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Report From The Project Scientist. Presentation for the XMM-Newton Users Group Meeting VI 19 th / 20 th May 2005 Norbert Schartel. Contents. Items Status of observing program Questions from UG members to AO4: Time allocation (OTAC) and scheduling
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Report From The Project Scientist Presentation for the XMM-Newton Users Group Meeting VI 19th / 20th May 2005 Norbert Schartel Norbert Schartel
Contents • Items • Status of observing program • Questions from UG members to AO4: • Time allocation (OTAC) and scheduling • XMM-Newton/VLT joint program (action from last UG meeting) • Large programs • Status of AO5 preparations (OTAC) • Report on TOO/DDT observations • Observed • Swift GRB • rejected • Public Relations • Publications • The X-ray Universe 2005 • Mission Extension Norbert Schartel
Status Of Observing Program • Statistics up to REV 995 (18.5.2005) • Guaranteed Time Programfinished • Open Time Program A1 finished • Open Time Program A2 • Number of allocated targets (A and B): 412 • Allocated cumulative exposure time: 12801.3 ks • Number of successfully observed targets: 411 (99.8%) • Successfully observed cumulative exposure time: 12793.0 ks (99.9%) • Successfully observed cumulative exposure time (c): 1343.8 ks (12.7%) • Open Time Program A3 • Number of allocated targets (A and B): 613 • Allocated cumulative exposure time: 19915.3 ks • Number of successfully observed targets: 592 (96.6%) • Successfully observed cumulative exposure time: 19153.2 ks (96.2%) • Successfully observed cumulative exposure time (c): 1210.9 ks ( 9.3%) • Open Time Program A4 • Number of allocated targets (A and B): 462 • Allocated cumulative exposure time: 14695.6 ks • Number of successfully observed targets: 32 (6.9%) • Successfully observed cumulative exposure time: 1399.3 ks (9.5%) • Allocated cumulative exposure time (c): 4447.9 ks Norbert Schartel
AO4 Time Allocation I • OTAC tool (support for rating of proposals and rating in meeting) • Successful and in general positive response • 4 panels had problems, but • 3 of them the tool was not correctly used, i.e. the panel chairperson could finally use the tool (after meeting) • 1 of them one panel might has suffered connection problems • 1 panel chairperson was not using the tool • Majority of (rejected) proposals got comments: • 12 scientists expressed their unhappiness with the decision or the comments • Complaint: 5 pages for large programs and 4 pages for normal programs gives large programs an advantage (which becomes important if only a fraction of the time/targets from the large program is approved) Norbert Schartel
Joint XMM-Newton/VLT • Joint-Newton/VLT(I) programs • Simple exchange of up to 290 ks observing time • Both sides used about 33% of the available time on the other facility • XMM-Newton allocated 97 ks at VLT • ESO allocated 100 ks at XMM-Newton • Small number statistics: • Too early to make a real evaluation • PS recommended to continue with the joint program in AO5 without changes • Accepted programs from XMM-Newton OTAC: • 30554 Sciortino /A Very Deep XMM-Newton Study of the rho Oph Star Forming Region • 30043 Ranalli / Gaseous abundances in NGC3256 • Accepted programs from VLT TAC: • D-0349 Schwope / Multiwavelength mapping of eclipsing polars with ULTRACAM and XMM-Newton • C-0493 Dhillon / A search for optical pulsations in the Anomalous X-ray Pulsars 1E 1048.1-5937 • D-0770 Clarkson / Cir X-1 Norbert Schartel
