1. Ops. AGENDA Status of open Action Items Metcalfe Science Operations Status Metcalfe Instrument Operations Buenadicha EPIC Monitoring Stuhlinger/Smith 1 Science Operations & Data Systems Division Research & Scientific Support Department Page 1 XMM-Newton

2. Meeting/action Status SubjectActioneeDue EPIC TTD-0014/3 Open Explain increases in pn offset variance in the 840M. Smith2005-03-03 to 870 plus revolution range EPIC TTD-0014/5 OpenProvide an agenda draft for a hypothetical OBSW G. Buenadicha2005-03-03 contract meeting addressing all concerns raised during the presentation EPIC TTD-0014/9 Open Make MOS2 CCD5 effect public M. Stuhlinger 2005-03-03 EPIC TTD-0015/2 Open Identify what is needed for testing and preparing M. Casale 2005-11-03 for the use of redundancies EPIC TTD-0015/3 Open Subsequently to evaluate and decide which of the A. Abbey 2005-11-03 items resulting from action 15/2 can be delivered EPIC TTD-0016/1 Open Investigate the possibility of MOS small window A. Abbey 2006-05-29 mode in peripheral ccds M. Casale EPIC TTD-0016/2 Open Provide SOC with the sequence for MOS extended A. Abbey 2006-05-29 small window mode. 2 Science Operations & Data Systems Division Research & Scientific Support Department Page 2 XMM-Newton ACTIONS

3. SCIENCE OPERATIONS STATUS for EPIC TTD MEETING PALMA de MALLORCA 26 October 2006 L. Metcalfe SCI-SDX XMM-Newton Science Support Manager 3 Science Operations & Data Systems Division Research & Scientific Support Department Page 3 XMM-Newton

4. CONTENTS Significant meetings and dates Operations: Status & Modes General Calibration Points Data Processing - SSC Miscellaneous 4 Science Operations & Data Systems Division Research & Scientific Support Department Page 4 XMM-Newton

5. SIGNIFICANT MEETINGS AND DATES 5 Science Operations & Data Systems Division Research & Scientific Support Department Page 5 XMM-Newton

6. SIGNIFICANT MEETINGS Users Group Meeting #718/19May2006 SAS Workshop 2006 30 May-02Jun.2006 ICWG meeting, Iceland 14-16Jun.2006 Variable & Broad Fe Lines around Black Holes26-28Jun.2006 EPIC Background Working Group @ Palma 25Oct.2006 EPIC Cal./Ops. Meeting @ Palma de Mallorca26-27Oct.2006 SSC Consortium Meeting @ Potsdam13-15Nov.2006 (incl. SAS Wk. Group Meeting) OM Cal. & TTD meeting @ ESAC late 2006 EPIC Cal. Workshop @ ESAC 18-19Jan.2007 Inter-mission X-ray cross-calibration 08-11May2007 Intnl. Working Group on cross-cal. & the defn. of X-ray standards no.II. ESAC Science Workshop 2007: Legacy Science modes 04-06Jun.2007 Users Group meeting #8 07-08Jun.2007 SAS Workshop 2007 18-21Jun.2007

7. SIGNIFICANT DATES I Proceedings of 2005 conference (“The X-ray Universe 2005”) Distributed Mar.2006 Calibration Progress, especially with RGS (t dept.) vs EPIC, at UG#7May2006 EPIC Background Working Group toolsApr. & June2006 SAS SAS 7.0 release (+ RGS vs EPIC cal. Improvements) 30 June2006 to be used for the reprocessing 7 Science Operations & Data Systems Division Research & Scientific Support Department Page 7 XMM-Newton

8. SIGNIFICANT DATES II XSA XSA 2.9 Querying other ArchivesApr.2006 XSA 3.0 Release of the Slew Survey Catalogue03May2006 XSA 3.5 2XMM-beta 28Aug.2006 2XMM-beta Released by SSC 24 July2006 and through XSA 3.5 28Aug.2006 8 Science Operations & Data Systems Division Research & Scientific Support Department Page 8 XMM-Newton

9. SIGNIFICANT DATES III AO6 Call AO6 Call 28 Aug.2006 Closed Phase I 06 Oct.2006  595 valid proposals yielding an over-subscription of 6.91 Open phase II 15 Jan.2007 Close XRPS 09 Feb.2007 Begin AO6 observations May2007 9 Science Operations & Data Systems Division Research & Scientific Support Department Page 9 XMM-Newton

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11. STATUS and MODES  All instruments essentially stable  Slew Mode tests on rev.1242 (Sept.19-21) went well  essentially ready with EPIC (pn & MOS) and RGS instruments  but SOC systems need to handle slew scheduling less manually  also OM mode  RGS2 ADC-problem glitch  now better understood  see dedicated splinter on contingency preparation  Slewing / re-pointing ‘mode’ for RGS !  implementation requirements/plan by end-year ??

