EPIC TTD#14 SCIENCE OPERATIONS Mallorca, 01 February 2005 L. Metcalfe SCI-SDX

EPIC TTD#14

SCIENCE OPERATIONS

Mallorca, 01 February 2005

L. Metcalfe SCI-SDX

Science Support Manager

1Science Operations & Data Systems Division Research & Scientific Support Department

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XMM-NewtonXMM-Newton

Meeting/Action Description Actionee Due

EPIC TTD-0013/1 Make SDF available to interested people BA

EPIC-CAL-0011/5 Verify pn QE with the crab FH

EPIC-CAL-0012/4 Provide VILSPA with a tool to check MOS JB 2003-09-25

data for "3 missing raws" feature

EPIC-CAL-0012/5 Provide VILSPA with new sequences with TA 2003-09-25

old BS

EPIC-CAL-0013/1 Put new MOS redistribution into DT SS 2004-03-24

EPIC-CAL-0013/4 Change pn long term CTI in CCF MK 2004-03-24

EPIC-CAL-0013/5 Implement CTI tuning functionality for pn RS 2004-03-24

eFF in CAL

EPIC-CAL-0013/6 Update pn CTI CCF for eFF CTI tuning MK 2004-03-24

EPIC-CAL-0013/7 Enable the OAL the determine the PN RS 2004-03-24

offset maps (ODI)


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OPEN ACTIONS

CONTENTS

• Significant dates and meetings

• Operations

• General Calibration Points

• Data Processing - SAS

• Data Processing - SSC

• XSA

• Miscellaneous


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SIGNIFICANT DATES

AND

MEETINGS


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SIGNIFICANT DATES

AO4 Cycle:

• Call 30 Aug.2004

• Close Phase I 08 Oct.2004

• Open phase II for first PI group 10 Jan.2005

• Open phase II for second PI group 17 Jan.2005

• Close phase II for first PI group 21 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 XRPS 11 Feb.2005

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

SIGNIFICANT DATES (contd.)

• Users Group meeting #5 02/03 Jun. 2004

• XMM-Newton 5-years in flight 10 Dec. 2004

all Calls over-subscription by x7 or more

>700 refereed papers

• EPIC CAL/OPS meeting @ Mallorca 01-03 Feb. 2005

• Cross-calibration Workshop at ESAC 16-18 Mar. 2005

• EPIC Consortium Meeting @ Schloss Ringberg 10-13 Apr. 2005

• Users Group Meeting #6 19/20 May 2005

• The X-ray Universe 2005, El Escorial 26-30 Sep. 2005

• ADASS, El Escorial 03-07 Oct. 2005

NB: An annular eclipse of the Sun will take place at Madrid at the interface

between these last two conferences.

XMM-NEWTON USERS GROUP (19/20 May.2005)

AT THAT MEETING WE KNOW WE MUST SHOW :

decisive progress in the calibrationcook-book for doing science with EPIC at < 1 keVCross-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

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

OPERATIONS


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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

GENERAL CALIBRATION POINTS

• CCFs released

• NRCOs


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CCF RELEASE NOTES IN PERIOD

XMM-CCF-REL-166 EPIC MOS Metrology 13 May 2004

XMM-CCF-REL-167 PSF of the X-ray telescopes 19 May 2004

XMM-CCF-REL-168 EPIC absolute astrometry 21 May 2004

XMM-CCF-REL-169 EPIC MOS low energy response & QE 05 Aug 2004

XMM-CCF-REL-170 MOS Filter Transmission 14 Jun 2004

XMM-CCF-REL-171 RGS Instrumental Flourine Absorption 24 Jun 2004

XMM-CCF-REL-172 Improving pn Window mode CTI correction 19 Jul 2004

& refining long term CTI corr. all pn Modes

XMM-CCF-REL-173 RGS DARKFRAME normalisation 19 Jul 2004

XMM-CCF-REL-174 pn telescope effective area modification 09 Jun 2004

XMM-CCF-REL-175 EPIC PN Bad Pixels 05 Jul 2004

XMM-CCF-REL-176 RGS QE Shortest Corr. Factors 27 Jul 2004

XMM-CCF-REL-177 Low-E noise rejection refinement for pn 15 Sep 2004

XMM-CCF-REL-178 Masking MOS bright patches: MOS1 CCD4 14 Sep 2004

XMM-CCF-REL-179 RGS Background Spectral Templates 15 Oct 2004

XMM-CCF-REL-180 EPIC PN masked mode parameters 15 Oct 2004

XMM-CCF-REL-181 EPIC MOS fixed offset 29 Oct 2004

XMM-CCF-REL-182 Ecorr for Extended Full Frame mode 12 Nov 2004

XMM-CCF-REL-183 EPIC-pn spectral response 11 Nov 2004

XMM-CCF-REL-184 EPIC MOS response 10 Dec 2004

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

DATA PROCESSING - SAS


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SAS

Version 6.0.0 of the Science Analysis System (SAS) released March ‘04

4th VILSPA SAS Workshop June 8 to 11 ‘04

Version 6.1.0 of the Science Analysis System (SAS) released 01 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

DATA PROCESSING - SSC


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STATUS OF DATA GENERATION

Routine Phase statistics:

As of mid-January 2005 …

Scheduled (revs 103-926)

4013

Performed

3834

ODFs produced 3759

PPS products 3634


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Turn-around time between data acquisition and data notification to GO (PIPE) as of 31-Dec-2003


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XSA


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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

MISCELLANEOUS

PUBLICATIONS

OTHER (RGS ADC …)


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