XMM-Newton-NEWS


XMM-Newton-NEWS  #146,    16-Apr-2013

XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre at
ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre,
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Contents:



Users Group Meeting #14: Invitation from UG to contact them for comments

The XMM-Newton Users Group (UG) will hold its yearly meeting next 16th and 17th May at ESAC. As always, we would like to invite you to contact any of the members of the UG and/or myself if you have any sort of feedback, suggestion or topic that you would like the UG to discuss in relation to the XMM-Newton operations.

The amount of feedback that we have been receiving recently is rather modest. Although this might be attributable to XMM-Newton operations having reached some maturity, there is always room for improvement. Please note that we rely on your views to advise the project on how to make XMM-Newton a better X-ray observatory.

Thanks for your help,

Xavier Barcons, Chair, XMM-Newton Users Group

Note the new UG membership:

X. Barcons (chair), H. Boehringer, A. Decourchelle, C. Done, M. Guedel, M. Mendez, R. Mushotzky, C. Sarazin, B. Stelzer and M. Salvati (OTAC Chair).

A dedicated Web page of the Users Group is available at:

     https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/users-group

This Web page provides, among other information, the contact points for all interested astronomers to send their comments to the UG members.

XMM-Newton 2013 Science Workshop:
Financial Support for Students (deadline 21st April) and Science Programme available

As announced in a previous issue of the XMM-Newton Newsletter

     XMM-Newton Workshop: 2nd Announcement

the XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre of the European Space Agency is organising an astrophysical workshop:

The Fast and the Furious:
Energetic Phenomena in Isolated Neutron Stars,
Pulsar Wind Nebulae and Supernova Remnants

from Wednesday 22nd to Friday 24th May 2013
at the European Space Astronomy Centre
Madrid, Spain

Financial support can be offered to a limited number of eligible students by the ESA Education Office.

Deadline for applications of funding support is Sunday 21st April

Registration will remain open until Friday 26th April.

The science programme is now available at the conference web page:

     https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/2013-workshop/

Contact:

Local Organising Committee:    

Publishing XMM-Newton Results

When publishing an article using XMM-Newton data, please follow the XMM-Newton publication guidelines at

     https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/publication-guidelines

In particular, please remember to include the information needed to uniquely identify the XMM-Newton data that have been used. Such details will allow us to link every observation in the XMM-Newton Science Archive to the publications in which it has been employed.



Yours sincerely,
XMM-Newton SOC