CTI - Ivan Valtchanov

18:10 New clocking mode for X-ray CCD detector - Hiroshi Murakami
2: Coordinated observations
2: Coordinated observations
16:30 - 18:10
Room: Room special
Contributions

16:30 XMM-Newton / Chandra cross calibration with blazars - Michael Smith (ORNL)

16:50 Swift-NuSTAR cross-calibration update - Kristin Madsen (Caltech)

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

17:30 Swift Operations and Calibration - Jamie Kennea
18:30 Dinner
Dinner
18:30 - 20:00
Room: Cafeteria

20:00 Chair Session
Chair Session
20:00 - 21:00
Room: Room 4
Tuesday, 21 May 2019

07:30 Breakfast
Breakfast
07:30 - 09:00
Room: Cafeteria
09:00 1: Contamination
1: Contamination
09:00 - 10:40
Room: Room 1&2
Contributions

09:00 Continued Monitoring of the Chandra ACIS Contamination - Herman Marshall

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

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

10:00 RGS fine structure & edges - Jelle Kaastra
2: Timing
2: Timing
09:00 - 10:00
Room: Room special
Contributions

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

09:30 Timing calibration of NuSTAR - Matteo Bachetti
10:00 2: Galaxy Clusters
2: Galaxy Clusters
10:00 - 10:40
Room: Room special

10:40 break
break
10:40 - 11:00
11:00 1: White Dwarfs
1: White Dwarfs
11:00 - 12:00
Room: Room 1&2
Contributions

11:00 INs and WDs Working Group - Vadim Burwitz

11:20 Universal detection of high-temperature emission in X-ray Isolated Neutron Stars - Tomokage Yoneyama (Osaka University)

11:40 RX J1856.5-3754: Reaching consistency between Chandra LETG and XMM-Newton/EPIC-pn - Konrad Dennerl
2: Communication
2: Communication
11:00 - 12:00
Room: Room special

12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Cafeteria
13:00
13:00 - 15:00
Room: Room 1&2
Contributions

13:00 Calibration uncertainties and thermal line models - Jelle Kaastra

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

14:00 Calibration uncertainties on modeling: timing calibration - Yukikatsu Terada (Saitama Univ.)

14:30 Discussion
15:00 break
break
15:00 - 15:20
15:20
15:20 - 16:40
Room: Room 1&2
Contributions

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

15:40 XMM-Newton CORRAREA Calibration Status - Christian Pommranz

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

16:20 Chandra X-ray Observatory Optical Axis, Aimpoint and Pointing Stability¶ - Ping Zhao
16:40 break
break
16:40 - 17:00
17:00 Heritage
Heritage
17:00 - 18:00
Room: Room 1&2
Contributions

17:00 Update on the IACHEC Source Database - James Rodi

17:30 Reusable cross-calibration workflows - Volodymyr Savchenko (ISDC, Geneva)

17:45 Heritage Working Group meeting - Matteo Guainazzi
18:00 Dinner
Dinner
18:00 - 19:30
Room: Cafeteria
Wednesday, 22 May 2019

07:30 Breakfast
Breakfast
07:30 - 08:30
Room: Cafeteria
08:30 1: Thermal SNR
1: Thermal SNR
08:30 - 10:10
Room: Room special
Contributions

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

09:00 Verification of the IACHEC model for the SNR 1E 0102.2-7219 with XMM-Newton/EPIC-pn - Konrad Dennerl
2: Calibration Uncertainties
2: Calibration Uncertainties
08:30 - 09:30
Room: Room 1&2
Contributions

08:30 Flux measurement from high-resolution spectra - Vinay Kashyap

08:50 The most sensitive period search we can do on event data - Guillaume Belanger (ESA, ESAC)

09:10 Treating detection of transient phenomena as a statistical problem - Guillaume Belanger (ESA, ESAC)
09:30 2. Concordance
2. Concordance
09:30 - 10:10
Room: Room 1&2
Contributions

09:30 Concordance discussion - Herman Marshall
10:10 break
break
10:10 - 10:20
10:20 1: Non-thermal SNR
1: Non-thermal SNR
10:20 - 11:20
Room: Room special
Contributions

10:20 Observations of the Crab Nebula with INTEGRAL SPI - Elisabeth Jourdain

10:50 Update on NuSTAR Crab observations and calibrations - Kristin Madsen (Caltech)
2: Detectors and Background part 2 (Background)
2: Detectors and Background part 2 (Background)
10:20 - 12:00
Room: Room 1&2
Contributions

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

10:40 In-orbit Neutron and Radioactivation Background of the Hard X-ray Imager onboard Hitomi - Hiromasa Suzuki (The University of Tokyo)

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

11:20 Characterizing and Reducing the Background on the Athena WFI - Eric Miller

11:40 Status of modeling Chandra ACIS background - Terry Gaetz
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Cafeteria
13:00
13:00 - 15:00
Room: Room 1&2
Contributions

13:00 The XRISM Atomic Data Needs Assessment - Tim Kallman

13:20 Status of Atomic Plasma Models - Randall Smith

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

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

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

14:40 The Kronos Database of State-Selective Charge Exchange Cross Sections - Renate Cumbee
15:00 Group photo
Group photo
15:00 - 15:09

15:10 break
break
15:10 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 17:15
Room: Room 1&2
Contributions

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

16:15 Calibration and CALDB design for EP/FXT - Chengkui Li (IHEP)

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

16:45 Calibration plans and development of PFA onboard eXTP - WeiChun Jiang

17:00 Preliminary calibration test and results analysis of GRM (SVOM) - Xing Wen
17:15 White paper
White paper
17:15 - 18:00
Room: Room 1&2

18:00 break
break
18:00 - 18:30

18:30 Banquet
Banquet
18:30 - 20:30
Room: Cafeteria
Thursday, 23 May 2019

07:30 Breakfast
Breakfast
07:30 - 08:30
Room: Cafeteria
08:30
08:30 - 12:15
Room: Room 1&2
Contributions

08:30 Calibration statistics - Vinay Kashyap (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)

08:45 Communication - Guillaume Belanger (ESA, ESAC)

09:00 Contamination - Eric Miller

09:15 Coordinated Observations - Herman Marshall

09:30 Detector and Background - Catherine Grant (MIT)

09:45 Heritage - Matteo Guainazzi

10:00 High Resolution - Adam Foster (SAO)

10:15 Non-Thermal SNR - Kristin Madsen (Caltech) Lorenzo Natalucci

10:30 Thermal SNR - Paul Plucinsky

11:00 White Dwarfs and Isolated Neutron Stars - Vadim Burwitz (MPI for Extraterrestrial Physics)

11:15 Timing - Yukikatsu Terada (Saitama Univ.)

11:30 Cluster of Galaxies - Eric Miller

11:45 Next IACHEC

12:00 Closing remarks - Kristin Madsen (Caltech)
12:15 Lunch
Lunch
12:15 - 13:00
Room: Cafeteria

18:00 Dinner
Dinner
18:00 - 19:00