XMM-Newton
Abstract
The X-ray Multi-mirror Mission (XMM-Newton) provides simultaneous non-dispersive spectroscopic X-ray imaging and timing, medium resolution dispersive X-ray spectroscopy and optical/UV imaging, spectroscopy and timing. In combination, the imaging cameras offer an effective area over the energy range from 150 eV to 12 keV of up to 2500 cm at 1.5 keV and 1800 cm at 5 keV. The gratings cover an energy range from 0.4 keV to 2.2 keV with a combined effective area of up to 120 cm at 0.8 keV. XMM-Newton offers unique opportunities for a wide variety of sensitive X-ray observations accompanied by simultaneous optical/UV measurements. The majority of XMM-Newton's observing time is made available to the astronomical community by peer-reviewed Announcements of Opportunity. The scientific exploitation of XMM-Newton data is aided by an observatory-class X-ray facility which provides analysis software, pipeline processing, calibration and catalogue generation. Around 380 refereed papers based on XMM-Newton data are published each year with a high fraction of papers reporting transformative scientific results.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2212.10995,
title = {XMM-Newton},
author = {Norbert Schartel and Rosario González-Riestra and Peter Kretschmar and Marcus Kirsch and Pedro Rodríguez-Pascual and Simon Rosen and Maria Santos-Lleó and Michael Smith and Martin Stuhlinger and Eva Verdugo-Rodrigo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.10995},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
37 pages, 28 figures, Invited chapter for {\it Handbook of X-ray and Gamma-ray Astrophysics} (Eds. C. Bambi and A. Santangelo, Springer Singapore, expected in 2022