Contamination working group
- Members
Eric Miller (chair, Suzaku, Astro-H)
Andy Beardmore (Swift)
Larry David (Chandra)
Tadayasu Dotani (Astro-H)
Megan Eckart (Astro-H SXS)
Michael Freyberg (eROSITA)
Terry Gaetz (Chandra)
Catherine Grant (Chandra)
Kenji Hamaguchi (Suzaku)
Maurice Leutenegger (Astro-H SXS)
Herman Marshall (Chandra)
Steve O'Dell (Chandra)
Paul Plucinsky (Chandra)
Steve Sembay (XMM-Newton EPIC)
Doug Swartz (Chandra)
Masahiro Tsujimoto (Suzaku, Astro-H)
Cor de Vries (XMM-Newton RGS)
Qazuya Wada (Suzaku)
- Topics
(with thanks to Herman M., Michael F., and Doug S.)- comparison among instruments and missions
- chemical composition
- time dependence
- spatial dependence (micron to cm scales)
- temperature dependence (where is the coldest surface?)
- environmental dependence (orbit)
- mitigation for current instruments
- celestial monitoring targets
- effects on calibration and science results
- "bake-out" procedures
- mitigation for future instruments
- design (cold traps, contamination blocking filters)
- procurement
- ground procedures
- ground testing and calibration
- on-orbit monitoring
- Meetings
- Reference Materials
- XSPEC contamination model hcnofcol: hcnofcol.tar.gz
allows composition to be specified in column densities rather than with respect to H (a la varabs)
see the included README file for parameters and installation instructions