2nd IACHEC meeting
UCLA Conference Center, Lake Arrowhead, CA USA, 9-11 May 2007
Program
"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
- 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
- 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 Crab (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