XMM EPIC MOS Steve Sembay EPIC Calibration Meeting Tuebingen 03/02/03-06/02/03 MOS Cooling Results and Current Response Both MOS Cameras cooled to -120C from -100C Rev

XMM EPIC MOS Steve Sembay EPIC Calibration Meeting Tuebingen 03/02/03-06/02/03 Parallel CTI at Mn and Al for Central CCDs, MOS1 and MOS2 Plots by Bruno Altieri

XMM EPIC MOS Steve Sembay EPIC Calibration Meeting Tuebingen 03/02/03-06/02/03 Parallel CTI at Al, MOS1Serial CTI at Al, MOS1 Plots by Bruno Altieri

XMM EPIC MOS Steve Sembay EPIC Calibration Meeting Tuebingen 03/02/03-06/02/03 Parallel CTI at Al, MOS2Serial CTI at Al, MOS2 Plots by Bruno Altieri

XMM EPIC MOS Steve Sembay EPIC Calibration Meeting Tuebingen 03/02/03-06/02/03 Measured Resolution at Al, MOS1, CCD1

XMM EPIC MOS Steve Sembay EPIC Calibration Meeting Tuebingen 03/02/03-06/02/03 Measured Resolution at Al, MOS2, CCD1

XMM EPIC MOS Steve Sembay EPIC Calibration Meeting Tuebingen 03/02/03-06/02/03 Measured Resolution at Mn-Kalpha, MOS1/2, CCD1

XMM EPIC MOS Steve Sembay EPIC Calibration Meeting Tuebingen 03/02/03-06/02/03 Isolated Neutron Star RX J used for contamination monitoring No evidence for contamination … similar for MOS2

XMM EPIC MOS Steve Sembay EPIC Calibration Meeting Tuebingen 03/02/03-06/02/03 Vela pre- and post-cooling. No evidence for contamination

XMM EPIC MOS Steve Sembay EPIC Calibration Meeting Tuebingen 03/02/03-06/02/03 Gain stability test on SNR 1E Ne IX 247: (0.002) 375: (0.002) 552: (0.003) Mg XI 247: (0.002) 375: (0.002) 552: (0.004)

XMM EPIC MOS Steve Sembay EPIC Calibration Meeting Tuebingen 03/02/03-06/02/03 Low Energy Epoch Dependent Response Variation

XMM EPIC MOS Steve Sembay EPIC Calibration Meeting Tuebingen 03/02/03-06/02/03 Fit to MOS1/MOS2 spectra of Mrk 421 (Rev 165), using SAS 5.3

XMM EPIC MOS Steve Sembay EPIC Calibration Meeting Tuebingen 03/02/03-06/02/03 Same as previous, but with data and model extrapolated down to 100 eV

XMM EPIC MOS Steve Sembay EPIC Calibration Meeting Tuebingen 03/02/03-06/02/03 Fit to MOS1/MOS2 spectra of PKS (Rev 450) using SAS 5.3

XMM EPIC MOS Steve Sembay EPIC Calibration Meeting Tuebingen 03/02/03-06/02/03 Same as previous, but with data and model extrapolated down to 100 eV Low energy excess indicating response change ?

XMM EPIC MOS Steve Sembay EPIC Calibration Meeting Tuebingen 03/02/03-06/02/03 Contribution to flux at 150 eV versus incident energy for each spectrum

XMM EPIC MOS Steve Sembay EPIC Calibration Meeting Tuebingen 03/02/03-06/02/03 Significant change in spectrum between Rev 78 and 533/534

XMM EPIC MOS Steve Sembay EPIC Calibration Meeting Tuebingen 03/02/03-06/02/03 Significant change in spectrum between Rev 78 and 533/534

XMM EPIC MOS Steve Sembay EPIC Calibration Meeting Tuebingen 03/02/03-06/02/03 Comparison of Current Response fitted to Rev 78 data and Test Response Fitted to Rev 533 and Rev 534 N H = 1.39(0.5)E20 cm -2 BB = 82.4(1.5) eV

XMM EPIC MOS Steve Sembay EPIC Calibration Meeting Tuebingen 03/02/03-06/02/03 Current and Test Redistribution at incident E = 250, 300, 350 and 400 eV

XMM EPIC MOS Steve Sembay EPIC Calibration Meeting Tuebingen 03/02/03-06/02/03 Comparison of spectra extracted from Radii, 0-45, 5-45 and arcsec

XMM EPIC MOS Steve Sembay EPIC Calibration Meeting Tuebingen 03/02/03-06/02/03 How does Test Response work with other sources ? Not very well ! Two observations from Rev 450 and 552 Power-Law fit with N H = 1.36E20 cm -2

XMM EPIC MOS Steve Sembay EPIC Calibration Meeting Tuebingen 03/02/03-06/02/03 Comparison with Current Response

XMM EPIC MOS Steve Sembay EPIC Calibration Meeting Tuebingen 03/02/03-06/02/03 Quality of fit across main edges from 1 to 3 keV 5-10% Residual at 2.5 keV

XMM EPIC MOS Steve Sembay EPIC Calibration Meeting Tuebingen 03/02/03-06/02/03 N132D … Evidence for flux/response change below 500 eV Plot by Marcus Kirsch

XMM EPIC MOS Steve Sembay EPIC Calibration Meeting Tuebingen 03/02/03-06/02/03 Epoch/Flux dependency exhibited by 3C 273