April 12 - 13, 2006HEASARC Users Group

Steve Drake

XMM-Newton Archive at HEASARC: Status and Plans

Steve Drake

April 12 - 13, 2006HEASARC Users Group

Steve Drake

XMM-Newton: Mission Status, Overview of US Program & Archive

• Currently in 7th year of operations; to be supported by ESA through 2010

• Spacecraft and subsystems have no major problems• 5th GO cycle observations start in May 2006• US investigators comprise ~40% of GO program PIs,

~70% of programs have US participation (supported by NASA grants)

• NASA GOF provides technical and scientific support to US community (2.5 science FTEs)

• Future Profile of NASA XMM-Newton funding to be determined by 2006 MO&DA Senior Review

April 12 - 13, 2006HEASARC Users Group

Steve Drake

XMM-Newton: Recent Milestones

• 9 March 2005: 1 of 7 MOS2 CCDs destroyed by micrometeorite, the other 6 were unaffected

• August 2005: Release of XMM SAS V6.5• December 2005: AO-5 results released• December 2005: XMM-Newton mission extended until at least 2010• 2005: 2.5 TB (18% of total HEASARC), or about 9000 data sets, of

XMM-Newton data downloaded from the archive• January 2006: Publication of 1000th refereed article using XMM-

Newton data• February 2006: 0.9 TB of public XMM-Newton data available from the

HEASARC• February 2006: XMM-Newton OM data available via MAST interface• April 2006: Release of XMM-Newton Extended Source Analysis

Software (XMM-ESAS) for modeling EPIC-MOS background both spatially and spectrally (Steve Snowden & Kip Kuntz)

April 12 - 13, 2006HEASARC Users Group

Steve Drake

XMM-Newton GOF & Archive: Upcoming Milestones

• April/May 2006: Release of XMM-Newton Serendipitous Source Catalog (XMMSSC) v.2 with 100,000 sources, 10,000 with spectra and light curves (SSC Consortium)

• April/May 2006: Release of EPIC PN Slew Survey

• May 2006: Release of OM Catalog

• May 2006: XMM-Newton in MO&DA Senior Review

• Fall 2006: AO-6 Proposal Cycle – Release 28 August, due 6 October