IACHEC: International Astronomical Consortium for High Energy Calibration

IACHEC Working Groups

The scope of these working groups is to define standard procedures for the calibration of high-energy instrumentations in specific areas, such as:

The scope of these working groups is:

to define a set of "high-energy standard candles", which can be used as reference for the calibration of past, present and future X-ray instruments. Each type of standard candle is intended to optimally address a specific parameter sub-space in the energy or timing domain
to agree on a "standard spectral model" for each of the high-energy standard candle
to maintain a database of cross-calibration results on the high-energy standard candles
to maintain a database of standard candle spectral data, through which any high-energy astronomers will be able to reproduce and gain confidence on the results produced by the IACHEC Working Groups

White Dwarfs	Isolated Neutron Stars	Thermal SNR	Non thermal SNR	Clusters
Vadim Burwitz (Chair) XMM, Chandra, ROSAT	Frank Haberl (Chair) XMM EPIC-pn	Paul Plucinsky (Chair) Chandra ACIS	Manabu Ishida (Chair) Suzaku	Jukka Nevalainen (Chair)
Frank Haberl XMM	Steve Sembay XMM EPIC-MOS	Dan Dewey / H. Marshall Chandra-HETG	G. Cusumano Andy Beardmore Swift XRT	Larry David Chandra
Jelle Kaastra LETGS, modelling	Cor de Vries, Jean Cottam XMM-RGS	Andy Pollock XMM-RGS	Marcus Kirsch XMM-EPIC	Max Bonamente
Jeremy Drake Chandra	Vadim Burwitz Chandra	Steve Sembay XMM-EPIC-MOS	Jelle Kaastra absorption	Uli Briel XMM EPIC-pn
Herman Marshall Chandra	Andy Beardmore Swift	Frank Haberl XMM-EPIC-pn	Larry David / Y. Maeda Chandra	Steve Snowden EPIC-MOS
Norbert Schulz Chandra	Tadayasu Dotani / Eric Miller Suzaku	Eric Miller Suzaku	Keith Jahoda Rick Rothschild RXTE	Hiro Matsumoto Suzaku
		Andy Beardmore Swift	Elisabeth Jourdain SPI JEM-X, Soeren Brandt???, ISGRI, Nataluci???	Catherine Grant Chandra ACIS
		Randal Smith (atomic phyics)	Swift BAT Taka Sakamoto	Andy Beardmore Swift