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GSFC XMM-Newton GOF Status Report #169: XMM-NEWTON NEWS #87

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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:

  - XMM-Newton Workshop "SuperSoft X-ray Sources: New Developments":
    registration and abstract submission open
  - 9th XMM-Newton SAS Workshop
  - Anticipated timeline for next Announcement of Opportunity
  - Release of FLIX: Flux Limits from Images from XMM-Newton
  - XMM-Newton catalogue and data products of the COSMOS field
    available
  - Workshop announcement: High resolution X-ray spectroscopy


XMM-Newton Workshop "SuperSoft X-ray Sources: New Developments":
registration and abstract submission open
================================================================

As announced in issue #80 of the XMM-Newton Newsletter, the
XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre is organising an astrophysical
workshop from Monday 18th to Wednesday 20th May 2009 at the
XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre in 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.

Registration and abstract submission for this workshop is now open.

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION IS 13th of MARCH.

Details on the registration and abstract submission process as well
as on important dates are given at:

http://xmm.esac.esa.int/external/xmm_science/workshops/2009_science/


9th XMM-Newton SAS Workshop
===========================

The XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre announces the 9th SAS Workshop,
which will be held at the European Space Astronomy Centre of ESA
(Villafranca del Castillo, Spain) between the 29th of June and the 3rd
of July 2009.

SAS Workshops aim at providing XMM-Newton users with a basic
introduction to the procedures and techniques to successfully reduce and
analyse XMM-Newton data. The 4-day workshop is organised around 4
half-days of presentations and 4 half-days of practical training
sessions. An extra day can be allocated for practical training sessions
upon demand. The sessions cover all aspects of data reduction and data
analysis for all the X-ray cameras on-board XMM-Newton, as well as for
its Optical Monitor.

Interested persons are encouraged to send an email through the
XMM-Newton Helpdesk at:

http://xmm.esac.esa.int/external/xmm_user_support/helpdesk.shtml

no later than Tuesday, March 31, 2009.

Please specify in the subject line:

Subject: Interest in participating in the 9th XMM-Newton SAS Workshop

and provide the following information:

Name                   :
Organisation           :
Address                :
Country                :
Phone                  :
E-mail                 :
Main Research Field    :

Do you need means of transportation between pre-booked
accommodation at El Escorial and Venue at ESAC ?               : YES/NO
Will you bring your own laptop ?                               : YES/NO
Interested in having an extra 5th day for practical sessions ? : YES/NO
Would you like to have an introductory session to XSPEC ?      : YES/NO

No fee is required to attend the SAS Workshop. We regret to inform that
no financial support is available for Workshop participants.

More information is available at:

http://xmm.esac.esa.int/external/xmm_data_analysis/sas_workshops/sas_ws9_files/


Anticipated timeline for next Announcement of Opportunity
=========================================================

The planned key milestones for the ninth XMM-Newton "Announcement
of Opportunity" have been established. Within this AO-9 a new call
to submit proposals for observations to be performed with the
XMM-Newton observatory will be issued.

To be prepared for this, please find below the anticipated timeline:

Announcement of Opportunity          25 August 2009
Due date for proposals               09 October 2009 (12:00 UT)
Final OTAC approved programme        mid December 2009

For approved proposals only:

Start of phase II proposal submission    11 January 2010
Closure of phase II proposal submission  05 February 2010
Start of AO-9 observations               May 2010

The official "Announcement of Opportunity" will be made public in
the XMM-Newton News and on the XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre
home page.


Release of FLIX: Flux Limits from Images from XMM-Newton
========================================================

The XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre (SSC) recently released an
important new tool called FLIX which provides on-line X-ray
upper-limit and image cutout services for XMM-Newton data.

FLIX is available from the Leicester database and archive service
(LEDAS) at:

http://www.ledas.ac.uk/flix/flix.html

Provided with one or more sky positions as input, FLIX determines
whether any public XMM-Newton pointing covers the position. Where
image data exists, FLIX computes both point-source upper limit fluxes
and encircled fluxes in user-selected XMM-Newton bands, lists any
sources from the 2XMMi catalogue that lie within 30 arcseconds and
extracts thumbnail XMM-Newton X-ray images centred on that point,
returning results via a web table and a downloadable fits file.


XMM-Newton catalogue and data products of the COSMOS field available
====================================================================

The XMM-COSMOS team has completed the analysis of the 1.5 Ms
XMM-Newton observation of the COSMOS field.
A catalogue of ~2000 point-like X-ray sources has been produced and
released to the public. Together with the catalogue, the XMM-COSMOS
team made public to the entire astronomical community a set of
mosaiced images, exposure maps and sensitivity maps suitable for
scientific use. The catalogue and the scientific products can be
downloaded at:

http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/data/COSMOS/

The catalogue and the data released to the community are intensively
described in a paper in press by A&A and retrievable at:

http://arxiv.org/abs/0901.2347.

Up to now, the XMM-COSMOS dataset has been used in 21 refereed
publications, listed at:

http://www.mpe.mpg.de/XMMCosmos/PAPERS/


Workshop announcement: High resolution X-ray spectroscopy
=========================================================

The workshop "High resolution X-ray spectroscopy" will be held on
2009 March 19-20 at the UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UK.

The 'new beginning' with the integration of XEUS and Con-X into IXO,
the many other X-ray astronomy missions under study aimed at high
spectral resolution, together with the high quality data that
XMM-Newton and Chandra will hopefully continue to procure for a
while yet, promise further expansion and strengthening of the high
resolution X-ray spectroscopy field. The 3rd "High resolution X-ray
spectroscopy" workshop will take stock of what has been achieved in
this field, review our current understanding and consider how to
build on it, by taking advantage of future opportunities such as IXO.

For the first time a 'high resolution X-ray spectroscopy school' will
be organised prior to the workshop, on 2009 March 17-18. Aimed at PhD
students and postdocs working both in and outside X-ray astronomy, it
will be an opportunity to learn the principles and practice of high
resolution X-ray spectroscopy as applied to a range of stellar,
Galactic and extragalactic sources.

More information is available from the workshop web site at:

http://www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/~ajb/workshop3/



Yours sincerely,
XMM-Newton SOC

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