2nd IACHEC meeting
I
nternational
A
stronomical
C
onsortium for
H
igh
E
nergy
C
alibration
UCLA Conference Center, Lake Arrowhead, CA USA
http://uclaconferencecenter.com
The meeting took place between 9 & 11 May 2007.
Programme:
"Get up to the 2006 state" talks:
CAL Targets (K. Jahoda)
CAL Management (E. Kendziorra)
Standard Candles (P. Pluchinsky)
Error Treatment (H. Marshall)
Action Items (M. Kirsch)
Update of important Calibration issues per Observatory
:
XMM (M. Kirsch, A. Pollock)
Chandra (L. David)
Suzaku (M. Ishida, H. Matsumoto, M. Kokobun)
Swift 1(G. Sato. T. Sakamoto)
Swift 2 (A. Beardmore)
INTEGRAL (J.P. Roques)
RXTE (RR, KJ)
Standard Candle fitting working groups
Concept of Fitting working groups and data base (M. Kirsch)
SC1: White Dwarfs (Chair: V. Burwitz)
SC2: Isolated Neutron Stars (Chair: F. Haberl)
SC3: Thermal SNR(Chair: P. Plucinsky)
SC4: NonThermal SNR (Chair: M. Ishida)
SC5: Clusters (Chair: J. Nevalainen)
Calibration target working groups
Introduction of Calibration topic/targets working groups (M. Kirsch)
CT1: PSF Calibration (Chair: Read)
CT2: Energy & redistribution Calibration (CTI/Gain): (Chair C. Grant)
CT3: High spectral resolution Calibration (Chair: J. Cottam)
CT4: Timing Calibration (Chair: M. Kirsch)
CT5: Relative effective area Calibration (Chair: H. Marshall)
Summary of action items and agreements (M. Kirsch)
Additional Sessions:
A Calibration Model (how to store, save cal information over 100 years) (A. Pollock)
Discussion on error treatment (H. Marshall)
Evening Sessions
The C
rab
(Richard Rothschild)
Monitoring the Crab Pulsar with RXTE/HEXs
Timing Crab analysis Suzaku (Yukikatsu Terada)
Putting it all together: from white dwarfs to Crab using high spectral resolution: how accurate can we get? (Jelle Kaastra)
PSRB1509-58 (Katja Pottschmidt)
The other end of the energy range - up to 100 GeV (Denis Bastieri)
Participants (35):
Chandra
Herman Marshal
Paul Plucinsky
Joseph DePasquale
Catherine Grant
Larry David
Vadim Burwitz
Jennifer Posson-Brown
Vinay Kashyap
Mark Bautz
Deron Pease
Pete Ratzlaff
INTEGRAL
Elisabeth Jourdain
JP Roques
RXTE
Rick Rothschild (HEXTE)
Keith Jahoda (PCA)
Suzaku
Randall Smith
Eric Miller
Jean Cottam
Manabu Ishida (XRT)
Hironori Matsumoto (XIS)
Motohide Kokubun (HXD)
Yukikatsu Terada (HXD)
Swift
Taka Sakamoto
Goro Sato
Andy Beardmore
XMM
Marcus Kirsch (EPIC)
Andy Pollock (RGS)
Martin Stuhlinger (EPIC)
Steve Sembay (EPIC-MOS)
Jelle Kaastra (RGS)
Eckhard Kendziorra (EPIC-pn)
Uli Briel (EPIC-pn)
Cross mission
Jukka Nevalainen (cross mission cluster)
Rosat
Max Bonamente (Cluster)
MAGIC, GLAST
Denis Bastieri
