XMM-Newton Mission Status & Performance Indicator

31-Mar-2008
Revolution 1521

Observing Time Implementation Status as of Revolution 1521

Open Time Program - AO6

Priority A and B
Number of allocated targets 403
Allocated cumulative exposure time (ks) 12839.7
Number of successfully observed targets 382  (94.8%)
Successfully observed cumulative exposure time (ks) 12139.9  (94.5%)
Priority C
Number of allocated targets 214
Allocated cumulative exposure time (ks) 7731.0
Number of successfully observed targets 46  (21.5%)
Successfully observed cumulative exposure time (ks) 1267.0  (16.4%)

TOO Targets

Number of targets 191
Successfully observed cumulative exposure time (ks) 5530.5

Operational efficiency indicators as of revolution 1521

Instrument Efficiency Breakdown
over the past 6 months 		Evolution of efficiency
since start of routine phase
PN PN Efficiency PN Evolution
MOS 1 MOS Efficiency MOS Evolution
RGS 1 RGS Efficiency RGS Evolution
OM OM Efficiency OM Evolution

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Data Processing and Distribution status as of 31-Mar-2008

Total number of Planned Observations in Routine Phase (revs 0103-1521) 6794
Total number of Performed Observations in Routine Phase 6456
Total number of Observation Data Files generated 6313
Total number of Pipeline/Data Products sets generated and distributed 6104

Turnaround (in days) between Data acquisition and final Data Products distribution (last Quarter)
Values in excess of 90 days usually indicate a problem analysing the data and/or that re-processing was required.
 Data Delay

Details on the Observation Status can be found on the Observation & Data Processing pages.

Publications based on XMM-Newton data

Number of refereed papers based on XMM-Newton Data
 1751
Refereed papers
Extracted from ADS, selecting only those papers which make direct use of XMM-Newton archival data and excluding papers which make indirect use of XMM-Newton data from published results. 		Quarterly Pubs