Science Operations Status

Maria Santos-LleoEPIC cal & ops meeting, Madrid23-24 March, 2010

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Contents

Science program status Mission planning Community Support Instruments SAS Users Group

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Science Program

AO8, May 2009 - April 2010: status as of March 16:• A+B performed: 12,300 ks: 95% • C: 2800 ks: 32% of recommended C time

AO9, May 2010 – April 2011• Oversubscription 7.7 & 539 proposals• Second phase finished February 5, enhancement ~ finished

A10 milestones:• Call open on August 24, 2010• Closure on October 8 (12UT) 2010• Approved program: late December 2010• Second phase: January 10 – February 4, 2011• Start observations: May 2011

Courtesy: P.Rodriguez

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Mission Planning

AO9: May 2010 – April 2011: • Long Term Plan in preparation, to go public in May

Scheduling:• On-board antenna constraints check at SOC efficiency fully recovered• Frequent Ground/Station maintenance-upgrade periods need to use backup G/S with sometimes lower performance Some impact on scheduling

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Community Support: data access

Archive: next XSA release week of April 26:• access to 2XMMiDR3, • Access to next incremental version of Slew Catalogue

Latest Slew Results (R.Duro, R.Saxton, N.Schartel)• http://xmm.esac.esa.int/external/xmm_products/slew_results

BiRD updated with public data until September 2009 (R.Gonzalez & P.Rodriguez)

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Community Support: workshops

Science Workshop: Ultra-luminous X-ray sources and Middle Weight Black Holes• http://xmm.esac.esa.int/external/xmm_science/workshops/2010_science/• Program to be available on April 15• Workshop 24-26 May at ESAC (bus transport from Madrid)

X-ray Universe 2011: May or June 2011, new venue (a European capital?)

SAS workshop: 21-25 June

10th anniversary presentations at:• http://xmm.esac.esa.int/external/xmm_news/items/10th_Anniversary/

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Community Support: documentation

Users Handbook: next update needed for AO-10:• Calibration scientist (Matteo) will ask for inputs in early May• Inputs needed by end of May

SAS manual: update following next release

Reminder: send your preferred pictures to the Gallery • http://xmm.esac.esa.int/external/xmm_science/gallery/public/index.php

Reminder: let us know about Thesis done with XMM-Newton data

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Instruments

RGS: see Andy’ s presentation OM

• Overall performance is monitored through regular observation of spectro-photometric standard stars:

– time dependent sensitivity degradation correction is implemented into SAS.• Bad pixels (dead and low sensitivity) are checked using flat fields and extended

objects observations. Sources affected by bad pixels are flagged into SAS.• Astrometry and photometric calibration (instrumental system, conversion to

standard Johnson UBV and AB system in UV) are applied by SAS• Grisms wavelength and absolute flux calibration applied by SAS• A OM calibration paper will be submitted to a refereed publication soon.

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SAS

SAS 10 is in the track … • Currently frozen, • Waiting for validation results

See Richard’ s presentation

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Users Group

Meeting #11: 12-13 May at ESAC Recommendations for EPIC: see Matteo’ s presentation Other:

• Time epoch-dependent fudge function for RGS effective area such that the joint analysis of RGS and EPIC data is possible

• Continue to play a leading role in cross-cal with other missions• RISA: long-term task with low priority, investigate as well other options• Investigate if coordinated efforts to maintain software and prepare for the future

with Chandra, Heasarc, Suzaku … New chair after this meeting: Xavier Barcons, already attending in May

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Science

See, e.g. N.Schartelpresentation in the 10th anniversary event

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Thanks !

Thank you very much to the Instrument teams for their continuous support and contribution to science operations !

Questions?