1. EPIC TTD#14 SCIENCE OPERATIONS Mallorca, 01 February 2005 L. Metcalfe SCI-SDX Science Support Manager 1 Science Operations & Data Systems Division Research & Scientific Support Department Page 1 XMM-Newton

2. Meeting/Action Description ActioneeDue EPIC TTD-0013/1 Make SDF available to interested peopleBA EPIC-CAL-0011/5 Verify pn QE with the crabFH EPIC-CAL-0012/4 Provide VILSPA with a tool to check MOS JB2003-09-25 data for "3 missing raws" feature EPIC-CAL-0012/5Provide VILSPA with new sequences withTA2003-09-25 old BS EPIC-CAL-0013/1Put new MOS redistribution into DT SS2004-03-24 EPIC-CAL-0013/4Change pn long term CTI in CCF MK2004-03-24 EPIC-CAL-0013/5Implement CTI tuning functionality for pn RS2004-03-24 eFF in CAL EPIC-CAL-0013/6Update pn CTI CCF for eFF CTI tuningMK2004-03-24 EPIC-CAL-0013/7Enable the OAL the determine the PNRS2004-03-24 offset maps (ODI) 2 Science Operations & Data Systems Division Research & Scientific Support Department Page 2 XMM-Newton OPEN ACTIONS

3. CONTENTS Significant dates and meetings Operations General Calibration Points Data Processing - SAS Data Processing - SSC XSA Miscellaneous 3 Science Operations & Data Systems Division Research & Scientific Support Department Page 3 XMM-Newton

4. SIGNIFICANT DATES AND MEETINGS 4 Science Operations & Data Systems Division Research & Scientific Support Department Page 4 XMM-Newton

5. SIGNIFICANT DATES AO4 Cycle: Call30 Aug.2004 Close Phase I08 Oct.2004 Open phase II for first PI group10 Jan.2005 Open phase II for second PI group 17 Jan.2005 Close phase II for first PI group21 Jan.2005 Open phase II for third PI group 24 Jan.2005 Planned maintenance (07:30z to 11:30z) 25 Jan.2005 Close phase II for second PI group 28 Jan.2005 Close phase II for third PI group 04 Feb.2005 Close XRPS11 Feb.2005

6. AO4  closed on the 8th of October 2004  657 valid proposals requesting, in total, 101747 ksec  AO4 covers one year with 14500 ksec observing time available ==>  over-subscription factor is 7.0  484 PIs from 23 countries, mostly ESA member states, USA & Japan  n-countries increases to 35 if co-investigators are considered  about 1600 individual scientists involved

7. SIGNIFICANT DATES (contd.) Users Group meeting #502/03Jun.2004 XMM-Newton 5-years in flight10 Dec.2004  all Calls over-subscription by x7 or more  >700 refereed papers EPIC CAL/OPS meeting @ Mallorca01-03Feb.2005 Cross-calibration Workshop at ESAC 16-18Mar.2005 EPIC Consortium Meeting @ Schloss Ringberg10-13Apr.2005 Users Group Meeting #619/20May2005 The X-ray Universe 2005, El Escorial 26-30Sep.2005 ADASS, El Escorial 03-07Oct.2005 NB: An annular eclipse of the Sun will take place at Madrid at the interface between these last two conferences.

8. XMM-NEWTON USERS GROUP (19/20 May.2005) AT THAT MEETING WE KNOW WE MUST SHOW :  decisive progress in the calibration  cook-book for doing science with EPIC at < 1 keV  Cross-calibration status document OTHER ITEMS DEMANDED BY UG :  get RGS background accumulator into SAS 6.1 - done  pursue 2005 Conference - done  report on slew survey at next UG meeting - in progress  get RGS Superfluxer into SAS 7.0 - in progress  pursue EPIC background modeling as next priority

9. Conference 2005 - Aims and Scope The XMM-Newton and Chandra space observatories have operated for half a decade & continue to provide superb data which is changing our view of almost every aspect of the Universe at high E. In the near future AstroE-2 will provide enhanced capabilities for high res. spectroscopy, & Swift will soon join HETE-2 in making detailed studies of gamma-ray bursts. Significant new insights are also emerging from Integral's view of the sky at hard X-ray & gamma-ray energies. "The X-ray Universe 2005" symposium will showcase the results and discoveries from current and near-future missions and provide a forum for the discussion of astrophysical themes with a high-energy connection. Scheduled to last for 5 days & embrace the wide range of astrophysics in which XMM-Newton, Chandra & other missions are making important advances. Session topics will include: * stars, stellar systems, planetary & cometary studies * interacting binary systems, SNR, pulsars * the ISM and diffuse Galactic emission * AGN, galaxies, clusters of galaxies * surveys, population studies and the cosmic X-ray background * gamma-ray bursts

