XMM Users' Handbook

   
Documentation

We compile here links and references of additional sources of information on XMM.

1.

Other online XMM SOC services

• XMM Latest News
  http://astro.estec.esa.nl/XMM/news/news_top.html

• The XMM Science Simulator (SciSim)
  http://astro.estec.esa.nl/XMM/scisim/scisim.html

• XMM Target Visibility Tool
  http://astro.estec.esa.nl/XMM/user/vis/vis_top.html

• XMM Proposal Handling Subsystem (PHS; in preparation)
  http://www.xmmsoc.ops.esa.int

• XMM Remote Proposal Submission software (XRPS; in preparation)
  http://www.xmmsoc.ops.esa.int

• XMM Archive Management Subsystem (AMS; in preparation)
  http://www.xmmsoc.ops.esa.int

• ``Building XMM'' - an online picture gallery
  http://astro.estec.esa.nl/XMM/user/build/buildxmm_top.html

• PIMMS (HEASARC)
  http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/Tools/w3pimms.html

2.

Online XMM documents

• Call for Proposals (AO-1)
  http://astro.estec.esa.nl/XMM/news/AO/ao1_top.html

• XRPS Users' Manual (in preparation)
  

• SAS User Requirements Document
  ftp://astro.estec.esa.nl/pub/XMM/documents/XMM-PS-GM-12_i1.0.ps.gz

• SAS Software Specification Document
  ftp://astro.estec.esa.nl/pub/XMM/documents/sas_ssd_issue2.0.ps.gz

• XMM Data Files Handbook (in preparation)
  

• Constraints on the OM Window Configuration and Definition of the OM Default Configurations
  ftp://astro.estec.esa.nl/pub/XMM/documents/xmm_ps_tn_026.ps.gz

3.

XMM documents that are available as paper copies only

• XMM Science Management Plan ESA/SPC(88)20

Additional information on XMM can always be obtained from other locations under the SOC home page, at http://astro.estec.esa.nl/XMM/.