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Description
This table contains the summary results of an analysis of the individual observations (24 archival raster observations) of a deep XMM-Newton survey of the Local Group spiral galaxy M 33. The authors detected a total of 350 sources with fluxes (in the 0.2 - 4.5 keV energy band) in the range from 6.7 x 10<sup>-16</sup> to 1.5 x 10<sup>-11</sup> erg/cm<sup>2</sup>/s. This comprehensive study considered flux variability, spectral characteristics, and classification of the detected objects. Thirty-nine objects in the catalog are new sources, while 311 were already detected in a previous analysis of most of the same data using combined images. The authors present improved positions of these sources, ans also systematically searched for flux variability on time scales of hours to months or years. The detected variability was then used to classify 8 new X-ray binary candidates in M 33. Together with the hardness ratio method and cross-correlation with optical, infrared, and radio data, the authors also classified or confirmed previous classification of 25 supernova remnants and candidates, 2 X-ray binaries, and 11 super-soft source candidates (7 of which are new SSS candidates). In addition, they classified 13 active galactic nuclei and background galaxies, 6 stars, and 23 foreground star candidates in the direction of M 33. A further 206 objects are classified as 'hard', approximately half of which are sources intrinsic to M 33. The relative contribution of the classified XRB and SSS in M 33 is now comparable to M 31. The luminosity distribution of SNRs in both spiral galaxies is almost the same, although the number of the detected SNRs in M 33 remains much higher. This table was created by the HEASARC in March 2007 based on the CDS table J/A+A/448/1247 file table4.dat. The CDS has another table which lists the properties of the sources detected on an observation-by-observation basis which is not included as part of this Browse table but is available at <a href="ftp://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/pub/cats/J/A+A/448/1247/table5.dat.gz">ftp://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/pub/cats/J/A+A/448/1247/table5.dat.gz</a> This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
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