X-ray Multi-Mirror (XMM) Optical Monitor images Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. ESA
  2. Published by
    Space Telescope Science Institute Archive
Abstract
The Newton X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission (XMM) was launched in December, 1999 with a projected  lifetime of 10 years. Although intended primarily as an X-ray observatory, XMM included a small but powerful optical/UV 30 cm telescope co-aligned with the X-ray telescopes for contemporaneous observations. The modified Ritchey-Chretien telescope is capable of detecting 24th magnitude sources in its 17 arcmin field of view. It provides images in the 160-600nm wave band with 1 arcsec resolution. MAST is serving a OM Mosaic product that uses a pipeline described by Kuntz et. al. OMCat: Catalog of Serendipitous Sources Detected with the XMM-Newton Optical Monitor PASP, 120:740-758 
Keywords
  1. Observational astronomy
  2. Optical Astronomy
  3. Ultraviolet Astronomy
See also HTML
http://archive.stsci.edu/xmm-om/
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://mast.stsci/siap/xmm-om

Access

IVOA Simple Image Search SIAP
For use with a VO-enabled image processor (e.g., Aladin).
http://archive.stsci.edu/siap/search.php?id=XMM-OM&

History

2012-02-02T18:36:16Z
Resource record created

Contact

Name
Archive Branch, STScI
E-Mail
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