1. XMM-Newton 1 Maria Santos-Lleo Science Operations Status EPIC Ops-Cal Meeting November 6, 2007, Mallorca María Santos-Lleó (XMM-Newton Science Support Manager)

2. XMM-Newton 2 Maria Santos-Lleo Contents  Science program: AO6 & AO7  Mission planning issues  Instrument operations  SAS: release 7.1  XSA: release 4.0 and 2XMM, next release  Users feedback: UG recommendations  Scientific highlights  Mission extension: AWG and SSAC recommendation  Symposium: The X-ray Universe 2008

3. XMM-Newton 3 Maria Santos-Lleo … and the Science Support Team  Community Support and Mission Planning Team Matthias Ehle  Instrument Dedicated Teams: ● EPIC: Marcus Kirsch ● RGS: Andy Polloc ● OM: Antonio Talavera  SAS Carlos Gabriel

4. XMM-Newton 4 Maria Santos-Lleo Science Program  AO6, May 2007 - April 2008: status as of 29 October: ● A+B performed: 7500 ks: 58% ● C: 93ks: 1% (27-31% in last two AOs)  AO7, May 2008 – April 2009 ● New: Very Large Programs (>1000 ks) 10 submitted with mean requested time 1980 ks Oversubscription 7.8 & 586 proposals ● OTAC currently underway: 13 panels, 66 scientists, rotate every 2 years chairperson 29-30 Nov at ESAC Results by Christmas (if approval from D/Sci) ● Second phase in January-February

5. XMM-Newton 5 Maria Santos-Lleo Mission Planning  Perth maintenance in October 2007:  Dongara used as replacement rev 1431-1445  Several problems (didn’t work as expected)  Heavy re-scheduling & several gaps  ~ 110h lost near apogee  Cal. RXJ1856.6-3754 42 ks lost in REV 1432

6. XMM-Newton 6 Maria Santos-Lleo Instrument Operations  RGS2 single node readout, since rev. 1408: 16 Aug 2007 ● Pile-up: if strong emission lines: higher than expected ● Radiation monitoring not possible with RGS2 (under investigation)  OM: review of slew constraints ● Possibility to reduce by 2 (current: Earth 10°, Moon 7°)  Slow Slew Survey ● Slowest slows 5°/h using close loop slews (20s+2-4° slews) ● Overhead (time between slews and RWB) under investigation  EPIC: action from UG: 2007-06-07/14: On the EPIC team to report on the impact of reducing the overhead for EPIC- pn thin, medium and thick filter exposures in modified mosaicing mode, by using a fixed offset table

7. XMM-Newton 7 Maria Santos-Lleo SAS & XSA  SAS 7.1 released in July 2007 ● Patch: eexpmap ● Patch to be released this week rgsframes (for single node) arfgen / backscale - support for masks - asked by users epreject upgrade some very minor fixes (test lines printouts suppression + inclusion of forgotten parameter change in rgsproc) ● Next release : ~ end spring 2008, with: epic_lccorr, rgs analysis using wavelength grid, and will be (most probably) based on gcc4 and include version for 64 bit machines.  XSA 4.0 released in August 2007 ● Full, uniform, reprocessing ● Science products ● 2XMM catalogue: 360 □ :247000 det., ~192000 unique ~ 6x10 -15 cgs in soft 0.2-2 keV (typical sensitivity) ~1.5x10 -14 cgs in hard 0.2-2 keV ● Slew Survey catalogue 1.1: 20% of sky, ~4300 sources ● Next release in ~ March 2008: dedicated to OM

8. XMM-Newton 8 Maria Santos-Lleo SAS 7.1  Main improvements in the area of source detection (2XMM Catalogue)  Other : ● EPIC PN temperature dependent gain correction introduced ● task (espfilt) for soft proton screening and filtering ● PN FIFO reset correction implemented ● master offset tables enabling correction of PN spatial energy shifts ● rgslccorr: RGS light curve background subtraction and exposure correction ● treatment of RGS single readout node data ● task (rgsfluxmodel) for exporting RGS flux spectrum as a model ● OM I/A photometry handling introduced (omphotom) ● improvement of OM grisms data processing task lccorr again removed from distribution due to several deficiencies  Slew Data Processing Software 2.1  Internal release of RISA (Remote Interface for Science Analysis)

9. XMM-Newton 9 Maria Santos-Lleo Users FeedbacK: UG recommendations  Recommendation 2007-06-08/39: The priority for timing modes of EPIC-pn needs to be focused on solving the current problems of the timing and burst calibration. Only after they are fixed, the UG would be glad to revise its recommendation about the modified timing. For the time being, the modified timing mode should only be made available on a case by case basis (Policies and Procedures updated for AO7)  Recommendation 2007-06-08/45: The UG recommends that the Background Working Group makes a study of the needs for closed filter data

10. XMM-Newton 10 Maria Santos-Lleo Scientific Highlights  `The Next Decade’ workshop ● Presentations on-line ● Papers received, review process started  Press releases: ● 19 so far in 2007 ● Good for PR and mission extension discussion Let us know about your results to make press releases !  Publications and citations keep on as expected ● About 300 papers per year

11. XMM-Newton 11 Maria Santos-Lleo Scientific Highlights: Public Outreach I

12. XMM-Newton 12 Maria Santos-Lleo Scientific Highlights: Public Outreach II  in 2007 so far 19 ESA science and technology news releases

13. XMM-Newton 13 Maria Santos-Lleo Mission Extension Both AWG and SSAC recommended XMM- Newton extension up to end 2012. Decision on the 13 th of November, SPC

14. XMM-Newton 14 Maria Santos-Lleo Next XMM-Newton Conference  The X-ray Universe 2008  Date and venue TBD by mid November ● Sevilla or Granada ● 26-31 May or 9-14 June  (UG: 7-8 May, 2008)

15. XMM-Newton 15 Maria Santos-Lleo …Thanks !