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Report From The Project Scientist

Presentation for the XMM-Newton Users Group Meeting VI

19th / 20th May 2005

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Contents

• Items– Status of observing program – Questions from UG members to AO4:

• Time allocation (OTAC) and scheduling• XMM-Newton/VLT joint program (action from last UG meeting)• Large programs

– Status of AO5 preparations (OTAC)– Report on TOO/DDT observations

• Observed• Swift GRB• rejected

– Public Relations– Publications– The X-ray Universe 2005

• Mission Extension

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Status Of Observing Program

• Statistics up to REV 995 (18.5.2005)– Guaranteed Time Program finished– Open Time Program A1 finished– Open Time Program A2

• Number of allocated targets (A and B): 412• Allocated cumulative exposure time: 12801.3 ks• Number of successfully observed targets: 411 (99.8%)• Successfully observed cumulative exposure time: 12793.0 ks (99.9%)• Successfully observed cumulative exposure time (c): 1343.8 ks (12.7%)

– Open Time Program A3• Number of allocated targets (A and B): 613• Allocated cumulative exposure time: 19915.3 ks• Number of successfully observed targets: 592 (96.6%)• Successfully observed cumulative exposure time: 19153.2 ks (96.2%)• Successfully observed cumulative exposure time (c): 1210.9 ks ( 9.3%)

– Open Time Program A4• Number of allocated targets (A and B): 462• Allocated cumulative exposure time: 14695.6 ks• Number of successfully observed targets: 32 (6.9%)• Successfully observed cumulative exposure time: 1399.3 ks (9.5%)• Allocated cumulative exposure time (c): 4447.9 ks

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AO4 Time Allocation I

• OTAC tool (support for rating of proposals and rating in meeting) – Successful and in general positive response

• 4 panels had problems, but– 3 of them the tool was not correctly used, i.e. the panel

chairperson could finally use the tool (after meeting) – 1 of them one panel might has suffered connection problems

• 1 panel chairperson was not using the tool

• Majority of (rejected) proposals got comments:– 12 scientists expressed their unhappiness with the

decision or the comments – Complaint: 5 pages for large programs and 4 pages for

normal programs gives large programs an advantage (which becomes important if only a fraction of the time/targets from the large program is approved)

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Joint XMM-Newton/VLT

• Joint-Newton/VLT(I) programs– Simple exchange of up to 290 ks observing time – Both sides used about 33% of the available time on the other

facility • XMM-Newton allocated 97 ks at VLT• ESO allocated 100 ks at XMM-Newton

– Small number statistics:• Too early to make a real evaluation • PS recommended to continue with the joint program in AO5 without

changes– Accepted programs from XMM-Newton OTAC:

• 30554 Sciortino /A Very Deep XMM-Newton Study of the rho Oph Star Forming Region

• 30043 Ranalli / Gaseous abundances in NGC3256– Accepted programs from VLT TAC:

• D-0349 Schwope / Multiwavelength mapping of eclipsing polars with ULTRACAM and XMM-Newton

• C-0493 Dhillon / A search for optical pulsations in the Anomalous X-ray Pulsars 1E 1048.1-5937

• D-0770 Clarkson / Cir X-1

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AO4 Time Allocation II

• Large programs vs. “normal” programs – Not completely independent: each panel can allocate time for

a large program in the “normal” budget

• Over-subscription per scientific category (without time for large programs): – Time available per panel is proportional to requested time

• 18.0% of requested time could be allocated in A or B (17.36-18.22)• differences are due to rounding to the next 50 ks (-18 ks, +28 ks)

• Over-subscription of large programs:– Large programs / all programs: 19.1%– Large programs / all programs without triggered: 17.5%– Available for large programs: 15.0% of A/B time

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Large Programs

• Distribution with respect to visibility – statistics up to REV 972 (1.4.2005)

• Open Time Program A3– Number of outstanding targets: 42 (6.9%)– Cumulative exposure time of outstanding targets: 1581.6 ksec (8.0%)

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Large Programs

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Status Of AO-5 Preparations

• New OTAC chairperson: Brian McBreen (University College Dublin)

• Planned key milestones (public since 23rd of March, XMM-Newton News 48, on our web-pages): – Announcement: 5 September 2005– Due date for proposals: 14 October 2005 (12:00 UT)– final approved program: early January 2006– Phase 2 submission: 23 January - 17 February 2006– Start of observations: May 2006

• 6 Scientific categories / 13 Panels in total / 66 scientists– Panels: A:2, B: 2, C: 2, D: 2, E: 3, F 2 panels

• OTAC chairpersons are nominated / letters of D/SCI in work

• Panel member search underway

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TOO/DDT Observations

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TOO / (Swift) GRBsTOO / (Swift) GRBs• burst flux peak OT / z comments• [cnts] [cnts/sec] • 050505 7633 228 o z=4.3• 050504 Integral (R>21.0, bright source in FOV)• 050502B 6598 500 (R>21.8)• 050502 Integral o z=3.79• 050422 no BAT position (gal. lat = 2.58deg)• 050421 22529 379 R<22.0.• 050418 6973 533 (34 deg from the Sun)• 050416B 4483 134 (16.81 deg from Moon?)• 050416 2897 165 o• 050412 9336 329 dark (R <~22)• 050410 73810 1406 (R_c <~20.5)• 050408 no Swift burst o z= 1.24• 050406 9686 297 o (no opt. follow-up)• 050401 6309 170 o z=2.90• 050326 9418 18395 XMM=5800 cts[10h] (7 hours

delay, 20.3)• 050319 5336 263 o z=3.24• 050318 3359 205 o z=1.44• 050315 6165 260 o z=1.95• 050306 44610 665 o (V<21.2) • 050223 37391 726 XMM=1200cts[10h] (R<21.2)• 050219B 9044 409 o• 050219 4874 193 • 050215B 9702 300 o • 050215 35979 694 • 050202 1014 89 • N = 25 N(o)=12 / N(z) =7 (first short burst on 9.9.2005)

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TOO/DDT Rejected

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TOO/DDT Rejected II

• 13/05/2005 H. Boehringer XMMU J2235.3-2557

• 06/05/2005 J. Osborne GRB 050502b and GRB 050505

• 27/04/2005 S. Deluit NGC 2992

• 21/02/2005 J. M. Miller GRO J1655-40

• 25/01/2005 K. Dennerl Mars

• 01/11/2004 K. Dennerl Comet C/Machholz (2004 Q2)

• 11/08/2004 S. Molendi Perseus

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Public Relations / ESA Science News

• 2004 (1st January – 31st of December): 9 (+ 10 internal)

• 2005 (1st January – 11th of May): 6 (+ 2 internal)

• All are collected at :– http://xmm.vilspa.esa.es/external/xmm_news/latest_news.shtml

• In 2005 changes in public relations structure of ESA

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Publications

2004: 306 publications in refereed journals based on XMM-Newton observations

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The X-ray Universe 2005• Announcements:

– 28 Oct 2004: 1st – 14 Apr 2005: 2nd

• There are several other X-ray conferences (Dublin, Amsterdam, Cambridge, partly overlap with Munich)

• Registration + abstract submission ongoing: deadline end of May

• Poster printed and sent

• Invited talks:– SOC agreed on about 50%– Mike Watson and I are inviting the identified

scientists

• Written proceedings?

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Mission Extension

• Required:– highlight talk for AWG– written scientific case

• Support of UG Members required