Getting Started

The XMM optical/UV data was provided to MAST starting in 2006. Updates are obtained weekly? from the Guest Observer Facility at HEASARC. The data are accessible using the XMM Search Form. The search results page also has links to the XMM preview pages which allow individual images to be displayed as gif images or using Aladin..

• Description of the Optical Monitor
• Processing OM Mosaics

  Users interested in XMM x-ray data should go to the ESA XMM-Newton Science Operations Center

  Other links of interest:

  • Optical Monitor Home page
  • Op tical Monitor Information
  • The XMM-Newton optical/UV monitor telescope Mason, K.O. et.al. A&A 365:36.
  • The XMM Guest Observer Facility
  • XMM x-ray data
  • OM Calibration data
  • SAS software for the analys is of OM data (notably the OMICHAIN task). The OM software is bundled with the analysis tools for the X-ray instruments.
  • SAS Users Guide (Chapter 6 des cribes the OM processing.