Meetings

• WG Meeting #3: 2023-05-15 (La Granja, Spain)
• WG Meeting #2: 2023-04-26 (Pelham, Germany)
• WG Meeting #1: 2021-05-11 (virtual)

Missions/Instruments

XMM-Newton/EPIC, Chandra/ACIS, BeppoSAX/MECS, Suzaku/XIS, ROSAT/PSPC, Swift/XRT, HXMT, ASTROSAT, Hitomi, eROSITA

Objects

HIFLUGCS sample (~50 clusters

Projects

• Multi-Mission Study
• NuSTAR
• Chandra/XMM-Newton with HIFLUGCS
• Cluster physics as calibrator

Data

The following pages contain an archive of data and response used for cluster sample analysis in the specified paper.

• Nevalainen et al., 2010, A&A, 523, 22
• Kettula et al., 2013, A&A, 552, 47
• Schellenberger et al. 2015, A&A, 575, 30

Publications

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Clusters standard candle working group

• Members                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Jukka Nevalainen (chair),  A.Beardmore (Swift/XRT), M.Bonamente, L.David (Chandra), C.Grant (Chandra/ACIS), H.Matsumoto (Suzaku/XIS), K. Kettula (Suzaku/XIS,  XMM-Newton/EPIC), E.Miller (Suzaku/XIS), A.Read (XMM-Newton/EPIC-MOS), S.Snowden (XMM-Newton/EPIC-MOS), M.Stuhlinger (XMM-Newton/EPIC),  C.Tenzer (XMM-Newton/EPIC-pn).
  Objects
  A1795, A2029, A2052, A2199, A262, A3112, A3571, A85, Coma, HydraA, MKW3S
  Missions/instruments                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          XMM-Newton/EPIC, Chandra/ACIS, BeppoSAX/MECS, Suzaku/XIS
  Short-term goals                                                                                                                                                                               The current plan of activites as discussed in Frascati 2011 meeting
  Publications                                                                                                                                                                           Cross-calibrating X-ray detectors with clusters of galaxies: an IACHEC study", Nevalainen J., David  David L. and Guainazzi M., 2010, A&A, 523, 22 
• "Cross-calibration of Suzaku XIS and XMM-Newton EPIC using clusters of galaxies", Kettula, K., Nevalainen J and E. Miller, 2013, A&A, 552, 47
• "XMM-Newton and Chandra Cross Calibration Using HIFLUGCS Galaxy Clusters", Schellenberger, G., Data
  The archive of data and instrument responses for the cluster sample analysed in Nevalainen et al., 20102015, A&A, 523575, 22
  Chandra ACIS Data
  ACIS Spectra and response files for all of the clusters in Nevalainen et al., 2010, A&A, 523, 22
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Attachments

• 30
• "Reconciling Planck cluster counts and cosmology? Chandra/XMM instrumental calibration and hydrostatic mass bias", Israel, H., et al., 2015, MNRAS, 448, 814

Presentations

• WG report in IACHEC April 2021 virtual meeting: iachec_clusters_summary_20210519_v1.pdf
• WG report in IACHEC 2018 meeting
  

Members

• Eric Miller (chair, XRISM, Hitomi, Suzaku/XIS)
• A. Beardmore (Swift/XRT)
• M.Bonamente
• Y.Chen (HXMT)
• Y.-P.Chen (HXMT)
• L. David (Chandra)
• G. Dewangan (AstroSat/SXT)
• J. de Plaa
• K. Forster (NuSTAR)
• F. Fuerst (XMM-Newton)
• F. Gastaldello (XMM-Newton/EPIC)
• C.Grant (Chandra/ACIS)
• S. Jia (HXMT)
• C. Li (HXMT)
• K. Madsen (NuSTAR)
• C. Markwardt (NICER)
• H. Matsumoto (XRISM/Xtend, Hitomi/SXI, Suzaku/XIS)
• N. Ota (XRISM, Hitomi, Suzaku/XIS)
• A. Read (XMM-Newton/EPIC-MOS)
• G. Schellenberger (XMM-Newton/EPIC, Chandra/ACIS)
• S. Snowden (XMM-Newton/EPIC-MOS)
• M. Stuhlinger (XMM-Newton/EPIC)
• I. Valtchanov (XMM-Newton/EPIC)
• N-J. Westergaard (NuSTAR)
• D. Wik (NuSTAR)
• H. Zhao (HXMT)

Miscellaneous

• Lecture notes on X-ray calibration
• Suzaku Information

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