Contents

• List of Tables
• Introduction
  • Acknowledgements
  
  
• Useful Information and References
  • Main Websites
  • XMM-Newton Help Desks
  • Mission Planning and Spacecraft Status
  • Public Data Archives
  • Software
  • Analysis, Documentation, and Helpful Hints
  
  
• A Few Words for the Veteran SAS Users
• Hera
  • Placing Data on the Hera Servers
  • Setting Up and Running Standard Hera
  • Command Line Hera Syntax and Logic
    • Table and Command Line Syntax
    • Filtering Logic
  
  
• Data
  • Useful Documentation
  • The Data
  • PI Data
    • ODF Data
    • Pipeline Product Data - Summary Files and Groupings
    • Pipeline Product Data - Data Files
  
  
• Preparing the Data for Processing
• An EPIC Data Processing and Analysis Primer
  • A Quick Look at What You Have
  • Rerunning the Pipeline
  • Examine and Filter the Data
    • Create and Display an Image
    • Create and Display a Light Curve
    • Applying Standard Filters the Data
    • Applying Time Filters the Data
  • Extract and Fit the Spectrum
    • Extract the Source Spectrum
    • Extract the Background Spectrum
    • Check for Pile Up
    • My Observation is Piled Up! Now What?
    • Create the Photon Redistribution Matrix (RMF)
    • Create the Ancillary Region File (ARF)
    • Prepare the Spectrum
    • Fit the Spectrum
  • Source Detection
  • Timing Analysis
  • In a Nutshell
  
  
• An RGS Data Processing and Analysis Primer
  • A Quick Look at What You Have
  • Rerunning the pipeline
  • Potentially useful tips for using the pipeline
    • A Nearby Bright Optical Source
    • A Nearby Bright X-ray Source
    • User-defined Source Coordinates
  • Examine and Filter the Data
    • Create and Display an Image
    • Create and Display a Light Curve
    • Generating the Good Time Interval (GTI) File
    • Applying the GTI
    • Creating the Response Matrices (RMFs)
  • Fitting a Spectral Model
    • Combining RGS1 and RGS2 Spectra
  • Approaches to Spectral Fitting
    • Spectral Rebinning
    • Maximum-Likelihood Statistics
  • Analysis of Extended Sources
    • Region masks
    • Making RMFs for extended sources
  • In A Nutshell
  
  
• An OM Data Processing and Analysis Primer
  • OM Artifacts and General Information
  • A Quick Look at What You Have
  • Imaging Mode
    • Rerunning the Pipeline
    • Verifying the Output
  • Fast Mode
    • Rerunning the Pipeline
    • Verifying the Output
  • Grism Analysis
    • Rerunning the Pipeline
    • Verifying the Output
  • In a Nutshell