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 19 May 2019 (15:00) to Thursday 23 May 2019 (20:00)

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

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