[07/10/2024] We are happy to announce our next hands-on SIXTE workshop taking place November 6th to 8th 2024 at SRON in Leiden. SIXTE is a software package for simulations of X-ray observations, which is used as the official end-to-end simulator for both current and future X-ray missions such as eROSITA and NewAthena. It can also…
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[03/10/2024] European Researchers’ Night During the last week of September, the second edition of the international contest to learn about X-ray astronomy allowed the general public to know about the XMM2Athena, NewAthena mission and AHEAD2020 EU H2020 projects. We have a clear winner of the contest (Nickname: SW) who achieved 5400 points. SW, please contact…
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[20/09/2024] Are you ready to show your X-ray astronomy knowledge again? Following the success of last year’s European Researchers Night quiz contest, we have prepared a new version to learn more facts about X-ray astronomy using the Quizizz platform. This contest is a joint international initiative of the following projects: XMM2Athena project, the Athena Community…
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[26/07/2024] Work package 6 aims at providing spectral charaterisations for several subsamples of serendipitous XMM-Newton sources, taking advantage of their X-ray spectra, automatically extracted during the pipeline processing of all XMM-Newton products. A new new version of the deliverable D6.3 catalogue has been released. You can find the information in our catalogue section (http://xmm-ssc.irap.omp.eu/xmm2athena/catalogues/ )…
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[09/07/2024] A new version of the XMM-Newton EPIC Serendipitous Source Catalogue, 4XMM-DR14, has been released by the XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre (XMM-SSC) in collaboration with the XMM-Newton SOC.This version includes an extra year of data with respect to 4XMM-DR13. 4XMM-DR14 now has over a million X-ray detections (1035832) which relate to 692109 unique X-ray sources…
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David is a postdoctoral researcher at the AIP. His work focuses on multi-wavelength observations of highly variable Active Galactic Nuclei. Within the XMM2Athena project, David works as part of Work Package 4 and provides assistance with evaluating the source detection in the Enhanced Stacked Catalogue.
[29 May 2024] Over recent decades, astronomy has entered the era of massive data and real-time surveys. This is improving the study of transient objects – although they still contain some of the most poorly understood phenomena in astrophysics, as it is inherently more difficult to obtain data on them. In order to help detect…
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[14/05/2024] Last week we celebrated the #BlackHoleWeek. Throughout the week we posted videos with astronomers answered children’s questions about #blackholes. This activity was carried out together with Athena Community Office and AHEAD2020 projects. Now you can watch all the videos on our Youtube channel: https://bit.ly/xmm2athena_youtube Enjoy it!
[06/05/2024] Black holes are one of the most fascinating objects in the universe, and children are often curious about them. This #BlackHoleWeek, scientists from our community, Athena and AHEAD2020 projects answer questions from children in 4 languages. Every day we will be releasing a new video, stay tuned to our social media and website.
The XMM2Athena team joins the celebration of the International Women’s Day.
