Ops. AGENDA

1Science Operations & Data Systems Division Research & Scientific Support Department

XMM-NewtonXMM-Newton

Ops. AGENDA

• 14.00 - 14.50 Operations status and Matters arising L. Metcalfe

G. Buenadicha

• 14.50 - 15.20 EPIC instrument health/monitoring M. Smith

• 15.20 - 15.45 Future instrument operations at ESA L. Metcalfe

• 15.45 - 17.30 DISCUSSION with Coffee: Operations

interface between ESA and the PI teams



Meeting/action Status Subject Actionee Due

EPIC TTD-0014/3 Open Explain increases in pn offset variance in the 840 M. Smith 2005-03-

03 to 870 plus revolution range

EPIC TTD-0014/9 Open Make MOS2 CCD5 effect public M.Stuhlinger 2005-03-03

EPIC TTD-0015/3 Open Subsequently to evaluate and decide which of the A.Abbey 2005-11-03

items resulting from action 15/2 can be delivered

EPIC TTD-0016/1 Open Investigate the possibility of MOS Small Window A. Abbey, 2006-05-29

mode in peripheral CCDs M.Casale

ACTIONS



SCIENCE OPERATIONS STATUSfor

EPIC TTD MEETING

PALERMO

11-13 April 2007

L. Metcalfe SCI-SDX

XMM-Newton Science Support Manager



CONTENTS

• Significant meetings and dates

• Operations: Status & Modes

• General Calibration Points

• Data Processing - SSC

• Miscellaneous



SIGNIFICANT MEETINGS

&

DATES



• OM Cal.& TTD meeting @ MSSL Next 17 Apr. 2007

• Intnl. Working Group on cross-calibration and the 08-11 May 2007

definition of X-ray standards no.II. (IACHEC)

• MEOR Review Team presentations at ESTEC 09-10 May 2007

• MEOR Review Board meets at ESTEC 22 May 2007

• Users Group meeting #8 (UG#8) Dry Run#1 Thursday 24 May 2007

• UG#8 Dry Run#2 Thursday 31 May 2007

• ESAC Science Workshop 2007 (3 days from...) 04-06 June 2007

• XMM-Newton Users Group meeting #8 07-08 June 2007

• SAS Workshop 2007 19-22 June 2007

• "X-rays from nearby galaxies" @ ESAC (Faculty) 05-07 Sep. 2007

• EPIC Consortium Meeting @ Leicester 11-13 Sep. 2007

• EPIC Cal./Ops. Meeting @ Mallorca 29-30 Oct. 2007

• Calibration: Background Working Group (BGWG) 31 Oct. 2007

• ESAC Faculty Wk. Shop on Hot Stars ~Oct. 2007

SIGNIFICANT MEETINGS



SIGNIFICANT DATES I

Proceedings of 2006 Conference (“Variable and Broad Iron

Lines around Black Holes”)

• distributed as Astronomische Nachrichten/Astronomical News

Volume 327, Issue 10, Pages 941-1100 (December 2006)

SAS

• SAS 7.1 to be released mid-July (linked to reprocessing and 2XMM)



SIGNIFICANT DATES II AO6 Call

• Closeed XRPS 09 Feb. 2007

• Begin AO6 observations May 2007

AO7 Call

• Announcement of Opportunity 28 Aug. 2007

• Due date for proposals 12:00UT 05 Oct. 2007

• Final OTAC approved programme late Dec. 2007

For approved proposals only:==>

• Start of phase II proposal submission 14 Jan. 2008

• Closure of phase II proposal submission 09 Feb. 2008

• Start of AO-7 observations May 2008 Page 8



OPERATIONS



STATUS and MODES

All instruments essentially stable

Slow Slew Mode implementation for general users in analysis

Slewing / re-pointing ‘mode’ for RGS implementation for general users in analysis.



GENERAL CALIBRATION POINTS



CCF RELEASE NOTES IN PERIOD

XMM-CCF-REL-222 Update of EPIC MOS2 gain epoch revs. 446-533 31-Oct-2006

XMM-CCF-REL-221 Update of EPIC MOS2 CTI epoch revs. 446-533 31-Oct-2006

XMM-CCF-REL-201 EPIC pn Frame Times and Clock Sequences 02-Nov-2006

XMM-CCF-REL-224 New MOS CTI CCFs public 15-Mar-2007

XMM-CCF-REL-225 Update of EPIC MOS Gain 15-Mar-2007

XMM-CCF-REL-226 RGS Bad Pixels 22-Mar-2007

XMM-CCF-REL-205 PN telescope effective area modification at high E 07-Apr-2007



NRCOs & EORsNRCOs

64 Investigation of EPIC soft flux discrepancies MK 2006-11-14

65 Approved OM photometric calibration AT 2006-12-04

66 RGS-Procyon: The RGS wavelength scale APo 2007-01-11

and line-spread function

67 MOS redistribution off axis and QE check MK 2007-01-18

68 MOS redistribution off-axis and QE check-2 MK 2007-01-31

69 Calibration of pn temperature effects MK 2007-02-08

EORs

01 MOS 3x3 mode QE and pattern Uncom. MK 2007-02-28

02 Cal. Of RGS single-node readout Uncom. APo 2007-02-28



DATA PROCESSING - SSC



Turn-around time between data acquisition and GO (PIPE) delivery as of 31-December-2006



MISCELLANEOUS

PUBLICATIONSOTHER …



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