From 4 to 10 October, the international initiative World Space Week 2021 celebrates “Women in Space”. More than 90 countries will join in this initiative to give visibility to the accomplishments and contributions of women to the space sector and sciences. From our H2020 XMM2ATHENA project we want to also contribute to this celebration with…
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Welcome to Keir Birchall, who joined the project in early August. During his post-doctorate in Leicester, under the supervision of Michael G. Watson, Keir will work mainly on work package 9 until the end of the project, in March 2024. He will also contribute to work packages 3, 5, 8 and 10 as part of…
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A new version of the XMM-Newton EPIC Serendipitous Source Catalogue, 4XMM-DR11, has been released on 18th August 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-DR10. 4XMM-DR11 includes 895,415 X-ray detections which relate to 602,543 unique X-ray sources from 12,210…
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Holger Stiele joined the Universidad de Cantabria since June, as a post-doc under the supervision of Francisco Carrera. Until the end of the project, he will be mainly involved in work package 6, but will also have major contributions to work packages 7 et 8.
Maitrayee has just joined the IRAP lab, since the beginning of July, as a post-doc under the supervision of Natalie Webb. For 2 years, Maitrayee will be mainly involved in work package 5, but will also contribute to work packages 1, 3, 8, 9 and 10.
Recently, the University of Cantabria has publicized an article in XMM2Athena project in its web news (in Spanish). There also a nice interview with Francisco Carrera and Maria Teresa Ceballos talking about the project (again in Spanish, of course). Many thanks to them for their time.
Rosa Domínguez is working part-time at IFCA with Maite Ceballos and Francisco Carrera as Assistant in the WP10 for Communication. She has joined the project in May and she’ll be running the Social Media and producing materials for the Outreach section.
We are please to welcome Adriana Pires and Angel Ruiz on the XMM2ATHENA. They joined the project in April and will work on it until the end. Adriana is working in Potsdam (AIP) with Axel Schwope, on the work package 4 (Enhanced stacked catalogue). She will be in charge of task T4.1 (redesign of software…
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The kick-off meeting was held online with over 50 people present. The meeting brought together the project leader (Natalie Webb), the European project officer in charge of the project, representatives of the eight XMM2ATHENA beneficiaries and scientists and students linked to or interested in the project. The project with its 10 work packages was presented…
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The XMM2ATHENA Kick-off meeting will take place on April 21 and 22, from 10am to 1pm (CEST) XMM2ATHENA kick-off meeting agenda Wednesday 21st April 2021 Chairperson : Francisco Carrera 10:00 – Welcome10:10 – XMM2ATHENA overview (Natalie Webb, 20 min)10:45 – General introduction (Diana Mjaschkova-Pascual, 30 min)11:35 – Group photo11:40 – (Coffee) break12:00 – Work package…
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