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GSFC XMM-Newton GOF Status Report # 160: XMM-NEWTON NEWS #80

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               XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre at
                ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre,
  P.O. Box - Apdo. 78, 28691 Villanueva de la Canada, Madrid, Spain

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Contents:

   - Now available: XSA (v5.0) with 2XMMi and OM catalogues
   - Release of a new version of "EPIC status of calibration
     and data analysis" document
   - Users Group: minutes of meeting available
   - Science Workshop: Supersoft X-ray Sources - New Developments


Now available: XSA (v5.0) with 2XMMi and OM catalogues
======================================================

A new version of the XMM-Newton Science Archive (XSAv5.0) is now
available (http://xmm.esac.esa.int/xsa), including some
improvements and allowing users to access the incremental XMM-Newton
EPIC Serendipitous Source Catalogue (2XMMi) and the XMM-Newton OM
Serendipitous Ultra-violet Source Survey (SUSS).

2XMMi

An incremental version (2XMMi) of the second XMM-Newton EPIC
Serendipitous Source Catalogue, 2XMM, is being released with
XSAv5.0. It contains ~289,000 detections (of ~221,000 unique
sources) from 4,117 observations (i.e. 626 more observations than
the original 2XMM catalogue) that were public by May 1st 2008, and
cover a total sky area, with at least 1ks exposure, of ~660
square degrees or ~420 square degrees if overlaps are taken into
account. This represents an increase of approximately 20% in
terms of unique sources compared with 2XMM, released in August 2007.
Of the total, 24,533 detections are classified as extended, and
spectra and time series have been extracted for 44,621 detections,
2,608 of which are considered to be variable. The positional
uncertainty of the catalogue detections is generally < 5 arcseconds.
Typical sensitivities in the 2XMM catalogue are ~6x10^{-15} and
~1.5x10^{-14} (ergs/cm^2/s) in the soft (0.2-2 keV) and hard
(2-12 keV) X-ray band, respectively. The creation of the 2XMMi
catalogue is a joint venture carried out by the SSC consortium.
Details of the catalogue and full 2XMMi documentation is available
at:

http://xmmssc-www.star.le.ac.uk/Catalogue/2XMMi

The downloadable 2XMMi fits file is an 'added value' version of
the 2XMMi catalogue, having two extra extensions, which provide
summary information about each observation used in the catalogue
and details of the target of each observation (useful to users who
want to exclude targets from their survey analysis). Details of the
contents of these extensions are available in the 2XMMi
documentation.

A slimline version of the 2XMMi fits file is also available for
download at http://xmm.esac.esa.int/xsa/. This version has only
one row per unique source (rather than per detection as in the main
catalogue) and a reduced number of columns that essentially pertain
to the unique source quantities.

Alongside the XSA user interface, 2XMMi will become also available
through:

XCATDB:  http://amwdb.u-strasbg.fr
LEDAS:   http://www.ledas.ac.uk
HEASARC: http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/xmm-newton/xmmssc.html


XMM-OM SUSS

The XMM-OM Serendipitous Ultra-violet Source Survey (SUSS) is a
catalogue of UV sources detected serendipitously by the Optical
Monitor (OM) on-board the XMM-Newton observatory. It has been
created at the University College London's (UCL's) Mullard Space
Science Laboratory (MSSL) on behalf of ESA and is a partner resource
to the 2XMM serendipitous X-ray source catalogue.

The catalogue contains source detections drawn from 2,417 XMM-Newton
OM observations in up to three broad band UV filters made between
February 24th 2000 and March 29th 2007. Taking into account
substantial overlaps between observations, the net sky area covered
independently is 29-54 deg2, depending on UV filter. The primary
content of the catalogue is filter-dependent source positions and
magnitudes, and these are accompanied by profile diagnostics and
variability statistics.
The XMM-OM SUSS catalogue contains 753,578 UV source detections
above a signal-to-noise threshold limit of 3-sigma which relate to
624,049 unique objects. A significant fraction of sources
(12% - UVW2, 11% - UVM2, 11% - UVW1) were visited more than once
during XMM-Newton operation, and a large fraction of sources
(38% - UVW2, 23% - UVM2, 22% - UVW1) were observed more than once
per filter during an individual visit.

The positional accuracy of the catalogue detections is typically 1.0
arcsec (1-sigma confidence radius) with a median positional error of
0.67 arcsec. The median AB magnitude of the catalogue detections in
the three UV bands is 19.56 (UVW2), 20.23 (UVM2) and 20.69 (UVW1).
20% of sources have AB magnitudes fainter than 20.28 (UVW2),
20.97 (UVM2) and 21.54 (UVW1).

The processing used to generate the catalogue is based on the SAS
8.0 Science Analysis Software developed for the pipeline reduction
of all XMM-Newton observations.

The XMM-OM SUSS catalogue documentation is available at:
http://www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/~mds/XMM-OM-SUSS.

The catalogue can be accessed through the XSA interface or
downloaded as a fits file from http://xmm.esac.esa.int/xsa.


Release of a new version of "EPIC status of calibration and data
analysis" document
=================================================================

Version 2.7 of the EPIC status of calibration and data analysis
document has been released. This document reflects the improvements
in the EPIC calibration with SAS version 8.0.0 and the newest CCFs.
The document is available from the XMM-Newton Calibration Portal at

http://xmm2.esac.esa.int/docs/documents/CAL-TN-0018.pdf


Users Group: minutes of meeting available
=========================================

The XMM-Newton Users Group met on the 6th and 7th of May 2008 at
ESAC. The minutes were approved on the 18th of July and put on the
web. Please find these minutes at:

http://xmm.esac.esa.int/external/xmm_user_support/usersgroup

where all presentations are also available.


Science Workshop: Supersoft X-ray Sources - New Developments
============================================================

The XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre is organising a workshop
in the spring of next year, with the following subject, dates and
venue:

         "Supersoft X-ray Sources - New Developments"

                   18th - 20th of May 2009

         XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre at ESA's
         European Space Astronomy Centre, Madrid, Spain

The aim of the workshop is to summarise the present status of
supersoft X-ray sources (SSS) research from the observational as
well as the theoretical side in order to identify the most critical
unsolved problems.

Further information is available at:
http://xmm.esac.esa.int/external/xmm_science/workshops/2009_science

Details on the registration and abstract submission process as well
as on important dates will be posted on that page and announced in
a future XMM-Newton Newsletter.



Yours sincerely,
XMM-Newton SOC

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