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XMM-NEWTON NEWS #200 --- 02-Aug-2017
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XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre at
ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre,
Villanueva de la Canada, Madrid, Spain
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SOC Home Page:
https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton
Helpdesk Web interface:
https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/xmm-newton-helpdesk
Helpdesk email address:
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News Mailing List:
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Contents:
- XMM-Newton Users Handbook update for AO-17
- Version 16.1 of the Science Analysis System (SAS) released
- XSAv9.6 release including pipeline products for Solar System
targets generated in their rest frame
- Documentation updated:
RGS Calibration Status and XMM-Newton Background documents
- XMM-Newton Users Group:
Minutes of meeting and presentations available
- Optical Monitor Event on Revolution 3224
- The X-ray Universe 2017:
Presentations and posters on-line
XMM-Newton Users Handbook update for AO-17
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The XMM-Newton Users Handbook (UHB) has been updated to version 2.15 in
preparation for the next Announcement of Opportunity (AO-17) which will
open next 22nd of August.
The UHB contains information on the instrumentation on board XMM-Newton
and serves as the main technical support document for proposal
preparation, based on which potential XMM-Newton users can assess the
technical feasibility of their planned observations.
The XMM-Newton Users Handbook is on-line at
https://xmm-tools.cosmos.esa.int/external/xmm_user_support/documentation/uhb/
Alternatively, pdf and postscript versions of the UHB can be downloaded
from the "XMM-Newton Proposer's Info and Manuals" portal:
https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/documentation
Version 16.1 of the Science Analysis System (SAS) released
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The XMM-Newton SAS team announces the release of a new sub-version of
the SAS: SAS v16.1. This version is necessary for correcting some SAS
v16.0 issues related to source detection that are detailed below.
- eboxdetect: correction of a bug introduced with SASv16.0 that made
some obvious sources to be missing in the EPIC source lists of a few
observations.
- emldetect: reduction of the number of spurious detections, and
solution to the problem of missing valid detections close to chip gaps
or very far off-axis.
- especget: improvement of the performance for large background regions.
- eimageget: solved a problem with tangential plane projections in large
images.
- eimagecombine: significant reduction of the usage of disk space
through compression of intermediate files.
This version of SAS is released in two 64-bit binary versions for Linux
(RHEL 6.8 and Ubuntu 16), and two for Mac OS X (El Capitan and
Sierra). The versions released have been tested to run correctly on
several other platforms.
Binaries are available at
https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/sas-download
The Pipeline Processing System (PPS) has been migrated to be based on
SAS v16.1, see
https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/pipeline-configurations
Pipeline products that were generated with the previous PPS version
(based on SAS v16.0) have been reprocessed, ingested in the science
archive and Principal Investigators notified.
XSAv9.6 release including
Pipeline products for Solar System targets generated in their rest frame
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A new version of the XMM-Newton Science Archive, XSAv9.6, is available at
https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/xsa
This release includes, among other improvements, the postcards generated
for Finding Charts and Spectra of EPIC PPS sources.
XSA now provides an option to download PPS products of moving targets,
i.e. Solar System objects, generated in their rest frame coordinates, in
parallel to the standard PPS products of these observations. Such
products are being generated for the most recently observed Solar System
objects, and will be generated subsequently for older observations of
moving targets.
Documentation updated:
RGS Calibration Status and XMM-Newton Background documents
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New versions of the following documents have been released:
- RGS Calibration Status
available from the XMM-Newton Calibration Portal:
https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/calibration
- The Behaviour of the XMM-Newton Background
available from the XMM-Newton Background Analysis page:
https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/background
XMM-Newton Users Group:
Minutes of meeting and presentations available
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The XMM-Newton Users Group met on the 11th and 12th of May 2017 at
ESAC. The minutes of the meeting, together with the presentations, can
be found at
https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/users-group
Optical Monitor Event on Revolution 3224
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On July 16 and 17, during a Jupiter observation, two OM exposures were
performed with the V filter instead of the Blocked filter. This was due
to an operational error during the observation preparation. The main
consequence is some damage on the detector area exposed to Jupiter
light. First evaluation shows a 15-20 % sensitivity depletion patch of
approx 76 x 38 arcsec2, centred 40 arcsec offset from the nominal
boresight direction in the -Yaxis direction. The impact on point sources
on-axis is considered negligible at the time of writing this note.
Scientific observations are continuing normally with XMM-Newton,
including OM. The evolution of the OM patch is being monitored and an
update on the photometry calibration for targets in the patch and
potential impact for targets on-axis is also under work.
The X-ray Universe 2017:
Presentations and posters on-line
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The contributions to the symposium 'The X-ray Universe 2017', held in
Rome from 6th to 9th of June 2017, are available at the conference web
page:
https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/2017-symposium
Yours sincerely,
XMM-Newton SOC
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