XMM-Newton-NEWS

Contents:

• Workshop Announcement: XMM-Newton survey legacy for Athena and beyond
• XRISM: first ESA announcement of opportunity open

WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT: XMM-NEWTON SURVEY LEGACY FOR ATHENA AND BEYOND

The 'XMM-Newton survey legacy for Athena and beyond' workshop will be held in Toulouse from 26th to 29th February 2024 and is now open for abstract submission (until 10th December) and registration.

It 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 to learn about the new software that has been developed within the H2020 XMM2ATHENA project, as well as other similar projects, and to see some of the exciting science that has been done using the new tools. The workshop will run over three days, with invited, sollicited and contributed talks covering all of aspects of the areas highlighted above. Poster space will also be available.

Further information can be found at

XRISM: FIRST ESA ANNOUNCEMENT OF OPPORTUNITY OPEN

The first Announcement of Opportunity for the Guest Observer program of XRISM opened on November 15 2023.

Not less than 8% of the total Guest Observing Time, or an equivalent return as mutually agreed, shall be allocated to ESA. The ESA Director of Science has thus issued an invitation to submit Guest Observer proposals for the observation period between July 2024 and June 2025.

The due date for proposals is 12:30 CET, 22 February 2024. The proposal submission tool will open on December 7 2023.

More details are given at

Yours sincerely,

XMM-Newton SOC