ESA Open Invitation to Tender AO9592
Open Date: 19/12/2018
Closing Date: 01/03/2019 13:00:00

Status: ISSUED
Reference Nr.: 18.167.07
Prog. Ref.: SRE Research
Budget Ref.: E/0429-03 – SRE Research
Special Prov.: AT+BE+CH+CZ+DE+DK+EE+ES+FR+FI+GR+HU+IT+IE+LU+NO+NL+PL+PT+RO+SE+GB+CA+SI
Tender Type: C
Price Range: 50-100 KEURO
Products: Ground Segment / Mission Operations / Other
Techology Domains: Mission Operation and Ground Data Systems / Mission Operations / Operation Support Processes
Establishment: ESAC
Directorate: Directorate of Science
Department: Operations Department
Division: Mission Operations Division
Contract Officer: Delgado, Javier
Industrial Policy Measure: N/A – Not apply
Last Update Date: 19/12/2018
Update Reason: Tender issue

The activity consists of calculating the count rate, or upper limit to the count rate, for each beam in all of the XMM-Newton pointed and slew observations. These values shall be stored in a form such that they may be rapidly retrieved and served to the user. Dueto the good spatial resolution of the XMM-Newton mirrors the number of independent points that need to be calculated is very large,implying that the final data storage area will also be large. As XMM-Newton will generate by far the largest dataset, it is expected that the solution built during this project will be easily extendable to other missions, with lower spatial resolution, such as ROSAT and EXOSAT. The software and databases developed will be integrated within the XMM-Newton science archive so that they can be continuously updated as new observations are processed and ingested into the archive.