Detectors and Backgrounds Working Group (formerly CCD)
- Members (based on attendance at WG at any IACHEC - OUTDATED)
Catherine Grant (chair, Chandra/ACIS), Andy Beardmore (Swift/XRT), Dick Edgar (Chandra/ACIS), Matteo Guainazzi (XMM/EPIC), Eric Miller (Suzaku/XIS), Paul Plucinsky (Chandra/ACIS), Steve Sembay (XMM/EPIC-MOS), Michael Smith (XMM/EPIC-pn), Mutsumi Sugizaki (MAXI/SSC), Masahiro Tsujimoto (Suzaku/XIS), Claudio Pagini (Swift/XRT), Kip Kuntz, Jon Gelbord (Swift/XRT), Norbert Schultz (Chandra/ACIS), Kenji Hamaguchi (Suzaku/XIS), Vinay Kashyap (Chandra), Jenny Posson-Brown (Chandra/ACIS), Diab Jerius (Chandra), Keith Arnaud (XSPEC), Terry Gaetz (Chandra/ACIS), Kip Kuntz (Backgrounds), Lorenzo Natalucci (Backgrounds), Nick Durham (Chandra/ACIS), Koji Mori (Hitomi/SXI), Silvano Molendi (XMM background)
- Missions
Chandra-ACIS, XMM EPIC-pn, XMM EPIC-MOS, Swift XRT, Suzaku XIS, MAXI SSC, Hitomi SXI
- Purpose (from April 2010 meeting)
- Provide a forum for cross-mission discussion and comparison of CCD-specific modeling and calibration issues
- Produce documents (SPIE level) discussing these comparisons, pros/cons of each approach
- Produce a document (A&A level?) discussing lessons learned and best practices for CCD-based instruments
- Short-term Goals (from April 2010 meeting)
- Provide structure for organizing/sharing information (this wiki)
- Library of links to key papers and memos, indexed by mission, topic (i.e. CTI monitoring, correction, etc.) (in progress, see below)
- Establish three sub-groups for detailed study of topics of special interest
- Discussion Topics at IACHEC 2011
- Tour of the CCD Working Group wiki page
- Timing modes
- XIS/ACIS performance evolution comparison study
- Future Plans
- Continue to populate the wiki
- Address questions raised by timing modes discussion
- ACIS/XIS performance evolution paper
- IACHEC WG meetings are productive, keep this conversation going outside of physical meetings
- Discussion Topics at IACHEC 2012
- Discussion Topics at IACHEC 2013
- Discussion Topics at IACHEC 2014
- Discussion Topics at IACHEC 2015
- Discussion Topics at IACHEC 2016
- Discussion Topics at IACHEC 2017
- Discussion Topics at IACHEC 2018
- Discussion Topics at IACHEC 2019
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