AO4 Time Allocation II • Large programs vs. “normal” programs • Not completely independent: each panel can allocate time for a large program in the “normal” budget • Over-subscription per scientific category (without time for large programs): • Time available per panel is proportional to requested time • 18.0% of requested time could be allocated in A or B (17.36-18.22) • differences are due to rounding to the next 50 ks (-18 ks, +28 ks) • Over-subscription of large programs: • Large programs / all programs: 19.1% • Large programs / all programs without triggered: 17.5% • Available for large programs: 15.0% of A/B time Norbert Schartel
Large Programs • Distribution with respect to visibility • statistics up to REV 972 (1.4.2005) • Open Time Program A3 • Number of outstanding targets: 42 (6.9%) • Cumulative exposure time of outstanding targets: 1581.6 ksec(8.0%) Norbert Schartel
Large Programs Norbert Schartel
Status Of AO-5 Preparations • New OTAC chairperson: Brian McBreen (University College Dublin) • Planned key milestones (public since 23rd of March, XMM-Newton News 48, on our web-pages): • Announcement: 5 September 2005 • Due date for proposals: 14 October 2005 (12:00 UT) • final approved program: early January 2006 • Phase 2 submission: 23 January - 17 February 2006 • Start of observations: May 2006 • 6 Scientific categories / 13 Panels in total / 66 scientists • Panels: A:2, B:2, C: 2, D: 2, E: 3, F 2 panels • OTAC chairpersons are nominated / letters of D/SCI in work • Panel member search underway Norbert Schartel
TOO/DDT Observations Norbert Schartel
TOO / (Swift) GRBs • burst flux peak OT / z comments • [cnts] [cnts/sec] • 050505 7633 228 o z=4.3 • 050504 Integral (R>21.0, bright source in FOV) • 050502B 6598 500 (R>21.8) • 050502 Integral o z=3.79 • 050422 no BAT position (gal. lat = 2.58deg) • 050421 22529 379 R<22.0. • 050418 6973 533 (34 deg from the Sun) • 050416B 4483 134 (16.81 deg from Moon?) • 050416 2897 165 o • 050412 9336 329 dark(R <~22) • 050410 73810 1406 (R_c <~20.5) • 050408 no Swift burst o z= 1.24 • 050406 9686 297 o (no opt. follow-up) • 050401 6309 170 o z=2.90 • 050326 9418 18395 XMM=5800 cts[10h] (7 hours delay, 20.3) • 050319 5336 263 o z=3.24 • 050318 3359 205 o z=1.44 • 050315 6165 260 o z=1.95 • 050306 44610 665 o (V<21.2) • 050223 37391 726 XMM=1200cts[10h] (R<21.2) • 050219B 9044 409 o • 050219 4874 193 • 050215B 9702 300 o • 050215 35979 694 • 050202 1014 89 • N = 25 N(o)=12 / N(z) =7 (first short burst on 9.9.2005) Norbert Schartel
TOO/DDT Rejected Norbert Schartel
TOO/DDT Rejected II • 13/05/2005 H. Boehringer XMMU J2235.3-2557 • 06/05/2005 J. Osborne GRB 050502b and GRB 050505 • 27/04/2005 S. Deluit NGC 2992 • 21/02/2005 J. M. Miller GRO J1655-40 • 25/01/2005 K. Dennerl Mars • 01/11/2004 K. Dennerl Comet C/Machholz (2004 Q2) • 11/08/2004 S. Molendi Perseus Norbert Schartel
Public Relations / ESA Science News • 2004 (1st January – 31st of December): 9 (+ 10 internal) • 2005 (1st January – 11th of May): 6 (+ 2 internal) • All are collected at : • http://xmm.vilspa.esa.es/external/xmm_news/latest_news.shtml • In 2005 changes in public relations structure of ESA Norbert Schartel
Publications 2004: 306 publications in refereed journals based on XMM-Newton observations Norbert Schartel
The X-ray Universe 2005 • Announcements: • 28 Oct 2004: 1st • 14 Apr 2005: 2nd • There are several other X-ray conferences (Dublin, Amsterdam, Cambridge, partly overlap with Munich) • Registration + abstract submission ongoing: deadline end of May • Poster printed and sent • Invited talks: • SOC agreed on about 50% • Mike Watson and I are inviting the identified scientists • Written proceedings? Norbert Schartel
Mission Extension • Required: • highlight talk for AWG • written scientific case • Support of UG Members required Norbert Schartel