The SSC (see Appendix B) runs the SAS reduction pipelines on all the XMM-Newton ODF. Each dataset is screened to verify its scientific quality and identify potential processing problems The SSC pipeline (PPS) output includes a wide range of top level scientific products, such as X-ray cameras event lists, source lists, multi-band images, background-subtracted spectra and light curves for sufficiently bright individual sources, as well as the results of a cross-correlation with a wide sample of source catalogues and with the matching ROSAT field.
The PPS products are made available to the PI of an XMM-Newton proposal together with the ODF files of her/his observation.
The user is referred to Data Products Interface Control Document and Data Products Specification Document for a detailed description of the PPS products content and format.