Proceedings of the 2009 Chandra Calibration Review

September 21, 2009

Seaport World Trade Center, Boston, MA

Session I: HRC, LETG, HRMA (Chair: Stephen O'Dell)

• Studies of the Point-Spread Function of the Chandra High Resolution Camera - Michael Juda [C.5]
• The Imaging and Spectral Performance of the HRC - Vinay Kashyap [C.14]
• A New Gain Map and Pulse-Height Filter for the LETG/HRC-S Spectrometer - Bradford Wargelin [C.13]
• Revisions to the HRC-S Quantum Efficiency at Energies above the Carbon Edge - R. Nicholas Durham [C.15]
• Summary of the Recent Update to the Chandra HRMA Calibration - Terrance Gaetz [C.3]
• Discarding the Tea Leaves: What's in store for the HRMA Effective Area - Diab Jerius [C.2]
• The Quality and Stability of Chandra Telescope Pointing and Spacial Resolution - Ping Zhao [C.1]

• Developing contributed software to correct for the temperature dependence of charge transfer inefficiency - Catherine Grant & Jennifer Posson-Brown [C.19]
• Charge Transfer Inefficiency in the ACIS Continuous Clocking Mode - Richard Edgar [C.20]
• High Energy Transmission Grating Spectra in Continuous Clocking Mode - Norbert Schulz [C.21]
• Updating the Chandra ACIS Contamination Model - Herman Marshall [C.18]

• Towards the Definition of High Energy Calibration Standards: The International Astronomical Consortium for High Energy Calibration (IACHEC) - Paul Plucinsky [C.12]
• More Parametrization of the Chandra Point Spread Function - Jean Connelly [C.4]
• A Monte Carlo Method for Including Chandra Instrument Response Uncertainties in Parameter Estimation Studies - Jeremy Drake [C.11]
• ACIS after ten years: Detector performance then, now, and into the next decade - Catherine Grant [C.22]
• How to Create a HRC Background Map for an Observation - Takashi Isobe [C.17]
• Combining Statistical and Systematic Uncertainties for High Counts Spectra - Hyunsook Lee [C.10]
• An edge-like feature in high signal-to-noise ratio spectra of galaxy clusters - En-Hsin Peng [C.6]
• SUMAMPS-based gain maps and RMF for the HRC-I - Jennifer Posson-Brown [C.16]

• On Calibrations using the Crab Nebula as a Standard Candle - Martin Weisskopf [C.7]
• Using 1E 0102.2-7219 and G21.5-0.9 to Cross-calibrate Chandra, XMM, Swift,& Suzaku - Paul Plucinsky [C.8]
• Cross spectral calibration between Suzaku and Chandra with the BL Lac object PKS2155-304 - Manabu Ishida [C.9]
• A Comparison of Cluster Temperatures Derived from Chandra and XMM-Newton - Laurence David [C.23]

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