Open AccessThe XMM‐Newton Serendipitous Sky Survey
Author(s) -
Watson Mike
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
astronomy & geophysics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.168
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1468-4004
pISSN - 1366-8781
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-4004.2007.48530.x
Subject(s) - sky , square (algebra) , astronomy , physics , sensitivity (control systems) , resource (disambiguation) , object (grammar) , astrophysics , survey research , geography , computer science , mathematics , geometry , engineering , sociology , computer network , electronic engineering , artificial intelligence , socioeconomics
The 2XMM catalogue, from the XMM-Newton Serendipitous Sky Survey, has recently been released. Containing almost 200 000 sources, from around 360 square degrees of the sky covered by XMM-Newton so far, this is the largest X-ray catalogue. The combination of large survey size and sensitivity makes it invaluable for generating large, well-defined samples of various types of astrophysical object, expl...