IACHEC Heritage Working Group

The last meeting of the IACHEC Heritage Working Group was held on the 23th of April 2015 (10th IACHEC). The outcome of the discussion is summarized in the following documents:

• Heritage Working Group Charter
  
• Summary of the 1st Working Group meeting at the 9th IACHEC
• Introduction to and summary of the 2nd Working Group meeting at the 10th IACHEC
• List of actions
• A Synoptic View of In-Flight Calibration Plans (JATIS paper, submitted version, 17 June 2015)
• Standards for spectral calibration data analysis (IACHEC Report Series#3, draft version 0.1)
• Questionnaire to build an IACHEC knowledge database (draft version 0.1, 7 August 2015)
  

Library of ground-based and in-flight calibration documents:

• Chandra
• XMM-Newton:
  • EPIC public calibration documents
  • RGS public calibration documents
  • telescopes' calibration documents
• NuSTAR
  • NuSTAR in-orbit calibration paper: "Calibration of the NuSTAR High-energy Focusing X-ray Telescope", K. K. Madsen et al, ApJS, 220, 8,2015
  • SPIE telescope articles:
    • "In-flight PSF calibration of the NuSTAR hard X-ray optics", H. An et al, 9144, 1, 2014
    • "NuSTAR on-ground calibration: I. Imaging quality", N. J. Westergaard, 8443, 2012
      
    • "NuSTAR on-ground calibration: II. Effective area", N. Brejnholt et al, 8443, 2012
    • "Coatings for the NuSTAR mission", F. Christensen et al, 8147, 2011
    • "NuSTAR ground calibration: The Rainwater Memorial Calibration Facility (RaMCaF)", N. Brejnholt et al2011, 8147, 2011
    • "First results from the ground calibration of the NuSTAR flight optics", J. Koglin, 8147, 2011
    • "Fabrication of the NuSTAR flight optics", W. Craig et al, 8147, 2011
    • "NuSTAR: system engineering and modeling challenges in pointing reconstruction for a deployable x-ray telescope", I. Harp et al, 7738, 2010
    • "Optimizations of Pt/SiC and W/Si multilayers for the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array", K. K. Madsen et al, 7437, 16, 2009
      
    • "Evaluation of epoxy for use on NuSTAR optics", H. An et al, 7437, 2009
    • "NuSTAR hard X-ray optics design and performance", J. E. Koglin et al, 7437, 2009 
    • "W/SiC and Pt/SiC multilayers for the NuSTAR hard X-ray telescope", C. P. Jensen et al, 5900, 2005
  • SPIE detector articles:
    • "Inflight performance and calibration of the NuSTAR CdZnTe pixel detectors", T. Kitaguchi et al, 9144, 2014
    • "Spectral calibration and modeling of the NuSTAR CdZnTe pixel detectors", T. Kitaguchi et al, 8145, 2011
    • "Development of focal plane detectors for the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) mission", V. Rana et al, 7435, 2009
  • SPIE operations articles:
    • "NuSTAR observatory science operations: on-orbit acclimation", K. Forster et al, 9149, 2014
    • "Highly automated on-orbit operations of the NuSTAR telescope", B. Roberts et al, 9149, 2014
  • SPIE mast articles:
    • "NuSTAR: System  engineering and modeling challenges in pointing reconstruction for a deployable X-ray telescope", D. I. Harp et al, 7738, 2010