XMM Users' Handbook

   
Contents of the XMM archive

The XMM data archive consists of two parts:

1.

Raw data, as they come from the satellite, will be stored at the Mission Operations Centre (MOC) in Darmstadt. These data will not be accessible to the outside world.

2.

ODFs/SDFs reside in the XMM Data Archive of the SOC. After pipeline processing, calibrated event lists and data products derived from the ODFs/SDFs enter the XMM Data Archive.

Among others, the science data archive, from which users can retrieve or request data, contains the following types of data:

• Observation and Slew Data Files (ODFs/SDFs; § 6.1.3),

• calibrated X-ray event lists and OM images (or OM event lists in case of fast mode observations),

• pipeline data products created from these (§ 6.1.2),

• CCFs (§ 6.2.1),

• a list of accepted proposals (including abstracts),

• the XMM catalogue,

• various others.