PV Targets

Following the successful commissioning of spacecraft and payload, XRISM will undergo a 6-months Performance Verification (PV) Phase. The goal of this phase is to showcase the XRISM transformational science, while providing the scientific community worldwide with a comprehensive set of experiments thoroughly verifying the capability of the mission to fulfill all its scientific goals.

Data of the PV phase observations are reserved to the members of the XRISM Science Team, as well as to a small number of "XRISM Guest Scientists" to be appointed by the XRISM Participating Agencies by the end of 2021. Data will be made public following the rules holding for all XRISM proprietary data.

Category	Target	Exposure (ks)	Priority	Remarks
GC	4U 1916-053	50	A
GC	4U 1624-490	50	A
GC	GX 13+1	30	A
GC	Cyg X-1	100	A
GC	SS 433	80	A
GC	Cyg X-3	40	A
GC	Cen X-3	90	A
GC	Eta Carinae	100	A
GC	V834 Cen	100	A
GC	GT Mus	90	A	ToO
GC	SS Cygni (flare)	100	A	ToO
GC	T Cor Bor	150	A	ToO
GC	2S 0921-630	80	C
GC	Cir X-1	40	C
GC	Vela X-1	70	C
GC	SS Cygni (quiescence)	100	C
GD	SN1006 pointing 1	20	A
GD	SN1006 pointing 2	60	A
GD	SN1987A	100	A
GD	Cygnus Loop pointing 1	50	A
GD	Cygnus Loop pointing 2	30	A
GD	Cygnus Loop pointing 3	20	A
GD	Tycho SNR pointing 1	75	A
GD	Tycho SNR pointing 2	75	A
GD	W49B pointing 1	100	A
GD	W49B pointing 2	100	A
GD	Cas A	50	A
GD	Galactic Center pointing 1	100	A
GD	Galactic Center pointing 2	100	A
GD	GX 13+1	60	A
GD	GX 340+0	150	A
GD	Comet	100	A
GD	SN1006 pointing 3	80	C
GD	Galactic Center pointing 3	100	C
GD	Cygnus Loop pointing 4	40	C
GD	Tycho SNR pointing 3	20	C
GD	Tycho SNR pointing 4	20	C
GD	Tycho SNR pointing 5	20	C
GD	Tycho SNR pointing 6	20	C
GD	Tycho SNR pointing 7	20	C
GD	Kepler SNR	50	C
GD	3C397	100	C
GD	RCW86 pointing 1	100	C
GD	RCW86 pointing 2	50	C
GD	Cyg X-2	240	C
GD	Jupiter	100	C
GD	Carina Nebula	30	C
EGC	Centaurus A	100	A
EGC	Circinus Galaxy	100	A
EGC	MCG-6-30-15	100	A
EGC	NGC 1365 pointing 1	125	A
EGC	NGC 1365 pointing 2	125	A
EGC	NGC 3783	200	A
ECG	NGC 4151 pointing 1	45	A
EGC	NGC 4151 pointing 2	45	A
EGC	NGC 4151 pointing 3	45	A
EGC	NGC 4151 pointing 4	45	A
EGC	PDS456	150	A
EGC	IRASF05189	100	C
EGC	M81*	100	C
EGC	Mkn 766	80	C
EGC	NGC 4388	100	C
EGD	M82	50	A
EGD	NGC 4636	100	A
EGD	Perseus Cluster pointing 1	50	A
EGD	Perseus Cluster pointing 2	50	A
EGD	Perseus Cluster pointing 3	80	A
EGD	Perseus Cluster pointing 4	100	A
EGD	Virgo Cluster/M87 pointing 1	100	A
EGD	Virgo Cluster/M87 pointing 2	150	A
EGD	Virgo Cluster/M87 pointing 3	100	A
EGD	Virgo Cluster/M87 pointing 4	150	A
EGD	Coma Cluster pointing 1	200	A
EGD	Centaurus Cluster	150	A
EGD	Abell 2029 pointing 1	250	A
EGD	Abell 2029 pointing 2	50	A
EGD	Abell 2029 pointing 3	20	A
EGD	Perseus Cluster pointing 5	200	C
EGD	Abell 3667	180	C
EGD	M51	70	C
EGD	Coma Cluster pointing 2	100	C
EGD	NGC 5044	100	C

Note:

Priority “A” targets will be given the highest scheduling priority.

“C” priority targets that are not observed by the end of the PV phase will not be automatically done later in the mission.

The accurate aim position of each observation will be announced soon.

Category name: GC stands for Galactic Compact, GD for Galactic Diffuse, EGC for Extra-Galactic Compact, and EGD for Extra-Galactic Diffuse.