Chandra Calibration Status  Highlights from the Chandra Calibration Review  New results on the HRMA effective area  Updates to the ACIS contamination.

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Chandra Calibration Status  Highlights from the Chandra Calibration Review  New results on the HRMA effective area  Updates to the ACIS contamination model  Flux Cross-Calibration with Other X-ray Telescopes

Proper Stellar Motions with Chandra

Temperature-dependent ACIS gain corrections

Recent HRMA Calibration Results CALDB Version

Optical depth of the contaminant at the Mn-L and F-K complex on ACIS-S Updates to the ACIS contamination Model

External Calibration Source (ECS) Courtesy of Dan McCammon

External Calibration Source (ECS)

Surface Roughness of ACIS Filter Contaminant External Calibration Source (ECS)

Effect of Surface Roughness on Measured Optical Depths External Calibration Source (ECS)

Revised ACIS Contamination Model CALDBNew

The Coma Cluster CALDB 2009 New

LETG/ACIS-S Observation of Mkn 421 CALDBNew

Flux Cross-Calibration with Other X-Ray Telescopes OVII OVIII Ne IX Ne X

Simultaneous Chandra/XMM-Newton AGN Observations

Additional AO-11 Calibration Observations  A set of 5 LETG/ACIS-S observations of Mkn421  A set of 4 observations of Abell 1795 on ACIS-I and ACIS-S  Measure the C-K edge optical depth at the aim-point on S3 with a LETG/ACIS-S observation of Mkn421