XMM-Newton RPS Users Manual

List of Figures

• 1. Screen shot of the XRPS home page.
• 2. Screen shot of the XRPS signup page.
• 3. Illustration of the concept of an intermediate memory for proposal information storage that has not yet been submitted into the proposal database.
• 4. Screen shot of the top-level page containing details about an observing programme: the so-called ``Proposal Details'' page. This is the first page arranged in the frames setup typical of XRPS forms.
• 5. Screen shot of the XRPS navigation tree. Observations are entered as directories carrying the first 8 characters of the object name. Each exposure is identified by a running index within the observation and the name of the instrument with which it is associated. If an exposure is deleted from the list, it will leave an empty slot. Exposures are not renumbered after a deletion.
• 6. Screen shot of the ``PI personal information'' page.
• 7. Screen shot of an ``Observation'' page (top part).
• 8. Screen shot of an ``Observation'' page (bottom part).
• 9. Screen shot of the ``Time Constraints'' page in which entries for time-constrained observations must be made.
• 10. Form to create standard exposures of all five XMM-Newton X-ray instruments in one go before calculating the exposure times
• 11. Form to create standard exposures of all five XMM-Newton X-ray instruments in one go after calculating the exposure times
• 12. Screen shot of an EPIC MOS exposure form sheet for a ``Full Frame'' imaging exposure with a length of 124623s and an offset with respect to the previous exposure of 0s. The ``THIN FILTER'' optical blocking filter was chosen.
• 13. Screen shot of an EPIC pn exposure form sheet for a ``Full Frame'' imaging exposure with a length of 123034s and an offset with respect to the previous exposure of 0s. The ``THIN FILTER'' optical blocking filter was chosen.
• 14. Screen shot of an RGS exposure form sheet for a 124906s exposure and an offset with respect to the previous exposure of 0s of RGS1 in the recommended mode for standard ``Spectroscopy''.
• 15. Screen shot of an RGS-1 setting form. Note, that CCD 7 is not available.
• 16. Screen shot of an OM exposure form sheet for an exposure with the U filter (filter wheel position 3), in imaging mode, using RGS as prime instrument, with 1000s exposure time for each of the five sub-exposures comprising the default configuration of an exposure in the "EPIC/RGS Image" mode.
• 17. Screen shot of an OM exposure details page. Entries for one science window and one FAST window have already been committed to memory; those for a second FAST window are still in the input fields. Committal of this will add a third entry in the upper part of the form. Up to 5 windows can be defined
• 18. Screen shot of a proposal that has not passed the formal XRPS check. Below the observation and exposure summaries appear the error reports. In this case the EPIC MOS 1 exposure is exceeding the allowed observation time of 1260000s by 5377s. On the other hand the RGS 2 exposure is using less than 97% of the total observation time available. An error is issued as well because the exposure duration of an OM exposure is outside the allowed range. In all cases the user has to go back and change the exposure time. This can be done easily following the link at the end of the error report line. A warning is issued because the Abstract field has not been completed.
• 19. Screen shot of the page generated with the ``Technical Evaluation'' button.
• 20. Final form to submit a proposal