GSFC XMM-Newton GOF Status Report #188: XMM-NEWTON NEWS #102

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_/           XMM-NEWTON  NEWS   #102   ---  19-Jan-2010           _/
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Contents:

  - Version 2.0 of the XMM-Newton SSC products specifications document
    released
  - Anticipated   timeline  for   next   XMM-Newton  Announcement   of
    Opportunity
  - Meeting announcement: 5th International Astronomical Consortium
    for High Energy Calibration
  - Announcement of 38th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Symposium E19
  - Workshop announcement: 460th WE-Heraeus Seminar: "Black Holes"


Version  2.0 of  the XMM-Newton  SSC products  specifications document
released
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A  revised  version of  the  XMM-Newton  Survey  Science Centre  (SSC)
products specifications document  has been issued by the  SSC and made
available on the XMM-Newton Proposer's Info and Manuals web page at:

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

under the subsection 'Data Handling'.

The 'Specifications for individual SSC data products' is the reference
document describing the individual  XMM-Newton SSC data product files.
It is intended to be of use to scientists analysing XMM-Newton data.


Anticipated timeline for next XMM-Newton Announcement of Opportunity
====================================================================

The planned  key milestones for the tenth  XMM-Newton "Announcement of
Opportunity" have  been established. Within  this AO-10 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     24 August 2010
Due date for proposals          08 October 2010 (12:00 UT)
Final OTAC approved programme   mid December 2010

For approved proposals only:

Start of phase II proposal submission     10 January 2011
Closure of phase II proposal submission   04 February 2011
Start of AO-10 observations               May 2011

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


Meeting  announcement: 5th  International Astronomical  Consortium for
High Energy Calibration
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The International Astronomical  Consortium for High Energy Calibration
(IACHEC;  http://web.mit.edu/iachec)  is   a  working  platform  where
scientists  involved  in the  calibration  of high-energy  instruments
coordinate their work.  The IACHEC  aims to provide standards for high
energy  calibration   and  to  supervise   cross  calibration  between
different missions. This goal is reached through working groups, where
IACHEC   members  cooperate  to   define  calibration   standards  and
procedures.

The next  IACHEC meeting  will take place from the 12th to the 15th of
April   at   the   Marine   Biological  Laboratory   in   Woods   Hole
(Massachusetts, U.S.A.).

IACHEC welcomes contributions  from the whole high-energy astrophysics
community.  Colleagues wishing to  attend the  5th IACHEC  meeting are
requested to fill the pre-registration form available from the meeting
web  page (http://web.mit.edu/iachec/meetings/index.html) by  the 10th
of March 2010.


Announcement of the 38th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Symposium E19
==================================================================

The Symposium E19 of the 38th Committee on Space Research (COSPAR)
Scientific Assembly:

"New Insights into  the Physics of Supernova Remnants and Pulsar Wind
Nebulae"

will be held from the 18th to the 25th of July, 2010 in Bremen, Germany.

As the most significant source of chemical enrichment and energy input
in the interstellar medium, supernova  remnants (SNRs) offer us a most
valuable laboratory  to study heavy  element nucleosynthesis, particle
acceleration at fast shocks, and the physics of the extreme associated
with neutron stars (NSs) and associated pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe).

The symposium will focus on the latest multi-wavelength studies, which
include X-ray  data from XMM-Newton, Chandra and  Suzaku, coupled with
theoretical modeling  and simulations and will address  the physics of
SNRs and their association and interaction with PWNe and NSs.

Deadline for abstract submission is 19th of February, 2010.

More information is available at:

http://www.physics.umanitoba.ca/~samar/COSPAR2010E19/


Workshop announcement: 460th WE-Heraeus Seminar: "Black Holes"
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The 460th Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Seminar: "Black Holes" will be held
from the 6th to the 11th of June, 2010 in Bad Honnef, Germany.

The  last decade  has witnessed  rapid progress  in  the astrophysical
study  of  black  holes.   Within  the next  ten  years,  ground-based
gravitational  wave detectors like  LIGO and  VIRGO will  begin making
regular  observations  of  merging  stellar-mass black  holes  out  to
redshifts  of ~0.3.  Future  space-based observatories  like IXO  will
measure X-rays  from the  first accreting massive  black holes  in the
Universe, while  LISA will detect gravitational  waves from coalescing
supermassive black hole binaries  throughout the Universe.  A key goal
of  this seminar is  to bring  together researchers  in the  fields of
gravitational  wave and  electromagnetic astronomy,  and to  provide a
forum for lively discussions,  with an emphasis on the electromagnetic
and gravitational wave signatures of strong gravity.

Deadline for registration is 10th of March, 2010.

More information is available at the workshop website at:

http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/~skomossa/Heraeus460/



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XMM-Newton SOC

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