XMM/XAssist ivo://nasa.heasarc/xmmxassist NASA/GSFC HEASARC Ptak, Griffiths 2026-05-08 NASA/GSFC HEASARC help desk heasarc-vo at athena.gsfc.nasa.gov Survey Source This database table contains the latest XMM-Newton XAssist source list. XAssist is a NASA-funded project for the automation of X-ray astrophysics, with emphasis on galaxies. It is capable of data reprocessing, source detection, and preliminary spatial, temporal, and spectral analysis for all sources with sufficient counts. The bulk of the system is written in Python, which in turn drives underlying software to process the XMM-Newton data. Pipelines running on XMM-Newton observations of galaxies have generated the source list which comprises this HEASARC table. The pipeline also includes fields requested by users for various projects, most notably observations of a sample of quasars and several deep field observations have been processed. Note that the pipline processing is completely automated; therefore, users should visually inspect the results of any queries. This table was first created by the HEASARC in July 2005 based on the XMM source list available at the XAssist website. In December 2012, the HEASARC switched over to using the "pipeline5" XMM source list. It is updated on a weekly basis when and if the XAssist source list file at <a href="https://asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/xassist/pipeline5/xmm/master_srclist.csv">https://asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/xassist/pipeline5/xmm/master_srclist.csv</a> is updated. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC . 2003ASPC..295..465P https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/xmmxassist.html Catalog Research served-by HEASARC TAP https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/xamin/vo/cone?showoffsets&table=xmmxassist& GET text/xml 180 99999 true 304.290859254 -88.1934201551 0.0166666666666667 https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/xamin/vo/tap https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/W3Browse/getvotable.pl?name=xmmxassist GET text/xml https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/W3Browse/w3query.pl?tablehead=name=heasarc_xmmxassist&Action=More+Options&Action=Parameter+Search&ConeAdd=1 XMM-NEWTON 0.0166666666666667 X-ray public xmmxassist XMM-Newton XAssist Source List name Source Designation meta.id;meta.main char nullable html_file Link to HTML File with Additional Information char nullable ra Right Ascension degree pos.eq.ra;meta.main double nullable dec Declination degree pos.eq.dec;meta.main double nullable counts Counts ct phot;em.X-ray double nullable counts_error Error in Counts 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