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The last meeting of the IACHEC Heritage Working Group was held on the 2nd of March 2016 (11th IACHEC). The outcome of the discussion is summarized in the following documents:

• Heritage Working Group Charter
  
• Summary of the 1st Working Group meeting at the 9th IACHEC
• Introduction to and summary of the 2nd Working Group meeting at the 10th IACHEC
• Introduction to and summary of the 3rd Working Group meeting at the 11th IACHEC
• List of actions
• On the in-flight calibration plans of modern X-ray observatories (JATIS paper, accepted version, 29 December 2015) 

Library of ground-based and in-flight calibration documents:

• Chandra
• Hitomi (in-flight calibration plan)
• Integral
  • JEM-X

    • Brandt S., et al., “JEM–X inflight performance”, A&A 411, L243–L251 (2003)

    • Loffredo G., et al., “X–ray facility for the ground calibration of the X–ray monitor JEM-X on board INTEGRAL”, A&A 411, L239–L242 (2003)

    • Frontera, F., et al. 1997, “Ground and On-Board Calibration Design of the JEM-X Detector” Proc. of the 2nd INTEGRAL Workshop, 16-20 September 1996, St. Malo, France. Edited by C. Winkler, T. J.-L. Courvoisier, and Ph. Durouchoux, European Space Agency, 1997., p.663

    • Pareschi, G. et al. 1997, “Hard x-ray calibration facility design for JEM-X detector on board INTEGRAL”

      SPIE Proceedings Vol. 3114

  • SPI

    • Roques, J. et al. 2003, “SPI/INTEGRAL in-flight performance”, A&A 411, L91–L100 (2003)

    • Schanne, S. et al 2001, “The space-borne INTEGRAL-SPI gamma ray telescope: test and calibration campaigns”, IEEE, Trans. Nucl. Sci.,p.478 - 482 vol.1

    • Lonjou, V. et al. 2005, "Characterization of the in-flight degradation of the INTEGRAL/SPI detectors”, Nucl. Inst. Meth. A, 554, 320–330

    • Schanne et al. 2003, “Calibration of the spectrometer aboard the INTEGRAL satellite”, Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 4851, pp. 1132-1143 (2003)

    • Attie, D. et al. 2003, “Integral/SPI ground calibration”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, v. 411(no.1); p. L71-L79

    • Sturner, S.J. et al. 2003, “Monte Carlo simulations and generation of the SPI response”, A&A 411, L81-L84 (2003)

  • IBIS

    • Caballero, I. et al., “INTEGRAL IBIS/ISGRI energy calibration in OSA 10”, Proc.Conf “An INTEGRAL view of the high-energy sky (the first 10 years)" October 15-19, 2012, Paris, France

    • R. Terrier et al., “In flight calibration of the ISGRI camera”, Astron.Astrophys. 411 (2003) L167-L172

    • F. Lebrun, “The ISGRI CdTe gamma camera In-flight behavior”, IEEE Trans.Nucl.Sci. 52 (2005) 3119-3123 astro-ph/0411411

    • Malaguti, G., Di Cocco, G. & Stephen, J.B, “In-flight calibration requirements for the PICsIT high-energy imaging detector” Proc. SPIE 3765, EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy X, 42 (October 22, 1999)

    • Quadrini, E.M. et al.,”IBIS Veto System: Background rejection, instrument dead time and zoning performance”, A&A 411, L153-L157 (2003)

    • Natalucci, L. et al., “Systematic effects induced on IBIS detectors by background and inhomogeneity of the spatial response”, A&A 411, L209–L213 (2003)

• NuSTAR
  • NuSTAR in-orbit calibration paper: "Calibration of the NuSTAR High-energy Focusing X-ray Telescope", K. K. Madsen et al, ApJS, 220, 8,2015
  • SPIE telescope articles:
    • "In-flight PSF calibration of the NuSTAR hard X-ray optics", H. An et al, 9144, 1, 2014
    • "NuSTAR on-ground calibration: I. Imaging quality", N. J. Westergaard, 8443, 2012 
    • "NuSTAR on-ground calibration: II. Effective area", N. Brejnholt et al, 8443, 2012
    • "Coatings for the NuSTAR mission", F. Christensen et al, 8147, 2011 
    • "NuSTAR ground calibration: The Rainwater Memorial Calibration Facility (RaMCaF)", N. Brejnholt et al2011, 8147, 2011 
    • "First results from the ground calibration of the NuSTAR flight optics", J. Koglin, 8147, 2011 
    • "Fabrication of the NuSTAR flight optics", W. Craig et al, 8147, 2011
    • "Optimizations of Pt/SiC and W/Si multilayers for the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array", K. K. Madsen et al, 7437, 16, 2009
      
    • "Evaluation of epoxy for use on NuSTAR optics", H. An et al, 7437, 2009
    • "NuSTAR hard X-ray optics design and performance", J. E. Koglin et al, 7437, 2009 
    • "Manufacture of Mirror Glass Substrates for the NuSTAR Mission", W. Zhang et al, 7437, 2009
    • "W/SiC and Pt/SiC multilayers for the NuSTAR hard X-ray telescope", C. P. Jensen et al, 5900, 2005
  • SPIE detector articles:
    • "Inflight performance and calibration of the NuSTAR CdZnTe pixel detectors", T. Kitaguchi et al, 9144, 2014 
    • "Spectral calibration and modeling of the NuSTAR CdZnTe pixel detectors", T. Kitaguchi et al, 8145, 2011 
    • "Development of focal plane detectors for the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) mission", V. Rana et al, 7435, 2009
  • SPIE operations articles:
    • "NuSTAR observatory science operations: on-orbit acclimation", K. Forster et al, 9149, 2014 
    • "Highly automated on-orbit operations of the NuSTAR telescope", B. Roberts et al, 9149, 2014 
  • SPIE mast articles:
    •  "NuSTAR: System engineering and modeling challenges in pointing reconstruction for a deployable X-ray telescope", D. I. Harp et al, 7738, 2010  
• Swift (in-flight calibration plan)
  
• XMM-Newton:
  • EPIC public calibration documents
  • RGS public calibration documents
  • telescopes' calibration documents