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GSFC XMM-Newton GOF Status Report #030: XMM-NEWTON NEWS #4
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ESA, XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre at
Villafranca del Castillo, Satellite Tracking Station
P.O. Box - Apdo. 50727, 28080 Madrid, Spain
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SOC Home Page: http://xmm.vilspa.esa.es/
Helpdesk web interface: http://xmm.vilspa.esa.es/xmmhelp
Helpdesk email address: xmmhelp@xmm.vilspa.esa.es
News Mailing List: http://xmm.vilspa.esa.es/mailman/listinfo/xmm-news
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Contents:
- Tell us about your XMM-Newton publications and PR activities
- Clarification: Naming conventions for sources found by
individual researchers
- Target of Opportunity Notification Page
- SAS status & RGS calibration problem
- CD ROM production
- XMM-Newton Science Archive (XSA)
Dear Colleagues,
Tell us about your XMM-Newton publications and PR activities
============================================================
We encourage the community to inform the XMM-Newton Helpdesk
(email: xmmhelp@xmm.vilspa.esa.es) about all the papers publishing XMM-Newton
data. This will allow us to link the observations in the XMM-Newton
Science Archive with the related publications.
Please, be reminded that all publications which make use of XMM-Newton data
must include the following acknowledgment:
"This work is based on observations obtained with XMM-Newton, an ESA science
mission with instruments and contributions directly funded by ESA Member
States and the USA (NASA)."
In addition, the Project Scientist would appreciate to be informed via email
(fjansen@astro.estec.esa.nl) about all planned press releases and other public
relation activities which are related to XMM-Newton.
We thank you very much in advance for your attention and help on this subject.
Clarification: Naming conventions for sources found by individual researchers
=============================================================================
It has been spotted by the the IAU "Clearing House" of Commission 5 Working
Group on Designations that there is a modification needed in the proposed
naming convention for the XMM-Newton sources detected by individual
researchers:
It should have been
XMMU JHHMMSS.s+/-DDMMSS
AND *** NOT *** XMMUJ HHMMSS.s+/-DDMMSS
e.g. source position: RA 03 10 15.1, Dec -76 51 31.2 (J2000)
recommended acronym: XMMU J031015.1-765131
source position: RA 17 23 48.7, Dec +82 17 33.8 (J2000)
recommended acronym: XMMU J172348.7+821733
The coordinates for the designation are "truncated" and not "rounded".
XMMU is intended to be used for those serendipitous sources which need to
be referenced in a paper.
For work involving exploitation of the full set of serendipitously detected
sources in one or multiple XMM-Newton fields we recommend the XMMAA, XMMAAA,
etc. approach. Here AA or AAA represent the authors' initials, and should be
used for large interim surveys provided that the authors have submitted their
acronym to the Acronym Registry (for further details see the IAU Specifications
for Nomenclature web page at http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/iau-spec.html).
The discussion on how to name OM detected sources is still ongoing with the
"Clearing House" members. For the time being we propose to name them
XAU JHHMMSS.s+/-DDMMSS to distinguish them from XMM-Newton sources detected in
X-rays.
Target of Opportunity Notification Page
=======================================
The XMM-Newton SOC has released to the public now its Target of Opportunity
(ToO) Notification Web Page which is available at
http://xmm.vilspa.esa.es/user/too/too_alert_top.html
This page forms the unique interface for the submission of all ToO proposals.
The proposer will need to enter important target information which is further
used to validate the request. The page also informs about the terms of
reference which do apply for the proposal evaluation, data reduction and
publication.
SAS status & RGS calibration problem
====================================
The further development and maintenance of the XMM-Newton Science Analysis
System (SAS) is continuing at high pace. Significant updates of the tasks
and calibrations have been implemented. Testing is ongoing to make the SAS
ready for the next public release (SAS 5.1) which currently is foreseen for
June 2001.
In order to prepare for the intermediate SAS release to be used by the
Processing Pipeline Subsystem (PPS), for some time, the combination of SAS 5.0
with the calibration files RGS1_CROSSPSF_0002.CCF and RGS2_CROSSPSF_0002.CCF
was used. This created inappropriate selection regions on the cross-dispersion
versus dispersion plane.
It has been decided by the project scientist that this was not
serious enough to justify to hold the release of the products. Due to many
changes in the calibrations of RGS over that period, the user is advised
anyhow to re-run the processing and extract new spectra with most recent
calibration files.
