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

14th Workshop of International Astronomical Consortium for High Energy Calibration

from Sunday, May 19, 2019 (3:00 PM) to Thursday, May 23, 2019 (8:00 PM)

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