1. EPIC TTD#16 SCIENCE OPERATIONS MPE, 04 May 2006 L. Metcalfe SCI-SDX XMM-Newton Science Support Manager 1 Science Operations & Data Systems Division Research & Scientific Support Department Page 1 XMM-Newton

2. OPS: EPIC-TTD- 14/3Explain increases in pn offset variance in the 840 to M. Smith2005-03-03 870 plus revolution range. 14/5Provide an agenda draft for a hypothetical OBSW G. Buenadicha2005-03-03 contract meeting addressing all concerns raised during the presentation. 14/9Make MOS2 CCD5 effect public.M. Stuhlinger 2005-03-03 15/1Implement activation of MOS1 CCD6 every three S. Rives2005-11-03 months (by performing e.g. a diagnostic) to check any changes in its condition. 15/2Identify what is needed for testing and preparing for M. Casale 2005-11-03 the use of redundancies. 15/3 Subsequently to evaluate and decide which of the A. Abbey 200?-??-?? items resulting from action 15/2 can be delivered. 2 Science Operations & Data Systems Division Research & Scientific Support Department Page 2 XMM-Newton OPEN ACTIONS - EPIC TTD

3. CAL: EPIC-CAL- 12-4JB to provide VILSPA with a tool to check MOS data Ballet2003-09-25 for "3 missing raws" feature. 14-1Additional time column with other 0 point for ODFKirsch2005-02-28 14-2 MK to update frame times according to analysisKirsch2005-02-28 presented in 1.1 14-3MK to implement time jump in a Q-check type Kirsch2005-02-28 procedure in the long term. 14-5MS to implement KDs values into CCFStuhlinger2005-02-28 15/1Provide update of MOS drm parameter files (SS) Kirsch2005-10-19 15/2 Provide eff mode CTI degradation parameters to SOCDennerl 2005-10-19 15/3Implement mode-dept. pn CTI-degradation in SASKirsch/Saxton2005-10-19 15/4 NRCO on Eta Carinae in SW and FF mode, obs. time Kirsch2005-10-19 like rev 115. Ask for Chandra Cross (HETG) Stuhlinger 3 Science Operations & Data Systems Division Research & Scientific Support Department Page 3 XMM-Newton OPEN ACTIONS - EPIC CAL

4. CAL: EPIC-CAL- 15/5MOS-CTI update, to sort out responsibility Kirsch/Sembay2005-10-19 15/6Update MOS CTI CCFs DB/MSt2005-10-19 15/7Provide input for column region dept. CTIBaskill2005-10-19 15/8Implement column region dept. CTI into SAS Saxton/Kirsch2005-10-19 15/9NRCO for Pulsar timing PSRB0540 PSRB1509 checks MK/MSt/ME2005-10-19 simultaneous with RXTE and radio 15/100.75sec star tracker delay to get into system Kirsch/Saxton2005-10-19 15/11Track implementation of "switch all 1 CCD slews for Smith2005-10-19 pn to CLOSED' Specify implementation by end Oct. 15/12Describe feature of off axis badpixfind behaviour MSt, WNP2005-10-19 for pn at (TBD) appropriate place 15/13Get in contact with Suzaku for RXJ1856 X-Cal.MSt2005-10-19 4 Science Operations & Data Systems Division Research & Scientific Support Department Page 4 XMM-Newton OPEN ACTIONS - EPIC CAL

5. CONTENTS Personnel changes at SOC Significant dates and meetings Operations General Calibration Points Data Processing - SAS Data Processing - SSC XSA Miscellaneous 5 Science Operations & Data Systems Division Research & Scientific Support Department Page 5 XMM-Newton

6. PERSONNEL CHANGES AT SOC  Arvind Parmar has replaced Fred as Mission Manager  Stephane (at his final TTD Meeting) will hand over his functions to Guillermo & Neil (Cheek).

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8. SIGNIFICANT DATES Users Group Meeting #7 18/19May2006 SAS Workshop 30 May-02 Jun.2006 ICWG meeting, Iceland 14-16Jun.2006 Variable & Broad Fe Lines around Black Holes 26-28Jun.2006 AO6 Call AO6 Call 28 Aug.2006 Close Phase I 06 Oct.2006 Open phase II 15 Jan.2007 Close XRPS 09 Feb.2007 Begin AO6 observations May2007

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10. OPERATIONS  All instruments essentially stable  MSG LEOP took out Revs. 1105 to 1110  Rev.1147 HotBird and SpainSat support  We’re probably due another (micro-)meteoroid !!

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19. GENERAL CALIBRATION POINTS A few remarks approaching UG#7 CCFs released since previous TTD NRCOs in period 19 Science Operations & Data Systems Division Research & Scientific Support Department Page 19 XMM-Newton

20. 3C273 (1) SASv6.1  Rev. 0094  Medium filter  All EPICs in SW modes

21. 3C273 (2)  Rev. 0277  Medium filter  All EPICs in SW modes SASv6.1

22. Corrected-RGS comparison with EPIC : PKS2155-304

23. Corrected-RGS comparison with EPIC : 3C273 RGS response to Stuhlinger et al. XCal document spectrum without adjustment

24. CCF RELEASE NOTES IN PERIOD XMM-CCF-REL-204 EPIC PN Bad Pixels 06Mar2006 XMM-CCF-REL-202 EPIC MOS Response 22Nov2005 XMM-CCF-REL-200 Update of EPIC MOS gain 21Oct2005 XMM-CCF-REL-199 OM Grisms Calibration: Update 19Oct2005 XMM-CCF-REL-198 PN Spatial Gain 14Oct2005

25. NRCOs 54 The RGS response to the Crab X-ray standard 2005-08-23 55 The RGS CTI calibration 2005-09-01 56 Verification of the EPIC high energy resolution 2005-11-11 57 Investigation of random EPIC-pn gain scatter 2005-11-11 58 Verification of the EPIC-pn relative timing 2005-11-11 59 RGS long- response & MOS CTI with Vela 2006-01-25 60 Verification before MOS1 medium filter check 2006-03-16 61 Calibrating the SWCX contamination 2006-03-30 SWCX  Solar Wind Charge eXchange emission

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27. SAS  7 th. SAS Workshop @ESAC May 30 to June 2, 2006  Debugging reprocessing pipeline at SSC continues  2XMM  Release of SAS 7 June(ish)  Slew catalogue released in XSA yesterday  OM filter response matrices created

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29. 29 Science Operations & Data Systems Division Research & Scientific Support Department Page 29 XMM-Newton Turn-around time between data acquisition and GO (PIPE) delivery as of 31-March-2006

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31. Recent XSA versions XSA v2.9 (March 2006) Simple access to external archival facilities XSA v3.0 (May 2006) EPIC Sources Slew Catalogue

32. Simple access to external archives

33. Slew Catalogue Access Query panel Results DSS Soft band Hard band X-rays

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