Forthcoming Talks

1. Insight-HXMT by Shuang-Nan ZHANG, Principal Investigtor
   July 28, 2020, 8-9p followed by Q&A for 30 minutes
   Paper  |  Presentation (pdf)  |  Recording

2. Student talks: Early peek on NICER & eROSITA (Yao, Sharma)
   August 3, 2020 at 12n
   NICER (Sharma)  |  SRG (Yao)  |  Homework
   

3. NICER by Keith GENDREAU, Principal Investigator
   August 4, 2020, 10a-11:30
   NICER: Nature Astronomy  |  NICER: Mission Guide  |  Presentation  |  Recording

4. eROSITA aboard SRG by Peter PREDEHL, Principal Investigator
   August 5, 2020, 11a-12n followed by 30 minutes of Q&A
   eROISTA: Nature Astronomy  |  eROSITA: 2012 White Paper
   Presentation  |  Recording

5. Zwicky Transient Facility by Team ZTF given to NICER team
   August 6, 2020, 1230-1430
   Presentation  |  Recording

6. Student Talks: Particle Background, Cosmic Background, CCD resolution
   August 12, 2020 at 8-9p
   CCD Spectral Resolution (Karambelkar)  |  Particle Background (Low Earth, Inclined) (De)  |  Particle Background: Low Earth Equatorial Orbit (Sharma)  |  Cosmic X-ray background (Dong)
   Recording of the talks

7. Tutorial Talk: Introduction to Fourier Transform by S. Kulkarni
   August 13 week, 8-9pm
   Post-factor classnotes: Introduction to Fourier (& related) transforms  |  Statistics of power spectrum  |  Recording

8. ASTROSAT/CZTI by Dipankar BHATTACHARYA, Principal Scientist
   August 17, 2020, 10:00-11:00a followed by 30 minutes of Q&A
   History of ASTROSAT  |  ASTROSAT Handbook  |  CZTI/ASTROSAT
   Presentation    Recording

9. Zwicky Transient Facility by Team ZTF given to HXMT group (star talk by Yuhan Yao given in Chinese)
   August 18, 7-9p
   Recording

10. Demonstration: NuSTAR time series analysis by Amruta JAODAND
    August 19, 8-9p
    Reading: van der Kliss paper  |  Recording

11. Stingray: Spectral-Timing Package by Daniela HUPPENKOTHEN, Creator
    August 20, 2020, 8:30-9:30am followed by 30 minutes of Q&A
    Stingray homepage  |  ADAS-Talk.pdf |  Stringray: Python Library  |  Recording

12. PolarLight by Hua FENG, Principal Investigator,Tsinghua University
    September 1, 2020, 8-9p (including Q&A)
    PolarLight mission  |  Presentation  |  Recording

13. Daksha by Varun BHALERAO, Principal Investigator
    September 11, 2020, 8:30-9:30a talk followed by 30 minutes of Q&A
    Presentation  |  Recording

14. MAXI by Hitoshi NEGORO, PI of MAX ALERT system
    September 15, 8-9p talk followed by 30 minutes of Q&A
    MAXI mission  |  MAXI GSC  |  GSC In Orbit Performance  |  Nova Alert system  |  Recording

15. Einstein Probe by Weimin YUAN, Principal Investigator
    September 22, 2020, 8-9p followed by 30 minutes of Q&A
    X-ray Optics for EP |  EP (SPIE)  |  EP CMOS detectors  |  Presentation

16. AGN by Andrew FABIAN, FRS, Kavli Laureate September 28, 9:00-10:00a followed by 30 minutes of Q&A
    Background: Explanation of reflection spectrum  |  Reverberation Studies
    Papers related to talk: 1.5 Million second observations of IRAS 13224-3809: Spectral Analysis |  Variability |  Spectral Variability  |  Blue-shifted lines |  Reveberation
    Presentation |  Recording

17. POLIX by Biswajit PAUL, Principal Investigator
    October 5, 9:30-10:30a followed 30 minutes of Q&A
    Polix-conference1 |  Polix-conference2 |  Presentation  |  Recording

18. Swift/Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) by Amy LIEN, BAT Scientist
    October 13, 2020, 8:30-9:30 followed by 30 minutes of Q&A
    Swift/BAT guide |  BAT catalog |  BAT Monitor |  BAT GRB catalog
    Presentation (pdf)  |  Presentation (pptx)  |  Recording

19. Student Talks & Introducing IACHEC
    October 15, 8-9pm
    Shadow cameras (Plant)  |  Presentation(Plant)
    Introducing IACHEC (Grefenstette)  |  Recording

20. Fermi by Elizabeth "Liz" HAYS, Project Scientist
    October 23, 8:30-9:30a followed by 30 minutes of Q&A
    Large Area Telescope  |  GBM  |  LAT Catalog  |  GBM Catalog
    Review of Blazars |  Review of Pulsars
    pptx |  recording

21. IXPE by Martin WEISSKOPF, Principal Investigator
    November 4, 2020, 10-11a followed by 30 minutes of Q&A
    Project URL  |  Polarization Tutorial  |  IXPE Polarization Methodology  |  IXPE Mission  |  IXPE
    pptx |  pdf |  recording

22. NuSTAR by Fiona HARRISON, Principal Investigator
    November 10, 8-9p followed by up to 30 minutes of Q&A
    AGN number counts and X-ray background (pdf)  |  Development of NuSTAR focusing telescope (pdf)  |  Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array High-Energy X-ray Mission (pdf)  |  Evidence for a jet in GRB 990510 (pdf)  |  Radioactive Ti-44 in Cassiopeia A (pdf)  |  Ultra-luminous X-ray poweredby an accreting neutron star (pdf)
    presentation  |  recording

