XMM-Newton Trainee Project 2005

Introduction

In 2005 six young scientists participated once again in a trainee programme within the XMM-Newton project. The project took place at the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC), contributing to the XMM-Newton satellite mission.

The project was split into three project lines addressing different topics such as XMM-Newton timing data anlysis, calibration investigations and the processing of XMM-Newton slew data.

Detailed reports will be presented in the proceedings of the "The X-ray Universe 2005" Symposium and are also available here:

• Monitoring of the EPIC Cameras at the XMM-Newton SOC (pdf format)
• XMM-Newton Timing Monitoring at ESAC (pdf format)
• The XMM-Newton Slew Survey: Towards the XMMSL1 Catalogue (pdf format)
• Extended Sources in the XMM-Newton Slew Survey (pdf format)

Trainees

The trainees are from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain), the University of Tuebingen (Germany) and the University of Warwick (England).

Some participating students have written a summary of their time here including personal details & goals, the work they have been doing as part of the project and some statements about life as a trainee at ESA.

Read the summaries here

Further Details

Read some Quotes from the trainees regarding the training course and its location.

Read about the Tutors working with the students.