12. APOGEE GAP & SANTIAGO COVERAGE  Santiago provided coverage across Kourou-Perth gap allowed continuous coverage throughout complete revolution  Gap shrinking through years & closes by end 2007  By end 2006: the gap in telecommanding is as little as 35 minutes and telemetry gap totally disappeared  Decided to discontinue Santiago as of 1 Dec. 2006  Plot shows evolution of apogee gap from 2006 to 2010

13. 13 Science Operations & Data Systems Division Research & Scientific Support Department Page 13 XMM-Newton In the graph the TC gap on 01/12/2006 is ~1300 sec (22 min) to which a little margin (say 10 min) is added for acquisition of signal, carrier sweeping, etc.

14. APOGEE GAP & SANTIAGO COVERAGE In the 810 revs. from 450 to 1259 there were 5 cases of instrument closure due to soft protons (detected by the instruments themselves) at the time of the Santiago pass around apogee -/+ 2 h 1) Rev-614:instruments were closed for 35min 2) Rev-621:instruments were closed for 2 h 20min 3) Rev-628:instruments were closed for 20min 4) Rev-873:instruments were closed for 1 h 30min 5) Rev-1149:instruments were closed for 1 h 35min The probability of having an alert at that point in the revolution is, for the period considered, about 0.62 % (note also that three cases were very close together in rev-614 to 628 due to exceptionally high solar activity, so this could actually bias a bit the statistics and make it slightly worse). 14 Science Operations & Data Systems Division Research & Scientific Support Department Page 14 XMM-Newton

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24. CCF RELEASE NOTES IN PERIOD XMM-CCF-REL-220 RGS1 CCD9 node1 CTIX scale factor 11Aug2006 XMM-CCF-REL-218 RGS cool pixels 29Jun2006 XMM-CCF-REL-217 RGS background spectra templates 28Jun2006 XMM-CCF-REL-216 A new model for RGS effective area 29Jun2006 XMM-CCF-REL-215 RGS per.-CCD sens. 2&3 order gr.eff. 29Jun2006 XMM-CCF-REL-214 Revision of the RGS CCD gains 27Jun2006 XMM-CCF-REL-213 Evolution of the RGS CTI 29Jun2006 XMM-CCF-REL-212 Tuning RGS Instr. MgF2 abs. Mkn421 27Jun2006 XMM-CCF-REL-207 Update of EPIC MOS Gain 17May2006 XMM-CCF-REL-206 Update of EPIC MOS CTI 24May2006 XMM-CCF-REL-204 EPIC PN Bad Pixels 06Mar2006 XMM-CCF-REL-203 Long term EPIC-pn CTI refinement 05Apr2006

25. NRCOs 59 RGS long- response & MOS CTI with Vela 2006-01-25 48Refinement of pn-CTI corr. (follow-up NRCO 34)2005-02-25 51Establishing X-ray stdrds: RGS and RXJ 1856-37542005-04-20 54The RGS response to the Crab X-ray standard2005-08-23 55RGS CTI calibration 2005-09-01 56 Verification of the EPIC high energy resolution2005-11-11 57Investigation of the random EPIC-pn gain scatter2005-11-11 58Verification of the EPIC-pn relative timing2005-11-11 59RGS long- response & the MOS CTI with Vela2006-01-25 62EPIC-pn Burst mode energy calibration refinement 2006-05-17

26. DATA PROCESSING - SSC 26 Science Operations & Data Systems Division Research & Scientific Support Department Page 26 XMM-Newton

27. Science Operations & Data Systems Division Research & Scientific Support Department Page 27 XMM-Newton Turn-around time between data acquisition and GO (PIPE) delivery as of 31-March-2006

28. MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATIONS OTHER … 28 Science Operations & Data Systems Division Research & Scientific Support Department Page 28 XMM-Newton

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