{"id":12492,"date":"2017-06-07T10:59:14","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T10:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/?p=12492"},"modified":"2017-06-07T10:59:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T10:59:14","slug":"xmm-newton-slew-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/xmm-newton-slew-tracks\/","title":{"rendered":"XMM-Newton slew tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12493\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12493\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12493\" src=\"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/XMM-Newton_slew_tracks_node_full_image_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"350\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/XMM-Newton_slew_tracks_node_full_image_2.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/XMM-Newton_slew_tracks_node_full_image_2-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12493\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: ESA\/XMM-Newton\/A. Read\/R. Saxton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This blue \u2018ball of string\u2019 actually records 2114 movements made by ESA\u2019s XMM-Newton space telescope as it shifted its gaze from one X-ray object to another between August 2001 and December 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Orbiting in space since 1999, XMM-Newton is studying high-energy phenomena in the Universe, such as black holes, neutron stars, pulsars and stellar winds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Even when moving its focus between objects, the space telescope collects scientific data, revealing X-ray sources across the entire sky. After correcting for overlaps between slews, 84% of the sky has now been covered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The plot is in galactic coordinates such that the centre of the plot corresponds to the centre of the Milky Way. The slew paths pass predominantly through the<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Orbital_pole\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ecliptic poles<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, indicated by the density of overlapping slew paths to the top left and bottom right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The image was created as part of the XMM-Newton Slew Survey Catalogue<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cosmos.esa.int\/web\/xmm-newton\/xmmsl2-ug\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">release in March 2017<\/a>,<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> and which was featured as our<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinimages\/Images\/2017\/05\/Sources_in_XMM-Newton_s_second_slew_catalogue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Space Science Image of the Week last month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cosmos.esa.int\/web\/xmm-newton\/2017-symposium\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This week<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, many scientists studying the X-ray universe are meeting to discuss the latest in high-energy astrophysics, including discoveries from current X-ray missions, as well as expectations of future missions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Over 5000 papers have been published on XMM-Newton results to date. Scientists are also looking forward to the next generation of X-ray satellite, such as ESA\u2019s<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Science\/Athena_to_study_the_hot_and_energetic_Universe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Athena<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, the Advanced Telescope for High-ENergy Astrophysics, which is expected to be launched towards the end of the next decade.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blue \u2018ball of string\u2019 actually records 2114 movements made by ESA\u2019s XMM-Newton space telescope as it shifted its gaze from one X-ray object to another between August 2001 and December 2014. Orbiting in space since 1999, XMM-Newton is studying high-energy phenomena in the Universe, such as black holes, neutron stars, pulsars and stellar winds. 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