Name: 37th XMM-SSC Consortium Meeting 2026
Start: 2026-03-17T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-03-19T14:40:00+01:00
Location: Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP)

37th XMM-SSC Consortium Meeting 2026

from Tuesday, 17 March 2026 (09:00) to Thursday, 19 March 2026 (14:40)

Monday, 16 March 2026
Tuesday, 17 March 2026

11:30 Lunch option
Lunch option
11:30 - 13:30
Room: Astro Bistro
13:30 Session 1
Session 1
13:30 - 15:55
Room: Lecture Hall, Maria Margaretha Kirch Building
Contributions

13:30 Welcome - Natalie Webb (IRAP) Axel Schwope (AIP)

13:50 XMM-Newton mission status - Felix Fuerst (ESA/ESAC)

14:15 Data exchanges between SOC & SSC - John Hoar

14:35 SAS status and development - Aitor Ibarra Ibaibarriaga (Telespazio UK for ESA (XMM-Newton SOC ESAC/ESA))

15:05 Pipeline status and summary of the bulk reprocessing - Pedro Rodriguez

15:25 OM status - Simon Rosen

15:40 EPIC MOS status - Jean Ballet (AIM, CEA Saclay)
15:55 Coffee break - Photo
Coffee break - Photo
15:55 - 16:25
16:25 Session 2
Session 2
16:25 - 18:10
Room: Lecture Hall, Maria Margaretha Kirch Building
Contributions

16:25 RGS status - Aitor Ibarra Ibaibarriaga (Telespazio UK for ESA (XMM-Newton SOC ESAC/ESA))

16:40 EPIC pn status - Michael Freyberg (MPE Garching, Germany)

16:55 NASA XMMGOF status and activities - Brendan Perry

17:15 The XCatDB status and prospects - Laurent Michel (ObAS)

17:30 The source-detector's view on 5XMM - Iris Traulsen (Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP))

17:50 5XMM-DR15 - Mickaël Coriat (IRAP)
18:20 Babelsberg tour (group 1)
Babelsberg tour (group 1)
18:20 - 19:00
Room: Babelsberg Campus

20:00 Meeting dinner
Meeting dinner
20:00 - 22:00
Wednesday, 18 March 2026
09:15 Session 3
Session 3
09:15 - 10:55
Room: Lecture Hall, Maria Margaretha Kirch Building
Contributions

09:15 Agent-Ready “Mini-SAS” Microservices for Language-Driven X-ray Data Analysis - Aitor Ibarra Ibaibarriaga (Telespazio UK for ESA (XMM-Newton SOC ESAC/ESA))

09:35 Highly Variable Sources in the XMM Slew Survey - Robbie Webbe (IRAP, Toulouse, France)

09:55 Extreme ends of AGN variability - Sabina Bahic

10:15 Analysing HETDEX spectra from XMM detections - Hema Priya Rajangam

10:35 A XRISM view of chemical enrichment in galaxy clusters - François Mernier (IRAP)
10:55 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:55 - 11:25
Room: Maria Margaretha Kirch Building
10:55 - 11:25
Room: Lecture Hall, Maria Margaretha Kirch Building
Contributions

10:55 Poster viewing

11:10 The SRG/eROSITA upper limits of the Galactic Western hemisphere - Dusán Tubín (Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics, AIP)
11:25 Session 4
Session 4
11:25 - 13:00
Room: Lecture Hall, Maria Margaretha Kirch Building
Contributions

11:25 Quantifying the Intrinsic scatter in magnetic activity of cool stars using wide binaries - Desmond Dsouza (Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam)

11:45 Serendipitous Searches for Isolated Neutron Stars in XMM-Newton Catalogues - Adriana Mancini Pires (CLPS/CAS)

12:05 Characterising isolated neutron star candidates from eROSITA with XMM-Newton - Jan Kurpas (Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP))

12:25 X-ray Periodicities in the Gamma Cas Analogues - Robbie Webbe (IRAP, Toulouse, France)

12:45 Wrap up - Natalie Webb (IRAP)
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Astro Bistro, Maria Margaretha Kirch Building

13:45 Babelsberg tour (group 2)
Babelsberg tour (group 2)
13:45 - 14:35
Room: Babelsberg Campus

14:00 Telegrafenberg tour (group 1)
Telegrafenberg tour (group 1)
14:00 - 16:00
14:40
14:40 - 16:20
Room: Lecture Hall, Maria Margaretha Kirch Building
Contributions

14:40 Overview of SAS releases - SAS 23 and SAS 24 contents - Richard Saxton (Telespazio UK for ESA (XMM-Newton SOC ESAC/ESA))

15:00 Status of code release - Jari Kajava (Serco for ESA/ESAC)

15:20 SAS processing pipelines - Jose Vicente Perea Calderon (ESAC)

15:40 EPIC-pn developments - Michael Freyberg (MPE Garching, Germany)

16:00 Running SAS on Mac ARM chips - Aitor Ibarra Ibaibarriaga (Telespazio UK for ESA (XMM-Newton SOC ESAC/ESA))
16:20 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:20 - 16:40
Room: Maria Margaretha Kirch Building
16:40
16:40 - 18:15
Room: Lecture Hall, Maria Margaretha Kirch Building
Contributions

16:40 SAS development environment - José Marcos

17:00 Source detection - Iris Traulsen (Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP))

17:20 ESAS updates and future plans - Brendan Perry

17:40 SAS and Python - Ryan Tanner

18:00 Wrap-up and good-bye - Richard Saxton (Telespazio UK for ESA (XMM-Newton SOC ESAC/ESA))
18:25 Telegrafenberg tour (group 2)
Telegrafenberg tour (group 2)
18:25 - 19:45
Thursday, 19 March 2026

09:00

09:00 - 12:30
Room: Meeting Room "Behind the Moon", Maria Margaretha Kirch Building

12:30 Lunch option
Lunch option
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Astro Bistro, Maria Margaretha Kirch Building

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