XMM Users' Handbook

   
Pipeline processing of XMM data: the Pipeline Processing Subsystem (PPS)

One particular application for the use of batch jobs is the XMM Pipeline Processing Subsystem (PPS). The Pipeline Component (PC) of the PPS, i.e., the actual processing tasks (excluding additional software like, e.g., process control, pipeline management etc.) is entirely contained in the SAS. The pipeline will produce standard data products for all XMM science observations, which will enter the XMM data archive within 30 working days (but remain protected for the duration of the proprietary period, if any).

The PPS will create, among others, the following types of data products, which will be delivered to the XMM data archive:

• An observation summary,

• EPIC calibrated event lists,

• EPIC imaging, spectral, and timeseries data products,

• EPIC source list and image analysis products,

• EPIC timing analysis products,

• EPIC PPS summary products,

• RGS calibrated event list,

• RGS image and spectral products,

• RGS PPS summary products

• OM imaging, timeseries and source list products,

• OM PPS summary and miscellaneous (housekeeping and tracking history) products,

• catalogue and archive products (including the names of catalogues that are cross-correlated with EPIC source detection lists and the results of these cross-correlations)

A detailed description of the pipeline processing steps and the PPS data products, which are part of the delivery to observers, will be presented in the XMM Data Files Handbook (in preparation).