Toulouse 26-29th February. This workshop will cover a number of topics that are important to legacy missions including catalogues, source detection, source classification and machine learning techniques, time domain astronomy and other tools for exploiting large datasets. There will also be some discussion on citizen science and outreach in general. It will be the chance…
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This year, framed in the Science Week, the II Edition of the International Master Classes in Astrophysics will be held in collaboration with the Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA) and the Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (IRAP) of Toulouse (France). The event will be held on 30 November 2023 from 9:30 to…
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Zhu is a postdoc working at Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE). He will be working on Work Package 5 on X-ray transients objects. [16 November 2023]
Norman is a postdoc working at IRAP, Toulouse. He will be working on Work Package 5: Variability with the goal of testing the feasibility of detecting faint X-ray transients in Athena simulations for both the WFI and X-IFU. [15 November 2023]
[10 November 2023] We release a new service which allows people to retrieve SEDs for both pointed and stacked sources. SEDs are delivered as tarballs containing the FITS files and the plots. Sources must be selected by SRC_ID only. The main purpose of the service is to be invoked from a peer software such as…
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[9 October 2023] On 13 and 14 October, as part of the Fête de la Science, the IRAP is organising its Open Days, which will take place in two stages: Friday 13 October is being organised in collaboration with the Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées and will be dedicated to welcoming schoolchildren. After an introduction by the Observatory’s…
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[3 October 2023] European Researchers’ Night 2023 During the last week of September, the international contest to learn about X-ray astronomy using the Quizizz platform has allowed the general public to know aspects of the following projects: the XMM2Athena project, the Athena Community Office, the Athena/X-IFU and Athena/WFI instruments consortia, and the AHEAD2020 project. Thirty-three…
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[22 September 2023] To celebrate this year’s European Researchers Night, we have prepared an international contest to learn about X-ray astronomy using the Quizizz platform. This contest is a joint international initiative of the following projects: the XMM2Athena project, the Athena Community Office, the Athena/X-IFU and Athena/WFI instruments consortia, and the AHEAD2020 project. The Quizizz…
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[13 September 2023] Dive into the fascinating world of variable sources in XMM-Newton observations! Check out the article prepared by WP9, highlighting the intriguing work done at WP5. Discover how we unravel the mysteries of the cosmos and find those elusive sources. Read it here: http://xmm-ssc.irap.omp.eu/xmm2athena/unveiling-the-twinkling-universe-text/ Prefer to relax and enjoy the back from holidays…
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[12 June 2023] A new version of the XMM-Newton EPIC Serendipitous Source Catalogue, 4XMM-DR13, has been released by the XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre (XMM-SSC) in collaboration with the SOC. This version includes an extra year of data with respect to 4XMM-DR12. 4XMM-DR13 includes 983948 X-ray detections which relate to 656997 unique X-ray sources from 13243…
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