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1. Timing Calibrations of X-ray missions
1.1 Summary of Timing Requirement and Calibrations
| Mission/Instruments | Science Requirement Absolute Time | Timing System Design | Timing Calibration Status | In-orbit Timing-Calibration Targets | Reported Issues | Reference | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Requirement | Goal | GPS Receiver | Clock Stability | (Absolute Timing Precision) | ||||
RXTE/PCA  | ||||||||
| Chandra / ACIS | ||||||||
| Chandra / HRC | ||||||||
| XMM-Newton/EPIC-MOS | ||||||||
| XMM-Newtion/EPIC-PN | ||||||||
| INTEGRAL/SPI | ||||||||
| INTEGRAL/IBIS | ||||||||
| Swift/BAT | ||||||||
| Swift/XRT | ||||||||
Suzaku/XIS | ||||||||
| Suzaku/HXD | ||||||||
| NuSTAR/FPM | 0.1 ms | 0.1 ms | ~5ms offset using | |||||
| Astrosat | ||||||||
| HXMT | ||||||||
| Hitomi/SXS,SXI,HXI,SGD | ||||||||
| NICER | ||||||||
| eROSITA | ||||||||
XRISM/Resolve  | ||||||||
| XRISM/Xtend | ||||||||
Mission completed.
Future Mission
1.2 Point of Contacts
| Mission | PoC |
|---|---|
| RXTE | to be confirmed |
| Chandra | Vinay Kashyap |
| XMM-Newton | Felix Fuerst, Simon Rosen |
| Swift | Amy Lien |
| INTEGRAL | Guillaume Belanger, Volodymyr SAVCHENKO |
| NuSTAR | Matteo Bachetti, Katja Pottschmidt |
| Astrosat | Gulab Dewanga, (Dipankar Bhattacharya; to be confirmed) |
| HXMT | Xiaobo LI |
| NICER | Craig Markwardt, Teruaki Enoto |
| eROSITA | to be confirmed |
| Suzaku | Yukikatsu Terada |
| Hitomomi | Yukikatsu Terada |
| XRISM | Yukikatsu Terada |
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