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GSFC XMM-Newton GOF Status Report #287: XMM-NEWTON NEWS #172
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XMM-NEWTON NEWS #172 --- 28-Apr-2015
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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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SOC Home Page:
http://xmm.esac.esa.int/
Helpdesk Web interface:
http://xmm.esac.esa.int/external/xmm_user_support/helpdesk.shtml
Helpdesk email address:
xmmhelp@sciops.esa.int
News Mailing List:
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Contents:
- XSA v8.4 release with access to the 3XMM (DR5) and OM (SUSS2.1)
catalogues
* Release of the new version the XMM-Newton Serendipitous Source
Catalogue: 3XMM (DR5)
* Incremental version of the XMM-Newton OM Catalogue (XMM-SUSS2.1)
- Users Group meeting #16: Invitation from UG chair to contact them
- Second Announcement: "Exploring the Hot and Energetic Universe"
XSA v8.4 release with access to the 3XMM (DR5) and OM (SUSS2.1) catalogues
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A new version of the XMM-Newton Science Archive (XSA v8.4) is
available at
http://xmm.esac.esa.int/xsa
It includes, besides several improvements, access to the incremental
versions of the EPIC (3XMM-DR5) and OM (XMM-SUSS2.1) catalogues.
- Release of the new version of the XMM-Newton Serendipitous
Source Catalogue: 3XMM (DR5)
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A new version of the XMM-Newton EPIC Serendipitous Source Catalogue,
3XMM-DR5, has been released. The catalogue includes an extra year of
data with respect to 3XMM-DR4 and corrects minor issues that exist in
earlier catalogue versions.
The 3XMM-DR5 catalogue contains 565962 detections which relate to
396910 unique sources from 7781 observations that were public by the
31st December 2013. 3XMM-DR5 covers a total sky area, with at least 1
ks exposure, of ~877 square degrees if overlaps are taken into
account, where some regions of the sky have been pointed as many as 48
times. This represents an increase of approximately 7% in terms of
unique sources compared with 3XMM-DR4.
Around 10% of the detections are classified as extended, and spectra
and time series have been extracted for around 25% of the sources.
The positional uncertainty of the catalogue detections is generally
less than 3 arcseconds (90% confidence) and the astrometric quality of
3XMM is improved with respect to previous releases. Typical
sensitivities in the catalogue are ~6E-15 and ~1.5E-14 erg/cm2/s in
the soft (0.2-2 keV) and hard (2-12 keV) X-ray band, respectively.
The creation of the 3XMM catalogue is a joint venture carried out by
the XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre Consortium. The catalogue is
described in Rosen, Webb, Watson et al. 2015, (A&A, submitted, see
http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.07051). Details of the catalogue, the
catalogue files and full 3XMM documentation are available at
http://xmmssc.irap.omp.eu/Catalogue/3XMM-DR5/3XMM_DR5.html
FITS files containing summary information about the observations used
in the catalogue are also provided. FITS and CSV versions of the full
3XMM catalogue and a slimline version of the FITS file are also
available for download at
http://xmm.esac.esa.int/xsa/
The slimline version has only one row per unique source and a reduced
number of columns that essentially pertain to the unique source
quantities.
Alongside the XSA user interface at
http://nxsa.esac.esa.int/nxsa-web/#search
3XMM is also distributed through
XCATDB: http://xcatdb.unistra.fr/3xmmdr5
LEDAS: http://www.ledas.ac.uk
HEASARC: http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/xmm-newton/xmmssc.html
IRAP: http://xmm-catalog.irap.omp.eu/
- Incremental version of the XMM-Newton OM Catalogue (XMM-SUSS2.1)
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The OM Serendipitous Ultraviolet Source Survey Catalogue (XMM-SUSS)
has been updated with the inclusion of all observations obtained in
2013 (XMM-SUSS2.1). The new data have been processed with the same
SAS version as the already existing ones, namely SAS v14.
The observing period covered by the catalogue is now 2000-2013. The
total number of entries is 6.25 million. They correspond to more than
4 million sources, of which 19% have multiple entries, coming from
different observations. The number of observations included in the
catalogue is 7170.
The XMM-SUSS catalogue can be accessed through the XSA search
interface. Besides, either the complete catalogue or a reduced
version of it can be downloaded at
http://xmm.esac.esa.int/xsa/
Users Group meeting #16: Invitation from UG chair to contact them
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The XMM-Newton Users Group (UG) will be holding its yearly meeting
this coming May 21st and 22nd, at ESAC in Spain. This will be my first
meeting as Chair of the UG, having taken over from Xavier Barcons,
whom I would like to thank personally, and I believe also on behalf of
the wider community for all his efforts in support of the XMM-Newton
project, over the years.
The UG welcomes all comments and suggestions on any relevant aspect of
XMM-Newton operations and future direction. You may send these either
directly to me, or if you prefer to any member of the UG. So that we
will be able to collate your inputs for the meeting, I ask that you
e-mail them before Friday May 15th. Together with your support and
feedback, the UG will advise the project and help to ensure
continuation of XMM-Newton???s unique contribution to astrophysics.
Martin Ward, UG-Chair
The agenda for UG meeting #16 and contact information of the UG chair
and all the other UG members are available at
http://xmm.esac.esa.int/external/xmm_user_support/usersgroup/
Second Announcement: "Exploring the Hot and Energetic Universe"
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As announced in a previous issue of this Newsletter (#171), the
conference "Exploring the Hot and Energetic Universe: The first
scientific conference dedicated to the Athena X-ray observatory" will
take place from 8th to 10th September 2015 at ESAC, Madrid, Spain.
The Second Announcement inviting for contributed talks and posters is
available now, together with information on the draft programme and
accommodation, from the conference website at:
http://www.rssd.esa.int/index.php?project=CONF2015&page=ATHENA2015
Abstract submission is possible until Monday, 1st June 2015. The
Registration deadline is Friday, 21st August 2015.
Yours sincerely,
XMM-Newton SOC
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