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XMM-NEWTON NEWS #193 --- 9-Feb-2017
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XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre at
ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre,
Villanueva de la Canada, Madrid, Spain
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SOC Home Page:
http://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton
Helpdesk Web interface:
http://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/xmm-newton-helpdesk
Helpdesk email address:
xmmhelp@sciops.esa.int
News Mailing List:
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Contents:
- Letter of Intent for Multi-Year Heritage Programmes
- Update of the EPIC and RGS Calibration Status Documents
- New version of the Pipeline Processing System (PPS)
- Scientific Validation Report for SAS v16.0
- Let us know about XMM-Newton related Ph.D.
Letter of Intent for Multi-Year Heritage Programmes
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Following recommendation 2016-06-08/04 of the XMM-Newton Users' Group,
in the next call for proposals (the 17th Announcement of Opportunity) a
"Multi-Year Heritage Programme" will be established. This programme
seeks scientific visionary projects which require at least 2 Ms of
observing time. A total of 6 Ms of observing time, spread over three
years, is planned to be made available for this programme.
In order to organise the evaluation and allocation of "Multi-Year
Heritage Programme" projects, interested scientists are strongly urged
to send an email with a letter of intent to the XMM-Newton Project
Scientist (Norbert.Schartel_at_esa.int) before 31 March 2017. The letter
should contain a draft title, a short (up to three sentences)
description of the respective scientific area and an estimate of the
required observing time.
The minutes of the last XMM-Newton Users' Group meeting are available at
https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/users-group
Update of the EPIC and RGS Calibration Status Documents
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New versions of the documents describing the status of the calibration
and specific data analysis for EPIC and RGS have been released.
These documents are available from the XMM-Newton Calibration Portal
http://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/calibration
New version of the Pipeline Processing System (PPS)
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A new version of the Pipeline Processing System (PPS)
http://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/pipeline
was released on January 31st. This pipeline version has been migrated to
be based on SAS version 16.0, released earlier in January 2017, hence
allowing pipeline products to remain up-to-date with the last
calibration and data reduction techniques.
The main novelties of the new PPS are changes aimed at increasing the
legacy value of the products. Source detection algorithms to slew data
are now applied. Solar System objects are processed such that generated
X-ray images and spectra are referred to the moving target frame of
reference. The method applied to define the background region for source
products from MOS data has been updated in line with the method
established for pn in the previous PPS version. Also, some new products
are delivered to ease quick inspection of the data.
A detailed description as well as a summary of the changes with respect
to the previous pipeline can be found in the release notes at
https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/pipeline-configurations
Scientific Validation Report for SAS v16.0
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The results of the scientific validation of the XMM-Newton Science
Analysis System (SAS) v16.0 have been summarised in a report available
under the SAS Scientific Validation page
http://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/sas-validation
Let us know about XMM-Newton related Ph.D.
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As announced in previous Newsletters (see e.g. issue #183), the
XMM-Newton team is collecting information about the completion of
doctorates and Ph.D. theses based on (or making use of) XMM-Newton
observations.
We would appreciate if you - being a candidate or a supervisor of a
doctorate - could let us know details through the page
http://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/phd-theses
Also we would be grateful if you could inform us (via a message to
xmmhelp@sciops.esa.int, with subject "Ph.D. thesis work") in case you
are aware of theses from, or supervised by, colleagues that make use of
XMM-Newton data but are not yet included in the above list.
Yours sincerely,
XMM-Newton SOC
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