23. Chandra X-ray Observatory by Patrick SLANE, Director
    November 18, 8:30-9:30a followed by up to 30 minutes of Q&A
    Chandra X-ray Observatory book
    pptx |  Recording

24. THESEUS by Lorenzo Amati, Principal Investigator
    November 23, 8:30-9:30a followed by 30 minutes of Q&A
    Main reference for THESEUS, up to now is the THESEUS website. Articles: Amati et al. and Stratta et al. , both published in Advances in Space Research in 2018.
    Recording  |  pdf

25. Instruments of Chandra by Paul PLUCINSKY
    December 10, 0830-0930 followed by 30 minutes of Q&A
    presentation  |  Recording
    Chandra Users Guide Chapters: 6-9, ACIS, HRC, HETG, LETG
    Fundamental Physics of Si-based X-ray detectors: The X-ray energy response of silicon Part A. Theory by Fraser, G.~W., et al. 1994, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 350, 368
    CCDs for X-ray Astronomy: Chapter 3 (C.Grant) Handbook of X-ray Astronomy 2011 by Arnaud, K, Smith, R., & Siemiginowska, A.  |  Also Charge coupled devices (CCDs) in X-ray astronomy by Lumb, D.~H. et al. 1991, Experimental Astronomy, 2, 179
    ACIS response models: The physics of the low-energy tail in the ACIS CCD. The spectral redistribution function by Prigozhin, G. et al. 2000, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 439, 582  |  Simulating CCDs for the Chandra Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer by Townsley, L.~K. et al. 2002, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 486, 716
    ACIS Charge Transfer Efficiency Modeling and Correction.  |  Modeling charge transfer inefficiency in the Chandra Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer by Townsley, L.~K. et al. 2002, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 486, 751.
    Microchannel Plate Detectors. See Fraser, G., "X-ray Detectors in Astronomy", 1989, Cambridge University Press and Zombeck, M.V., et al. ,"The High Resolution Camera (HRC) on the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF)", Proc. SPIE, 2518, 96, 1995.
    Gratings in X-ray Astronomy: High-Resolution X-Ray Spectroscopy with CHANDRA and XMM-NEWTON. See Paerels, F.~B.~S. & Kahn, S.~M. 2003, ARAA, 41, 291
    The HETG: See Markert, T.H., et al. 1994, "The High Energy Transmission Grating for AXAF", SPIE, 2280, 168.
    The LETG: See Preliminary test results on spectral resolution of the Low Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer on board of AXAF by Brinkman, A. C. et al. 1997, SPIE, 3113, 18

26. Homework: XMM-Netwon. Members are requested to review excellent summary talk on XMM-Newton by Arvind Parmar.

27. Homework: Integral. Members are requested to review excellent summary talk on Integral by Enrico Bozzo.

28. SVOM by Bernard CORDIER, Co-Principal Investigator
    December 16, 0830-0930 followed by 30 minutes of Q&A
    Mission homepage |  SVOM White paper  |  SVOM-summary  |  SVOM&THESEUS
    Talk |  Recording

29. XRISM by Kelley L. RICHARDS, Co-Principal Investigator
    December 17, 0800-0930 followed by 30 minutes of Q&A
    paper on XRISM Presentation & Recording [Requires password]

30. XMM-Newton:The Instruments by Arvind PARMAR, ESA
    February 3, 08:30-09:30a followed by up to 30 minutes of Q&A of Q&A
    Reading Material:Spacecraft |  EPIC |  RGS |  OM
    Presentation Recording

31. XMM-Newton: The Archive by Nora LOISEAU, ESA
    February 15, 0830-0930 followed by up to 30 minute of Q&A presentation  |  recording

32. Chandra Source Catalog by Dr. Francesca CIVANO, CfA
    Feburay 16, 0830-0930a followed by up to 30 minutes of Q&A
    Primary reference in advance of the talk is URL
    Presentation   Recording

33. Pavlinksky ART-XC on SRG by Prof. Aleksandr Lutovinov, Principal Investigator & Deputy Director, IKI
    Talk postponed to Wednesday March 24 from 0830-093 PST followedby up 30 minutes of Q&A
    ART-XC paper |  Presentation |  Recording

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34. Concluding Talk of the X-ray Club:
    March 12 from 0830-0930 PST followed by up to 30 minutes of Q&A

    Title: Illuminating the Dark Ages: cosmic backgrounds from accretion onto primordial black hole dark matter
    Speaker: Guenther Hasinger, Director of Science, European Space Agency

    Abstract: In this seminar I review surprising recent discoveries around black holes and dark matter: Where do the supermassive black holes in the early Universe and in all galaxies come from? How are the very massive black hole binaries created, that produce LIGO/VIRGO gravitational waves? Which black holes produce the tiny early universe fingerprints in the X-ray and infrared cosmic background fluctuations, and the integrated cosmic 21cm signal? And why does dark matter seem to be fluctuating on small scales in the Hubble images of clusters of galaxies? These tantalizing findings add to the puzzle of primordial black holes contributing significantly to the dark matter.

    Hasinger Paper [published as JCAP 7,22 (2020)]  |  Hasinger Biography (Chapter 8)
    Recording  |  Presentation(pdf)

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