XMM-Newton Users Handbook

List of Tables

• 1. XMM-Newton characteristics - an overview
• 2. The on-axis in orbit and on ground 1.5 keV PSFs of the different X-ray telescopes
• 3. Basic numbers for the science modes of EPIC
• 4. Detection limits (about 4$\sigma$) for different energy bands, based on 100 ksec of data from the Lockman hole (Hasinger et al. (2001), Tab. 2)
• 5. The effect of pile-up on spectral fits
• 6. EPIC Out-of-Time (OoT) events. The percentage of OoT events is given by the mode dependent ratio of readout time and integration time
• 7. List of EPIC event patterns
• 8. RGS In-orbit Performance
• 9. Wavelength and energy ranges covered by the chips of RGS 1 and 2 for an on-axis source in first order. Due to the scattering, the chip boundaries do not cause sharp features in the effective area. Values in brackets correspond to the non-operational chains.
• 10. Wavelength ranges covered by the RGS in different grating orders
• 11. RGS science data acquisition modes
• 12. RGS1 detector defects and corresponding wavelengths for on-axis sources.
• 13. RGS2 detector defects and corresponding wavelengths for on-axis sources. Since the introduction of single-node operations, the node boundary that applies between the two nodes of the RGS1 CCDs is no longer relevant in RGS2.
• 14. OM characteristics - an overview
• 15. The science data acquisition modes of OM
• 16. OM exposure time constraints
• 17. OM on-board PSF FWHM in different lenticular filters
• 18. OM optical elements
• 19. Zeropoints for various OM filters
• 20. OM UV grism sensitivity [detected flux: erg cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ Å$^{-1}$ ] for different detection levels. The Visible grism is one order of magnitude more sensitive than the UV one.
• 21. OM count rates [$10^{-4}$ counts s$^{-1}$ ] as function of spectral type for stars with $m_V~=~20$ mag under the assumption of a zero deadtime detector
• 22. Limiting magnitudes$^1$ for a 5-$\sigma$ detection in 1000 s
• 23. Observed limiting magnitudes$^1$ for a 5-sigma detection (scaled to 1000s)
• 24. Levels of different OM background contributors
• 25. The $m_V$ brightness limits for all OM filters. An A0 type star spectrum is assumed.
• 26. Comparison of XMM-Newton with other X-ray satellites
• 27. Orbital Parameters of XMM-Newton for March 2009 (last update: June 2008)