XMM-Newton Slew Survey catalogue, XMMSL1 Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Saxton R.D.
  2. Read A.M.
  3. Esquej P.
  4. Freyberg M.J.
  5. Altieri B.
  6. Bermejo D.
  7. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We report on the production of a large area, shallow, sky survey, from XMM-Newton slews. The great collecting area of the mirrors coupled with the high quantum efficiency of the EPIC detectors have made XMM-Newton the most sensitive X-ray observatory flown to date. We use data taken with the EPIC-pn camera during slewing manoeuvres to perform an X-ray survey of the sky. Data from 218 slews have been subdivided into small images and source searched. This has been done in three distinct energy bands; a soft (0.2-2keV) band, a hard (2-12keV) band and a total XMM-Newton band (0.2-12keV). Detected sources, have been quality controlled to remove artifacts and a catalogue has been drawn from the remaining sources. A "full" catalogue, containing 4710 detections and a "clean" catalogue containing 2692 sources have been produced, from 14% of the sky. In the hard X-ray band (2-12keV) 257 sources are detected in the clean catalogue to a flux limit of 4x10^-12^erg/s/cm^2^. The flux limit for the soft (0.2-2keV) band is 6x10^-13^erg/s/cm^2^ and for the total (0.2-12keV) band is 1.2x10^-12^erg/s/cm^2^. The source positions are shown to have an uncertainty of 8" (1{sigma} confidence).

Keywords
  1. surveys
  2. x-ray-sources
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2008A&A...480..611S
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History

2008-06-06T15:30:31Z
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2008-06-06T15:30:31Z
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