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IACHEC CROSS-CALIBRATION OF CHANDRA, NuSTAR, SWIFT, SUZAKU, XMM-NEWTON WITH 3C 273 ANDPKS 2155-304

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posted on 2019-06-14, 14:20 authored by KK Madsen, AP Beardmore, K Forster, M Guainazzi, HL Marshall, ED Miller, KL Page, M Stuhlinger
On behalf of the International Astronomical Consortium for High Energy Calibration, we present results from the cross-calibration campaigns in 2012 on 3C 273 and in 2013 on PKS 2155-304 between the then active X-ray observatories Chandra, NuSTAR, Suzaku, Swift, and XMM-Newton. We compare measured fluxes between instrument pairs in two energy bands, 1–5 keV and 3–7 keV, and calculate an average cross-normalization constant for each energy range. We review known cross-calibration features and provide a series of tables and figures to be used for evaluating cross-normalization constants obtained from other observations with the above mentioned observatories.

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K.K.M. was supported under NASA Contract No. NNG08FD60C, and made use of data from the NuSTAR mission, a project led by the California Institute of Technology, managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. H.L.M. was supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) through the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) contract SV3-73016 to MIT for support of the Chandra X-Ray Center (CXC), which is operated by SAO for and on behalf of NASA under contract NAS8-03060. A.P.B. and K.L.P. acknowledge support from the UK Space Agency. E.D.M. acknowledges funding from NASA grant NNX09AE58G to MIT to support the Suzaku XIS. We thank the IACHEC for organizing the campaigns and providing the forum for development and discussion of the cross-calibration results that have led to this paper, and thank the referee for comments and suggestions. Facilities: Chandra - , NuSTAR - The NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array) mission, Swift - Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission, Suzaku - Suzaku (ASTRO-EII), and XMM-Newton. - Newton X-Ray Multimirror Mission satellite.

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Astronomical Journal, 2017, 153 (1)

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/Organisation/COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING/Department of Physics and Astronomy

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Astronomical Journal

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American Astronomical Society, IOP Publishing

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0004-6256

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1538-3881

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2016

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2019-06-14

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https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/153/1/2

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en

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