XMM-Newton Users Handbook

... lists.¹

An event list is a table with one line per received event, listing (among others) attributes of the events such as the x and y position at which they were registered, their arrival time and their energy.

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... passage)²

The Target Visibility Checker, a tool to check the visibility of any target in the sky for XMM-Newton, provides also information on the orbital phase when the target visibility starts and ends.

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...uhb:fig:epic_sens³

The 5$\sigma$ value represents a relatively conservative limit. For the effective beam area of XMM-Newton, the appropriate limit for purely Poissonian background fluctuations to yield $\le 1$ spurious source per field is about 3.5 - 4$\sigma$.

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... Å⁴

The formula for conversion of wavelengths into energies is $\lambda$(Å) $\times$E(keV) = 12.3985

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...http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ⁵

http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/Tools/w3pimms.html

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... time⁶

Frametransfer time is the time needed to transfer the charge accumulated on the continuously exposed CCD during an integration time into the storage area. It amounts to $\simeq$0.1740 ms. The sum of the integration time and the frame transfer time is the frametime. The frametime depends on the sizes, shapes and positions of the windows. For a full frame it amounts to about 11 ms. The only time when source photons are not properly recorded by the detector is during charge transfer. Therefore, the deadtime is equal to the frametransfer time.

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... support⁷

see http://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/proposal-enhancement

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... tables⁸

In this section the reader will find two types of “offsets”: “offset tables” for the zero level of charge measurements in EPIC cameras (see § 3.3.6) and “pointing offsets” for the distance between adjacent telescope pointings.

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