Communication in the European project XMM2Athena

The XMM2Athena project is funded by the EU and brings together members of the XMM-Newton ground science and Athena communities, as well as research staff from the X-ray science community, to develop and test new methods and software to observe the X-ray Universe in near real-time and identify multi-wavelength measurements of sources detected by the XMM-Newton satellite and determine their nature. This is done by using advanced machine learning methods and by studying the faintest, hitherto undetected sources using innovative detection algorithms. These methods will be integrated into the Athena software, which is currently under development, and these newly detected and identified sources will improve our preparation for Athena observations of the X-ray Universe.