Attention XMM Users!

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Not satisfied with having conquered the 17th century canon, the Astrophysical Data System has a new (to me) feature...
Now do you believe in elves?
Tom leads today, talking some more about Intermediate Mass Black Holes and possible evidence for black holes in globulars.
XMM out of contact. Observations suggest it is intact, signal from telescope has been detected, attempts to recover control underway. XMM loss of contact - ESA press release

Hi Steinn,
The link you want for the XMM proposal to the Senior Review Panel is
http://heasarc.nasa.gov/docs/xmm/senior/2008/senior.html
I can somewhat understand why NASA would choose to trim GO funding over cutting mission operations. Though their explanation of XMM's weakness is the absolutely prototypical lazy reviewer response: "the scientific case for continued funding....was not compelling." XMM deserves a more thoughtful explanation of why their funding should be cut (most of the other missions had some thoughtful discussion).
Cheers,
Craig

By Craig Heinke (not verified) on 04 Jun 2008 #permalink