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

3:00 PM Registration
Registration
3:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Lobby

6:30 PM Reception
Reception
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Room: Cafeteria

Monday, May 20, 2019

7:30 AM Breakfast
Breakfast
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM
Room: Cafeteria
8:30 AM Calibration status of operational missions - part 1
Calibration status of operational missions - part 1
8:30 AM - 10:25 AM
Room: Room 1&2
Contributions

8:30 AM Welcome & logistics - Masahiro Tsujimoto (JAXA ISAS) Yukikatsu Terada (Saitama Univ.)

8:45 AM MAXI GSC calibration for 10 years data - Mutsumi Sugizaki

9:05 AM NuSTAR status - Kristin Madsen (Caltech)

9:25 AM XMM-Newton calibration status update - Michael Smith (ORNL)

9:45 AM In-orbit calibration status of Insight-HXMT - Xiaobo Li

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

10:40 AM Swift-XRT Calibration Update - Andrew Beardmore

11:00 AM Current Status of NICER calibration - Kenji Hamaguchi

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

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

1:00 PM The Status of eROSITA on Spectr-RG and its Calibration Prior to Launch - Vadim Burwitz

1:20 PM Athena calibration plans - Matteo Guainazzi

1:40 PM The Athena/X-IFU calibration plan - François Pajot
2:00 PM break
break
2:00 PM - 2:20 PM
2:20 PM
2:20 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Room 1&2
Contributions

2:20 PM XRISM Science Operations Plan - Yukikatsu Terada (Saitama Univ.)

2:35 PM XRISM In-orbit calibration plan - Matteo Guainazzi

2:50 PM Calibration of the XRISM Resolve instrument - Maurice Leutenegger

3:10 PM Transmittance calibration of the Dewar gate valve for XRISM Resolve - Takuya Midooka (University of Tokyo, ISAS/JAXA)

3:25 PM Current development status and calibration plan of the X-ray CCDs onboard XRISM - Koji Mori (University of Miyazaki)

3:45 PM Characterization and calibration of the front-end ASIC for the X-ray CCD camera aboard the XRISM satellite - Hikari Kashimura (Kanto Gakuin University)
4:00 PM break
break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM 1: Detectors and Background part 1 (Detectors)
1: Detectors and Background part 1 (Detectors)
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Room 1&2
Contributions

4:30 PM ACIS Gain Challenges, Warm Focal Plane Temperatures, and Lorentzians - Nick Durham

4:50 PM Low energy response calibration and long term gain monitoring of the NuSTAR detectors - Hiromasa Miyasaka

5:10 PM Update on the status of the Chandra ACIS response - Terry Gaetz

5:30 PM A solution to the Si-K edge problem in the Suzaku XIS Response and Its Implication to XRISM Xtend - Kiyoshi Hayashida (Osaka University)

5:50 PM EPIC-pn long term CTI - Ivan Valtchanov

6:10 PM New clocking mode for X-ray CCD detector - Hiroshi Murakami
2: Coordinated observations
2: Coordinated observations
4:30 PM - 6:10 PM
Room: Room special
Contributions

4:30 PM XMM-Newton / Chandra cross calibration with blazars - Michael Smith (ORNL)

4:50 PM Swift-NuSTAR cross-calibration update - Kristin Madsen (Caltech)

5:10 PM XMM-Newton and NuSTAR cross-calibration studies - Felix Fuerst

5:30 PM Swift Operations and Calibration - Jamie Kennea
6:30 PM Dinner
Dinner
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: Cafeteria

8:00 PM Chair Session
Chair Session
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Room: Room 4
Tuesday, May 21, 2019

7:30 AM Breakfast
Breakfast
7:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Cafeteria
9:00 AM 1: Contamination
1: Contamination
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: Room 1&2
Contributions

9:00 AM Continued Monitoring of the Chandra ACIS Contamination - Herman Marshall

9:20 AM The Evolution of the ACIS Contamination Layer on the Chandra X-ray Observatory from 2010 to 2019 - Paul Plucinsky

9:40 AM Measurement of X-ray, UV, optical transmission of Contamination Blocking Filter on board Hitomi SXI - Takayoshi Kohmura

10:00 AM RGS fine structure & edges - Jelle Kaastra
2: Timing
2: Timing
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Room special
Contributions

9:00 AM Timing calibration of the Resolve microcalorimeter spectrometer on XRISM - Makoto Sawada

9:30 AM Timing calibration of NuSTAR - Matteo Bachetti
10:00 AM 2: Galaxy Clusters
2: Galaxy Clusters
10:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: Room special

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

11:00 AM INs and WDs Working Group - Vadim Burwitz

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

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

12:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: Cafeteria
1:00 PM
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Room 1&2
Contributions

1:00 PM Calibration uncertainties and thermal line models - Jelle Kaastra

1:30 PM Cross-calibration Effects in Modeling X-ray Spectra from Accreting Sources - Javier Garcia

2:00 PM Calibration uncertainties on modeling: timing calibration - Yukikatsu Terada (Saitama Univ.)

