[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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[09 June 2023] IRAP, Toulouse, France The `Astrophysics of Compact Objects’ group in the GAHEC department of IRAP, Toulouse invites applications for a postdoctoral position to participate in the IRAP XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre (SSC) activities. IRAP directs the 8 European institutes that constitute the XMM-Newton SSC, responsible in part for producing the XMM-Newton Science…
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[08 June 2023] Pooja works in WP2 expanding the functionalities of the statistical multi-wavelength cross-matching software developed by the ARCHES FP-7 European project and in the scientific explotation of this tool.
[07 June 2023] Postdoctoral position at Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory The Observatory is one of the member institutions of the XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre (SSC) and it also harbours the CDS (Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg). The SSC group is also actively involved in future missions such as SVOM and Athena or projets such as…
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[03 May 2023] Ultra-/hyperluminous X-ray sources (ULX/HLX) could be interesting laboratories to further improve our understanding of the supermassive black hole growth through super-Eddington accretion episodes and successive mergers of lighter holes. ULXs are thought to be powered by super-Eddington accretion onto stellar-mass compact objects, while HLXs may be accreting intermediate mass black holes (IMBH).…
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[20 April 2023] Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star passes close to a massive black hole, so that the tidal forces of the black hole exceed the binding energy of a star and cause it to be ripped apart. Part of the matter will fall onto the black hole, causing a strong increase…
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