Christian Erd, Fred A. Jansen, Jon Brumfitt, Marco Beijersbergen, Philippe Gondoin, Hassan Siddiqui, Jorgo Bakker, Peter Videler, Lalit Jalota (Astrophysics Devision, European Space Agency, Space Science Department)
Reference URL: http://astro.estec.esa.nl/XMM
The XMM Science Operations Team has developed a detailed simulator to describe the performance of the scientific payload on-board European Space Agency's X-Ray Mission XMM. This simulator was written in modern programming languages (C++ and F90). Its application is not limited to simulations of instrumental data, but the simulator also plays a key role in calibrating the instruments, and as such it will become an integral part of the XMM analysis system.