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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
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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
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SCIENCE OPERATIONS STATUSfor
EPIC TTD MEETING
PALERMO
11-13 April 2007
L. Metcalfe SCI-SDX
XMM-Newton Science Support Manager
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CONTENTS
• Significant meetings and dates
• Operations: Status & Modes
• General Calibration Points
• Data Processing - SSC
• Miscellaneous
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SIGNIFICANT MEETINGS
&
DATES
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• 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
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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)
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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
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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.
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GENERAL CALIBRATION POINTS
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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
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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
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Turn-around time between data acquisition and GO (PIPE) delivery as of 31-December-2006
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MISCELLANEOUS
PUBLICATIONSOTHER …
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