XMM – Newton Survey Science Centre

The XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre (XMM-SSC) was selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) in 1996.  The XMM-SSC provides the scientific community with the the tools necessary to exploit all of the XMM-Newton data. 

Objectives

The XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre (SSC) is a consortium of ten European institutes with the following responsibilities : 

• development of the software (Science Analysis System (SAS)) for the reduction and analysis of XMM-Newton data
• the reduction of all of the XMM-Newton data to provide to observers
• the production of catalogues of the X-ray sources detected in the XMM-Newton data
• the identification of the X-ray sources

IRAP’s role in the XMM-SSC

• Head of the consortium
• Production, validation and publication of the catalogues
• Participation in the pipeline processing
• Software development and identification of X-ray sources

Partners

The XMM-SSC service includes the three French institutes ; Strasbourg Observatory, Midi-Pyrenees Observatory and the AIM, CEA, Saclay.

The XMM-SSC consortium members are :

• Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, Toulouse, France
• University of Leicester, UK
• Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, UK
• Max-Planck Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, Germany
• Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik, Potsdam (AIP), Germany
• Département d’Astrophysique, CEA/DRF/IRFU, Saclay, France
• Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg, France
• Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria, Santander, Spain