Clusters of galaxies working group

• Status

• • WG report in IACHEC 2015 meeting
  • Action items 2015

• Members
  Jukka Nevalainen (chair),  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), K.Kettula (Suzaku/XIS, XMM-Newton/EPIC), S.Jia, C.Li, K. Madsen (Nustar), H.Matsumoto (Suzaku/XIS),  XMM-Newton/EPIC), E.Miller (Suzaku/XIS), N.Ota (Suzaku, Astro-H), 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), N-J. Westergaard (NuSTAR) , H. Zhao

• Objects
  HIFLUGCS sample (~50 clusters)

• Missions/instruments
  XMM-Newton/EPIC, Chandra/ACIS, BeppoSAX/MECS, Suzaku/XIS, ROSAT/PSPC, Swift/XRT

• Projects
  
  1. Multi-Mission Study
  2. NuSTAR
  3. Chandra/XMM-Newton with HIFLUGCS
  4. Cluster physics as calibrator

• 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

• Data
  The archive of data and instrument responses for the cluster sample analysed in Nevalainen et al., 2010, A&A, 523, 22
  
  The archive of data and instrument responses for the cluster sample analysed in Kettula et al., 2013, A&A, 552, 47

         The archive of data and instrument responses for the cluster sample analysed in Schellenberger et al. 2014

• Other Pages
  Lecture notes on X-ray calibration
  
  Suzaku Information

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