Clusters of galaxies working group

Status

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), J. de Plaa, K. Forster (NuSTAR), C.Grant (Chandra/ACIS), S.Jia, C.Li, K. Madsen (NuSTAR), H.Matsumoto (XRISM, Hitomi, 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), S.Suchy, C.Tenzer (XMM-Newton/EPIC-pn), I.Valtchanov (XMM-Newton/EPIC), N-J. Westergaard (NuSTAR) , H. Zhao (HXMT)

Meetings

Objects

HIFLUGCS sample (~50 clusters)

Missions/Instruments

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

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

• "Cross-calibrating X-ray detectors with clusters of galaxies: an IACHEC study", Nevalainen J., 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., et al., 2015, A&A, 575, 30
• "Reconciling Planck cluster counts and cosmology? Chandra/XMM instrumental calibration and hydrostatic mass bias", Israel, H., et al., 2015, MNRAS, 448, 814
  

Miscellaneous

• Lecture notes on X-ray calibration
• Suzaku Information

Attachments

Clusters_WG_report_2016.pdf