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19. OPERATIONS  SUPPORT TO OTHER MISSIONS (LEOPs etc.) ROSETTA EUTELSAT W3A SCOS 2000 tests on Rev.900, Rev.935, Rev.940 (all modes)  MAJOR SOLAR FLARE IN THE PAST WEEK in last hours of Rev.936 normal operations resumed on rev.939 instruments mostly in safe mode any impacts TBD

20. GENERAL CALIBRATION POINTS CCFs released NRCOs 20 Science Operations & Data Systems Division Research & Scientific Support Department Page 20 XMM-Newton

21. CCF RELEASE NOTES IN PERIOD XMM-CCF-REL-166 EPIC MOS Metrology 13May2004 XMM-CCF-REL-167 PSF of the X-ray telescopes 19May2004 XMM-CCF-REL-168 EPIC absolute astrometry 21May2004 XMM-CCF-REL-169 EPIC MOS low energy response & QE05Aug2004 XMM-CCF-REL-170 MOS Filter Transmission14Jun2004 XMM-CCF-REL-171 RGS Instrumental Flourine Absorption24Jun2004 XMM-CCF-REL-172 Improving pn Window mode CTI correction 19Jul2004 & refining long term CTI corr. all pn Modes XMM-CCF-REL-173 RGS DARKFRAME normalisation 19Jul2004 XMM-CCF-REL-174 pn telescope effective area modification 09Jun2004 XMM-CCF-REL-175 EPIC PN Bad Pixels05Jul2004 XMM-CCF-REL-176 RGS QE Shortest Corr. Factors27Jul2004 XMM-CCF-REL-177 Low-E noise rejection refinement for pn15Sep2004 XMM-CCF-REL-178 Masking MOS bright patches: MOS1 CCD4 14Sep2004 XMM-CCF-REL-179 RGS Background Spectral Templates 15Oct2004 XMM-CCF-REL-180 EPIC PN masked mode parameters15Oct2004 XMM-CCF-REL-181 EPIC MOS fixed offset29Oct2004 XMM-CCF-REL-182 Ecorr for Extended Full Frame mode12Nov2004 XMM-CCF-REL-183 EPIC-pn spectral response11Nov2004 XMM-CCF-REL-184 EPIC MOS response10Dec2004

22. NRCOs 34 Refinement of pn-CTI correction 35 EPIC soft-energy X-cal. on GD 153 Uncommissioned 36 XMM-Newton cross-calibration on H1426+428 37 Use of a single RGS2 ADC Uncommissioned 38 4 pointing raster on 1ES0102 39 The absolute Flux calibration of OM 40 The OM UV red leaks 41 Sanity check of MOS filters Uncommissioned 42 HZ 43 XMM/Swift cross-calibration 43 H1426+428 XMM/Swift cross-calibration 44 Rejected: PKS0537-286 XMM/Swift cross-calibration 45 HZ 43 XMM/Swift cross-calibration

23. DATA PROCESSING - SAS 23 Science Operations & Data Systems Division Research & Scientific Support Department Page 23 XMM-Newton

24. SAS  Version 6.0.0 of the Science Analysis System (SAS) releasedMarch ‘04  4th VILSPA SAS Workshop June 8 to 11 ‘04  Version 6.1.0 of the Science Analysis System (SAS) released01 Dec.’04  RGS background modelling capability  an upgrade of the OM grism data analysis  new, experimental, treatment of Time Correlation  Next public release will be when we gain confidence with the SAS version currently under test for the bulk-reprocessing

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26. STATUS OF DATA GENERATION Routine Phase statistics: As of mid-January 2005 … Scheduled (revs 103-926)4013 Performed3834 ODFs produced3759 PPS products3634 26 Science Operations & Data Systems Division Research & Scientific Support Department Page 26 XMM-Newton

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30. XSA Data processing facilities in the XMM-Newton Science Archive (XSA) XSA v2.7 released November 2004 full suite of data proc. facilities can be triggered from XSA user interface  latest public SAS reprocessing of raw telemetry (ODF) for all XMM-Newton cameras through meta-tasks ("emproc", "epproc", "rgsproc", "omichain", "omfchain")  ftp retrieval of products  filtering of EPIC calibrated and concatenated event lists prior to retrieval  interactive extraction of spectra and light curves from sky regions in EPIC exposure images in the XSA FITS viewer tool  response matrices generated, & spectral products.  users can now monitor download or processing status through "Request Monitor" tool

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