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XMM-NEWTON NEWS #211 --- 22-Jun-2018
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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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Contents:
- Version 17.0 of the Science Analysis System (SAS) released
- Data Analysis Threads for SAS v17.0
- ESA Research Fellowship in Space Science at ESAC
- The Hunt for Galaxy Clusters:
A Citizen Science Project using XMM-Newton Data
Version 17.0 of the Science Analysis System (SAS) released
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The XMM-Newton SAS team is pleased to announce the release of a new
version of the SAS: SAS v17.0.
Binaries for diverse flavours of Linux and Mac OS X are available at
http://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/sas-download
The main improvements of this release can be summarised as follows:
- New in this release is the Graphical User Interface (GUI) for
"xmmextractor". This task should be considered as experimental and
user feedback is very welcome.
- The energy of the events recorded by the EPIC-pn camera has been shown
to be dependent on the recent background level experienced in the
camera. Tasks within the "epchain" and "epproc" processes have been
adapted to make this correction. At the time of release the
correction has not been fully calibrated and the event energies will
be identical to those produced with SAS v16.1.0. A new calibration
file will be released shortly to activate this correction.
- The calculation of the size of the source extraction region for
Timing/Burst mode data has been made more accurate in the "backscale"
and "arfgen" tasks.
- The task "arfgen" has been generalised to allow a detector or sky
coordinate image from any EPIC camera to be used to correct for bad
pixels and chip gaps.
- EPIC data taken in RGS multi-pointing mode now has the correct
coordinate conversions applied when using "arfgen" with the
"useodfatt=yes" option.
- Various updates have been made to "esas", including making the source
masks produced by the task "cheese" proportional in size to the source
strength.
This version of SAS is released in two 64-bit binary versions for Linux
(RHEL 6.8 and Ubuntu 16), and one for Mac OS X (Sierra). The versions
released have been tested to run correctly on several other platforms
including CentOs 7.3, El Capitan and High Sierra. Libraries are provided
where necessary together with the distribution.
Data Analysis Threads for SAS v17.0
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SAS analysis threads have been revised to ensure compatibility with the
recently released SAS v17.0. A new thread dealing with the extraction of
EPIC spectra for observations taken in RGS Multi-pointing Mode has been
added.
SAS Threads are available at
http://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/sas-threads
ESA Research Fellowships in Space Science at ESAC
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Postdoctoral fellowships in the area of Astronomy and Astrophysics
related to the X-ray observatory XMM-Newton are tenable at the
XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre in the European Space Astronomy
Centre (ESAC) located in Villafranca del Castillo, near Madrid, Spain.
The deadline for applications is
1st October 2018
The European Space Agency awards several postdoctoral fellowships each
year. The aim of these fellowships is to provide young scientists,
holding a PhD or the equivalent degree, with the means of performing
space science research in fields related to the ESA Science Programme.
The fellowships have a duration of two years, with a possible third year
extension.
Applications are now solicited for fellowships to begin in autumn 2019.
Preference will be given to applications submitted by candidates in an
early stage of their career. Candidates not holding a PhD yet are
encouraged to apply, but they must provide evidence of receiving their
degree before starting the fellowship.
Working at ESAC within the XMM-Newton team gives the unique opportunity
of being in contact with the calibration scientists, the developers of
the analysis software and the User Support Group.
Research opportunities with XMM-Newton science staff include, among
other, studies of the high energy emission of novae, galaxies, and AGN
using XMM-Newton datal, see e.g.
https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/esac-science-faculty/groups-agn, and
https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/esac-science-faculty/accretion-group.
Please contact Norbert Schartel (Norbert.Schartel_at_sciops.esa.int) for
more details on ESA Research Fellowships related to XMM-Newton.
More information on the ESA Research Fellowship programme in Space
Science, on the conditions and eligibility, as well as the application
form can be retrieved from
http://cosmos.esa.int/fellowship
The Hunt for Galaxy Clusters:
A Citizen Science Project using XMM-Newton Data
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We would like to bring your attention "The Hunt for Galaxy Clusters", a
citizen science project on the Zooniverse platform.
The goal of the project is to obtain labeled data to train neural
networks for the automated search of galaxy clusters in the XMM-Newton
archival database. Volunteers to participate in this project are
welcome.
More details at "The Hunt for Galaxy Clusters" website
https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/matej-dot-kosiba/the-hunt-for-galaxy-clusters
Yours sincerely,
XMM-Newton SOC
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