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, March 17, 2026 (9:00 AM) to Thursday, March 19, 2026 (2:40 PM)

Monday, March 16, 2026
Tuesday, March 17, 2026

11:30 AM Lunch option
Lunch option
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Room: Astro Bistro
1:30 PM Session 1
Session 1
1:30 PM - 3:55 PM
Room: Lecture Hall, Maria Margaretha Kirch Building
Contributions

1:30 PM Welcome - Natalie Webb (IRAP) Axel Schwope (AIP)

1:50 PM XMM-Newton mission status - Felix Fuerst (ESA/ESAC)

2:15 PM Data exchanges between SOC & SSC - John Hoar

2:35 PM SAS status and development - Aitor Ibarra Ibaibarriaga (Telespazio UK for ESA (XMM-Newton SOC ESAC/ESA))

3:05 PM Pipeline status and summary of the bulk reprocessing - Pedro Rodriguez

3:25 PM OM status - Simon Rosen

3:40 PM EPIC MOS status - Jean Ballet (AIM, CEA Saclay)
3:55 PM Coffee break - Photo
Coffee break - Photo
3:55 PM - 4:25 PM
4:25 PM Session 2
Session 2
4:25 PM - 6:10 PM
Room: Lecture Hall, Maria Margaretha Kirch Building
Contributions

4:25 PM RGS status - Aitor Ibarra Ibaibarriaga (Telespazio UK for ESA (XMM-Newton SOC ESAC/ESA))

4:40 PM EPIC pn status - Michael Freyberg (MPE Garching, Germany)

4:55 PM NASA XMMGOF status and activities - Brendan Perry

5:15 PM The XCatDB status and prospects - Laurent Michel (ObAS)

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

5:50 PM 5XMM-DR15 - Mickaël Coriat (IRAP)
6:20 PM Babelsberg tour (group 1)
Babelsberg tour (group 1)
6:20 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Babelsberg Campus

8:00 PM Meeting dinner
Meeting dinner
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Wednesday, March 18, 2026
9:15 AM Session 3
Session 3
9:15 AM - 10:55 AM
Room: Lecture Hall, Maria Margaretha Kirch Building
Contributions

9:15 AM Agent-Ready “Mini-SAS” Microservices for Language-Driven X-ray Data Analysis - Aitor Ibarra Ibaibarriaga (Telespazio UK for ESA (XMM-Newton SOC ESAC/ESA))

9:35 AM Highly Variable Sources in the XMM Slew Survey - Robbie Webbe (IRAP, Toulouse, France)

9:55 AM Extreme ends of AGN variability - Sabina Bahic

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

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

10:55 AM Poster viewing

11:10 AM The SRG/eROSITA upper limits of the Galactic Western hemisphere - Dusán Tubín (Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics, AIP)
11:25 AM Session 4
Session 4
11:25 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Lecture Hall, Maria Margaretha Kirch Building
Contributions

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

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

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

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

12:45 PM Wrap up - Natalie Webb (IRAP)
1:00 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Astro Bistro, Maria Margaretha Kirch Building

1:45 PM Babelsberg tour (group 2)
Babelsberg tour (group 2)
1:45 PM - 2:35 PM
Room: Babelsberg Campus

2:00 PM Telegrafenberg tour (group 1)
Telegrafenberg tour (group 1)
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
2:40 PM
2:40 PM - 4:20 PM
Room: Lecture Hall, Maria Margaretha Kirch Building
Contributions

2:40 PM Overview of SAS releases - SAS 23 and SAS 24 contents - Richard Saxton (Telespazio UK for ESA (XMM-Newton SOC ESAC/ESA))

3:00 PM Status of code release - Jari Kajava (Serco for ESA/ESAC)

3:20 PM SAS processing pipelines - Jose Vicente Perea Calderon (ESAC)

3:40 PM EPIC-pn developments - Michael Freyberg (MPE Garching, Germany)

4:00 PM Running SAS on Mac ARM chips - Aitor Ibarra Ibaibarriaga (Telespazio UK for ESA (XMM-Newton SOC ESAC/ESA))
4:20 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
4:20 PM - 4:40 PM
Room: Maria Margaretha Kirch Building
4:40 PM
4:40 PM - 6:15 PM
Room: Lecture Hall, Maria Margaretha Kirch Building
Contributions

4:40 PM SAS development environment - José Marcos

5:00 PM Source detection - Iris Traulsen (Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP))

5:20 PM ESAS updates and future plans - Brendan Perry

5:40 PM SAS and Python - Ryan Tanner

6:00 PM Wrap-up and good-bye - Richard Saxton (Telespazio UK for ESA (XMM-Newton SOC ESAC/ESA))
6:25 PM Telegrafenberg tour (group 2)
Telegrafenberg tour (group 2)
6:25 PM - 7:45 PM
Thursday, March 19, 2026

9:00 AM

9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Meeting Room "Behind the Moon", Maria Margaretha Kirch Building

12:30 PM Lunch option
Lunch option
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Astro Bistro, Maria Margaretha Kirch Building

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