2:30 PM Discussion
3:00 PM break
break
3:00 PM - 3:20 PM
3:20 PM
3:20 PM - 4:40 PM
Room: Room 1&2
Contributions

3:20 PM An empirical method for improving the XMM-Newton/EPIC-pn RMF and ARF - Konrad Dennerl

3:40 PM XMM-Newton CORRAREA Calibration Status - Christian Pommranz

4:00 PM Characterization of a BSI sCMOS as a soft X-ray detector - Wenxin Wang

4:20 PM Chandra X-ray Observatory Optical Axis, Aimpoint and Pointing Stability¶ - Ping Zhao
4:40 PM break
break
4:40 PM - 5:00 PM
5:00 PM Heritage
Heritage
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Room 1&2
Contributions

5:00 PM Update on the IACHEC Source Database - James Rodi

5:30 PM Reusable cross-calibration workflows - Volodymyr Savchenko (ISDC, Geneva)

5:45 PM Heritage Working Group meeting - Matteo Guainazzi
6:00 PM Dinner
Dinner
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Room: Cafeteria
Wednesday, May 22, 2019

7:30 AM Breakfast
Breakfast
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM
Room: Cafeteria
8:30 AM 1: Thermal SNR
1: Thermal SNR
8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Room: Room special
Contributions

8:30 AM The IACHEC Standard Models for 1E 0102.2-7219 and N132D - Paul Plucinsky

9:00 AM 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
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Room: Room 1&2
Contributions

8:30 AM Flux measurement from high-resolution spectra - Vinay Kashyap

8:50 AM The most sensitive period search we can do on event data - Guillaume Belanger (ESA, ESAC)

9:10 AM Treating detection of transient phenomena as a statistical problem - Guillaume Belanger (ESA, ESAC)
9:30 AM 2. Concordance
2. Concordance
9:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Room: Room 1&2
Contributions

9:30 AM Concordance discussion - Herman Marshall
10:10 AM break
break
10:10 AM - 10:20 AM
10:20 AM 1: Non-thermal SNR
1: Non-thermal SNR
10:20 AM - 11:20 AM
Room: Room special
Contributions

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

10:50 AM 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 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Room 1&2
Contributions

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

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

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

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

11:40 AM Status of modeling Chandra ACIS background - Terry Gaetz
12:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: Cafeteria
1:00 PM
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Room 1&2
Contributions

1:00 PM The XRISM Atomic Data Needs Assessment - Tim Kallman

1:20 PM Status of Atomic Plasma Models - Randall Smith

1:40 PM The Effects of Atomic Data Choices on Calibration Uncertainty - Adam Foster

2:00 PM Effects of different selections of atomic data and plasma emission models - Makoto Sawada

2:20 PM The Need for Laboratory Astrophysics for High-Resolution Spectroscopy - Gabriele Betancourt-Martinez

2:40 PM The Kronos Database of State-Selective Charge Exchange Cross Sections - Renate Cumbee
3:00 PM Group photo
Group photo
3:00 PM - 3:09 PM

3:10 PM break
break
3:10 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Room: Room 1&2
Contributions

4:00 PM Calibration plans for the Wide-field X-ray Telescope on Einstein Probe - Yuan Liu

4:15 PM Calibration and CALDB design for EP/FXT - Chengkui Li (IHEP)

4:30 PM X-ray testing facilities at IHEP and calibration plans for EP&eXTP - Yusa Wang

4:45 PM Calibration plans and development of PFA onboard eXTP - WeiChun Jiang

5:00 PM Preliminary calibration test and results analysis of GRM (SVOM) - Xing Wen
5:15 PM White paper
White paper
5:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Room 1&2

6:00 PM break
break
6:00 PM - 6:30 PM

6:30 PM Banquet
Banquet
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Room: Cafeteria
Thursday, May 23, 2019

7:30 AM Breakfast
Breakfast
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM
Room: Cafeteria
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 12:15 PM
Room: Room 1&2
Contributions

8:30 AM Calibration statistics - Vinay Kashyap (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)

8:45 AM Communication - Guillaume Belanger (ESA, ESAC)

9:00 AM Contamination - Eric Miller

9:15 AM Coordinated Observations - Herman Marshall

9:30 AM Detector and Background - Catherine Grant (MIT)

9:45 AM Heritage - Matteo Guainazzi

10:00 AM High Resolution - Adam Foster (SAO)

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

10:30 AM Thermal SNR - Paul Plucinsky

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

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

11:30 AM Cluster of Galaxies - Eric Miller

11:45 AM Next IACHEC

12:00 PM Closing remarks - Kristin Madsen (Caltech)
12:15 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:15 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: Cafeteria

6:00 PM Dinner
Dinner
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM