XMM-Newton Users Handbook

7 Documentation

We compile here links and references of additional sources of information on XMM-Newton.

1. SOC services related to observations
   • XMM-Newton Phase II Remote Proposal Submission (XRPS)
     http://xmm.esac.esa.int/external/xmm_user_support/documentation/rpsman/

   • Target of Opportunity (ToO)
     http://xmm.esac.esa.int/external/xmm_sched/too/

   • Target Visibility Checker
     http://xmm2.esac.esa.int/external/xmm_sched/vischeck/

   • Observation Lokator (Target search tool for performed or planned observations)
     http://xmm2.esac.esa.int/external/xmm_sched/obs_lokator/

   • Observation & Data Processing Status
     http://xmm2.esac.esa.int/external/xmm_mission_plan/

   • SOC Long Term Planning
     http://xmm.esac.esa.int/external/xmm_sched/advance_plan.shtml

   • XMM-Newton Upper Limit Server
     http://xmm.esac.esa.int/external/xmm_products/slew_survey/upper_limit/uls.shtml

2. SOC services related to the SAS
   • SAS
     http://xmm.esac.esa.int/external/xmm_data_analysis/

   • SAS Documentation (including the Users Guide and analysis threads)
     http://xmm.esac.esa.int/sas/current/howtousesas.shtml

   • SAS Scientific Validation
     http://xmm.esac.esa.int/external/xmm_data_analysis/sas_validation/

   • XMM-Newton Calibration Portal
     http://xmm2.esac.esa.int/external/xmm_sw_cal/calib/

   • EPIC calibration document (XMM-SOC-CAL-TN-0018)
     http://xmm2.esac.esa.int/docs/documents/CAL-TN-0018.pdf

   • RGS calibration document (XMM-SOC-CAL-TN-0030)
     http://xmm2.esac.esa.int/docs/documents/CAL-TN-0030.pdf

   • OM calibration document (XMM-SOC-CAL-TN-0019)
     http://xmm2.esac.esa.int/docs/documents/CAL-TN-0019.pdf

3. Other online SOC services
   • XMM-Newton Science Archive
     http://xmm.esac.esa.int/xsa/

   • XMM-Newton Background Analysis page
     http://xmm2.esac.esa.int/external/xmm_sw_cal/background/

   • XMM-Newton: A Technical Description
     http://xmm.esac.esa.int/external/xmm_user_support/documentation/technical/

   • XMM-Newton Image Gallery
     http://xmm.esac.esa.int/external/xmm_science/gallery/public/

   • XMM-Newton Users Group
     http://xmm.esac.esa.int/external/xmm_user_support/usersgroup/

   • SOC Contact Details & directions on how to get to ESAC
     http://xmm.esac.esa.int/external/xmm_user_support/contact/soc_details.shtml

   • Cross-Calibration Review Tool
     http://xmm2.esac.esa.int/cgi-bin/ept/preview.pl

4. XMM-Newton Mailing lists
   • XMM-Newton HelpDesk
     http://xmm.esac.esa.int/external/xmm_user_support/helpdesk.shtml

   • XMM-Newton News Mailing List
     http://xmm.esac.esa.int/external/xmm_news/news_list/

   • CCF mailing list
     http://xmm.esac.esa.int/mailman/listinfo/ccf/

5. Online XMM-Newton documents
   • Current Announcement of Opportunity (AO)
     http://xmm.esac.esa.int/external/xmm_science/AOannouncement/

   • Policies and Procedures
     http://xmm.esac.esa.int/external/xmm_user_support/documentation/AOpolicy/

   • Quarterly Mission Status & Performance Indicators
     http://xmm.esac.esa.int/external/xmm_news/mission_status/

   • The Behaviour of the XMM-Newton Background, XMM-SOC-GEN-TN-0014
     http://xmm2.esac.esa.int/docs/documents/GEN-TN-0014.pdf

   • XMM-Newton Data Files Handbook
     http://xmm.esac.esa.int/external/xmm_user_support/documentation/dfhb/

   • XMM-Newton Calibration Access and Data Handbook
     http://xmm2.esac.esa.int/docs/documents/CAL-MAN-0001.ps.gz

   • Routine Calibration Plan
     http://xmm2.esac.esa.int/docs/documents/CAL-PL-0001.ps.gz

   • ODF/SDF Interface Control Document
     ftp://xmm.esac.esa.int/pub/odf/data/docs/XMM-SOC-ICD-0004-SSD.ps.gz

   • Data Products Interface Control Document
     ftp://xmm.esac.esa.int/pub/odf/data/docs/XMM-SOC-GEN-ICD-0006-SSC.pdf

   • Data Products Specification Document
     ftp://xmm.esac.esa.int/pub/odf/data/docs/XMM-SOC-GEN-ICD-0024.pdf

   • Online list of XMM-Newton Papers
     http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/xmm/xmmbib.html

6. Documents related to sections of the UHB
   • § 3, XMM-Newton - a concise overview:
     • Jansen et al., 2001, A&A, 365, L1

   • § 3.2, X-ray telescopes:
     • Aschenbach et al., 2000, in X-Ray Optics, Instruments, and Missions III, J.Trümper and B.Aschenbach, eds., SPIE 4012, p.731

     • Gondoin et al., 2000, in X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy XI, K.A.Flanagan, O.H.Siegmund, eds., SPIE 4140, p.1

   • § 3.3, EUROPEAN PHOTON IMAGING CAMERA (EPIC):
     • Strüder et al., 2001, A&A, 365, L18

     • Turner et al., 2001, A&A, 365, L27

     • Lumb et al., 2000, in X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy XI, K.A.Flanagan, O.H.Siegmund, eds., SPIE 4140, p.22

     • EPIC Calibration Status Report, XMM-SOC-CAL-TN-0018

   • § 3.4, REFLECTION GRATING SPECTROMETER (RGS):
     • den Herder et al., 2001, A&A, 365, L7

     • Erd et al., 2000, in X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy XI, K.A.Flanagan, O.H.Siegmund, eds., SPIE 4140, p.13

     • RGS Calibration Status Report, XMM-SOC-CAL-TN-0030

   • § 3.5, OPTICAL MONITOR (OM):
     • Mason et al., 2001, A&A, 365, L36

     • Constraints on the OM Window Configuration and Definition of the OM Default Configurations
       http://xmm2.esac.esa.int/docs/documents/PS-TN-0026-4-1.ps.gz

     • OM Calibration Status Report, XMM-SOC-CAL-TN-0019

   • Appendix A, XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre (SSC):
     • Watson et al., 2001, A&A, 365, L51

     • Watson et al., 2009, A&A, 493, 339

   • Cross Calibration Report
     http://xmm2.esac.esa.int/external/xmm_sw_cal/calib/cross_cal/

7. External links
   • X-ray telescopes at the Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik
     http://www.mpe.mpg.de/xray/wave/xmm/ts/index.php

   • EPIC/MOS at the Physics Department, Leicester University
     http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/physics-and-astronomy/research/src/Missions/xmm-newton/instrument
   • EPIC/pn at the Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik
     http://www.mpe.mpg.de/xray/wave/xmm/epic/

   • RGS at the Space Research Organization Netherlands
     http://www.sron.nl/divisions/hea/xmm/

   • OM at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory
     http://www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/www_astro/xmm/om/om.html

   • SSC: Survey Science Centre
     http://xmmssc-www.star.le.ac.uk/

   • NASA's XMM-Newton Guest Observer Facility
     http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/xmm/xmmgof.html

   • PIMMS (HEASARC)
     http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/Tools/w3pimms.html

   • XSPEC (HEASARC)
     http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/xanadu/xspec/

Additional information on XMM-Newton can always be obtained from other locations under the SOC home page, at http://xmm.esac.esa.int/.