Ops. AGENDA Status of open Action Items Metcalfe Science Operations Status Metcalfe Instrument Operations Buenadicha EPIC Monitoring Stuhlinger/Smith 1

Ops. AGENDA

• Status of open Action ItemsMetcalfe

• Science Operations Status Metcalfe

• Instrument Operations Buenadicha

• EPIC MonitoringStuhlinger/Smith

1Science Operations & Data Systems Division Research & Scientific Support Department

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XMM-NewtonXMM-Newton

Meeting/action Status Subject Actionee Due

EPIC TTD-0014/3 Open Explain increases in pn offset variance in the 840 M. Smith 2005-03-03 to 870 plus revolution range

EPIC TTD-0014/5 Open Provide an agenda draft for a hypothetical OBSW G. Buenadicha 2005-03-03 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.


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ACTIONS

SCIENCE OPERATIONS STATUSfor

EPIC TTD MEETING

PALMA de MALLORCA

26 October 2006

L. Metcalfe SCI-SDX

XMM-Newton Science Support Manager


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CONTENTS

• Significant meetings and dates

• Operations: Status & Modes

• General Calibration Points

• Data Processing - SSC

• Miscellaneous


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SIGNIFICANT MEETINGS

AND

DATES


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SIGNIFICANT MEETINGS

• Users Group Meeting #7 18/19 May 2006

• SAS Workshop 2006 30 May-02 Jun. 2006

• ICWG meeting, Iceland 14-16 Jun. 2006

• Variable & Broad Fe Lines around Black Holes 26-28 Jun. 2006

• EPIC Background Working Group @ Palma 25 Oct. 2006

• EPIC Cal./Ops. Meeting @ Palma de Mallorca 26-27 Oct. 2006

• SSC Consortium Meeting @ Potsdam 13-15 Nov. 2006

(incl. SAS Wk. Group Meeting)

• OM Cal. & TTD meeting @ ESAC late 2006

• EPIC Cal. Workshop @ ESAC 18-19 Jan. 2007

• Inter-mission X-ray cross-calibration 08-11 May 2007

Intnl. Working Group on cross-cal. & the defn. of X-ray standards no.II.

• ESAC Science Workshop 2007: Legacy Science modes 04-06 Jun. 2007

• Users Group meeting #8 07-08 Jun. 2007

• SAS Workshop 2007 18-21 Jun. 2007

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#7 May 2006

• EPIC Background Working Group tools Apr. & June 2006

SAS

• SAS 7.0 release (+ RGS vs EPIC cal. Improvements) 30 June 2006

• to be used for the reprocessing


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SIGNIFICANT DATES II

XSA

• XSA 2.9 Querying other Archives Apr. 2006

• XSA 3.0 Release of the Slew Survey Catalogue 03 May 2006

• XSA 3.5 2XMM-beta 28 Aug. 2006

2XMM-beta

• Released by SSC 24 July 2006

• and through XSA 3.5 28 Aug. 2006


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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 May 2007


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OPERATIONS


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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 ??

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


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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.

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 35 min

2) Rev-621 : instruments were closed for 2 h 20 min

3) Rev-628 : instruments were closed for 20 min

4) Rev-873 : instruments were closed for 1 h 30 min

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).


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GENERAL CALIBRATION POINTS


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CCF RELEASE NOTES IN PERIOD

XMM-CCF-REL-220 RGS1 CCD9 node1 CTIX scale factor 11 Aug 2006

XMM-CCF-REL-218 RGS cool pixels 29 Jun 2006

XMM-CCF-REL-217 RGS background spectra templates 28 Jun2006

XMM-CCF-REL-216 A new model for RGS effective area 29 Jun2006

XMM-CCF-REL-215 RGS per.-CCD sens. 2&3 order gr.eff. 29 Jun 2006

XMM-CCF-REL-214 Revision of the RGS CCD gains 27 Jun2006

XMM-CCF-REL-213 Evolution of the RGS CTI 29 Jun 2006

XMM-CCF-REL-212 Tuning RGS Instr. MgF2 abs. Mkn421 27 Jun 2006

XMM-CCF-REL-207 Update of EPIC MOS Gain 17 May 2006

XMM-CCF-REL-206 Update of EPIC MOS CTI 24 May 2006

XMM-CCF-REL-204 EPIC PN Bad Pixels 06 Mar2006

XMM-CCF-REL-203 Long term EPIC-pn CTI refinement 05 Apr 2006

NRCOs

59 RGS long- response & MOS CTI with Vela 2006-01-25

48 Refinement of pn-CTI corr. (follow-up NRCO 34) 2005-02-25

51 Establishing X-ray stdrds: RGS and RXJ 1856-3754 2005-04-20

54 The RGS response to the Crab X-ray standard 2005-08-23

55 RGS CTI calibration 2005-09-01

56 Verification of the EPIC high energy resolution 2005-11-11

57 Investigation of the random EPIC-pn gain scatter 2005-11-11

58 Verification of the EPIC-pn relative timing 2005-11-11

59 RGS long- response & the MOS CTI with Vela 2006-01-25

62 EPIC-pn Burst mode energy calibration refinement 2006-05-17

DATA PROCESSING - SSC


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Turn-around time between data acquisition and GO (PIPE) delivery as of 31-March-2006

MISCELLANEOUS

PUBLICATIONSOTHER …


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XSA


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