The Survey Science Center (SSC) has provided a list of obs-id's where RGS
spatial images extraction regions in the PPS products were strangely defined.
Of the 171 product sets delivered to the SOC so far 96 are affected. The
attached list of observation IDs is that of product sets delivered by the SSC
to the SOC in which the product *CALIND* includes the filenames
RGS?_CROSSPSF_0002.CCF, i.e. those affected by use of the incorrect
calibration files.
To be informed of the periodic updates to the CCF (Current Calibration Files)
you might consider subscribing to the CCF mailing list
(http://xmm.vilspa.esa.es/mailman/listinfo/ccf/). You can visit the list
archives at http://xmm.vilspa.esa.es/pipermail/ccf/, too.
XMM-Newton data CD-ROM production
=================================
The production of the CD-ROMs containing XMM-Newton data (ODFs and PPS
products) is fully operational. At the time of this bulletin, 164 CD-ROMs
have already been shipped to the corresponding observation PIs.
The goal is to ship CD-ROMs to the PIs within 30 days from the observation.
For all the observations performed later than February 16 2001, CD-ROMs are
produced on a real-time line. Earlier observations are being reprocessed in
a dedicated back-up production line. The reprocessing will be completed
within a few months.
XMM-Newton Science Archive (XSA)
================================
The first version of the XMM-Newton Science Archive (XSA) will be online
at the time when the data rights for the first GT observations will have
expired (March 2002).
In the meanwhile, SAS scientific validation datasets are accessible through
the URL: http://xmm.vilspa.esa.es/public/xmm_sas_sv_top.html.
With best regards,
The XMM-Newton User Support Group
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List of ODF product sets affected by the wrong RGS spatial extraction
region problem (as provided by the SSC)
ODF # | PI (CAL=calibration target; PV=Performance Verification)
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0007420701 Parmar
0007420801 Parmar
0007421001 Parmar
0007421801 Parmar
0007421901 Parmar
0007422001 Parmar
0007422101 Parmar
0007422201 Parmar
0007422301 Parmar
0007425001 Parmar
0008220201 Gondoin
0018741001 Edge
0042340501 Boehringer
0051590301 Kallman
0060740101 Liedhal
0060740601 Liedhal
0067190301 Porquet
0080940401 Maraschi
0080940501 Maraschi
0083280201 Kaper
0083280501 Kaper
0084140101 McBreen
0084230301 Kneib
0085110201 Churazov
0087940101 Hughes
0093552701 Charles
0093553001 Charles
0093640901 Bauer
0093650201 Murray
0094360201 Quataert
0098610101 PV
0098610201 PV
0099280501 CAL
0099280601 CAL
0100240101 Jansen
0100240201 Jansen
0100240801 Jansen
0101040301 Jansen
0101040401 Jansen
0101040601 Jansen
0101440401 Pallavicini
0102040201 Jansen
0102041001 Jansen
0103660201 Aschenbach
0105870101 Aschenbach
0106260201 Aschenbach
0106460101 Aschenbach
0108670401 Mushotzky
0109090101 Mason
0109130901 Mason
0109530401 Mason
0109950101 Brinkman
0109950201 Brinkman
0109980301 Bleeker
0109990501 Bleeker
0110661401 Jansen
0110920201 Watson
0110980701 Jansen
0111080301 Brinkman
0111150101 Watson
0111150201 Watson
0111150601 Watson
0111390201 Brinkman
0111490301 Brinkman
0112310301 Turner
0112650401 Aschenbach
0112650601 Aschenbach
0112670301 Brinkman
0112670401 Brinkman
0112830501 Griffiths
0112830601 Griffiths
0112870101 Aschenbach
0112870701 Aschenbach
0112880901 Aschenbach
0112910101 Turner
0112910301 Turner
0112910401 Turner
0113050201 Turner
0113050801 Turner
0124712201 PV
0124712301 PV
0125320501 CAL
0132121901 CAL
0132122001 CAL
0132122101 CAL
0132122401 CAL
0132132301 CAL
0132530401 CAL
0132530501 CAL
0133120701 CAL
0134531301 CAL
0134540301 CAL
0134561301 CAL
0134920901 CAL
0135120201 Bleeker
0135120801 Bleeker
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