XMM-Newton Mission Status & Performance Indicator

30-Jun-2008
Revolution 1566

Observing Time Implementation Status as of Revolution 1566

Open Time Program - AO6

Priority A and B
Number of allocated targets 419
Allocated cumulative exposure time (ks) 13099.7
Number of successfully observed targets 409  (97.6%)
Successfully observed cumulative exposure time (ks) 12805.5  (97.8%)
Priority C
Number of allocated targets 214
Allocated cumulative exposure time (ks) 7728.5
Number of successfully observed targets 086  (40.2%)
Successfully observed cumulative exposure time (ks) 2458.8  (31.8%)

Open Time Program - AO7

Priority A and B
Number of allocated targets 319
Allocated cumulative exposure time (ks) 11699.5
Number of successfully observed targets 088  (27.6%)
Successfully observed cumulative exposure time (ks) 2178.0  (18.6%)
Priority C
Number of allocated targets 275
Allocated cumulative exposure time (ks) 7904.0
Number of successfully observed targets 001  (0.4%)
Successfully observed cumulative exposure time (ks) 38.0  (0.5%)

TOO Targets

Number of targets 196
Successfully observed cumulative exposure time (ks) 5678.5

Operational efficiency indicators as of revolution 1566

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

Legends are available for these PDF diagrams.

Data Processing and Distribution status as of 30-Jun-2008

Total number of Planned Observations in Routine Phase (revs 0103-1566) 6998
Total number of Performed Observations in Routine Phase 6659
Total number of Observation Data Files generated 6512
Total number of Pipeline/Data Products sets generated and distributed 6384

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
1825
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