The Optical Monitor Catalog of serendipitous sources (OMCat) contains entries for every source detected in the publicly available XMM-Newton Optical Monitor (OM) images taken in the imaging mode. Since the OM records data simultaneously with the X-ray telescopes on XMM-Newton, it typically produces images in one or more near-UV/optical bands for every pointing of the observatory. As of the beginning of 2014, the data in the public archive covered roughly 0.5% of the sky in 3425 fields. The OMCat is not dominated by sources previously undetected at other wavelengths; the bulk of objects have optical counterparts. However, the OMCat can be used to extend optical or X-ray spectral energy distributions for known objects into the ultraviolet, to study at higher angular resolution objects detected with GALEX, or to find high-Galactic-latitude objects of interest for UV spectroscopy. Differences between the current OMCat and the previous version of the OMCat (which was designated as XMMOMOBJ) are improved coordinates, improved quality flags, and a reduced number of spurious sources. The OM reduction was done with the standard ESAS software, with post-processing to apply the coordinate corrections in a more consistent manner. There is a major change in the way the data are represented in the table. In the previous XMMOMOBJ table a separate row was generated for each filter. In the current XMMOMCAT table each observation of each object generates only a single row regardless of how many filters were used. Unused filters have nulls while filters where the object is not detected have nulls for the detection parameters but a non-zero value for exposure. The table includes information for each filter and averaged information for the object as a whole. Only filters in which the object was detected are used in the averages. The parameters in this table comprise two sets: parameters describing the detection overall including id's and mean values, and values specific to the individual bands. There are three possible situations for the band data: (1) If there was no exposure in that band, then all fields for that band will be null. (2) If there was some exposure in the band but the object was not detected in that band, then the exposure field will give the actual exposure, but all of the other fields for that band will be null. (3) If the object was detected, then all of the fields for the band should be filled in. The filters included are V, B, U, UVW1, UVM2, UVW2 and white (i.e., unfiltered). The original table (formerly known as XMMOMOBJ) was created by the HEASARC in March 2008, based on a table supplied by the authors. The XMMOMCAT version was generated and ingested in February 2014 using a program which concatenated the objects detected in processing each observation. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
XMM-Newton Optical Monitor Chandra Deep Field-South UV Catalog
Short Name:
XMMOMCDFS
Date:
01 Nov 2024
Publisher:
NASA/GSFC HEASARC
Description:
The XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has performed repeated observations of the Chandra Deep Field-South (CDFS) in 33 epochs (2001 - 2010) through the XMM-CDFS Deep Survey (Comastri et al. 2011, A&A, 526, L9). During the X-ray observations, the XMM-Newton Optical Monitor (XMM-OM) targeted the central 17 x 17 arcmin<sup>2</sup> region of the X-ray field of view, providing simultaneous optical/UV coverage of the CDFS. The resulting set of data can be taken into account to build an XMM-OM catalog of the CDFS, filling the UV spectral coverage between the optical surveys and GALEX observations. This table contains the UV catalog of the XMM-CDFS Deep Survey. Its main purpose is to provide complementary UV average photometric measurements of known optical/UV sources in the CDFS, taking advantage of the unique characteristics of the survey. The data reduction is intended also to improve the standard source detection on individual observations, by cataloguing faint sources through the stacking of their exposure images. The authors reprocessed the XMM-OM data of the survey and stacked the exposures from consecutive observations using the standard SAS tools to process the data obtained during single observations. Average measurements of detections with SAS good quality flags from individual observations and from stacked images have been joined to compile the catalogue. Sources have been validated through the cross-identification within the ESO Imaging Survey (EIS: Arnouts et al. 2001, A&A, 379, 740) and COMBO-17 (Wolf et al. 2004, A&A, 421, 913; 2008, A&A, 492, 933) surveys. Photometric data of 1129 CDFS sources are provided in the main catalog, and optical/UV/X-ray photometric and spectroscopic information from other surveys are also included. The stacking extends the detection limits by ~1 mag in the three UV bands, contributing 30% of the catalogued UV sources. The comparison with the available measurements in similar spectral bands confirms the validity of the XMM-OM calibration. The combined COMBO-17/X-ray classification of the "intermediate" sources (e.g. optically diluted and/or X-ray absorbed AGN) is also discussed in the reference paper. This table was created by the HEASARC in June 2015 based on the union of <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/ApJS/217/4/">CDS Catalog J/ApJS/217/4/</a> files omcdfst7.dat (the 1,129 sources in the main catalog) and omcdfst8.dat (the 44 sources in the supplementary catalog). This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
The 2023 release of the XMM OM Serendipitous Ultraviolet Source Survey (XMM-SUSS6.1) Catalog, a catalog of optical/UV sources detected by the Optical Monitor (OM) on-board the European Space Agency's (ESA's) XMM-Newton observatory, spans the period of observations from 2000 to November 2022. The data processing was performed at the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC, Madrid, Spain) using the XMM Science Analysis Software system (SAS) versions 18 and 19. In addition to covering a larger observation period, this sixth release reflects a change in philosophy with regard to the origin of the incorporated data. In previous releases, the data were generated via a bespoke processing of the OM Observation Data Files (ODFs) while in this new release, the catalog has been guided by the XMM user community and the authors have sought to harmonize the contents of the catalog with those of the OM data in the XMM-Newton Science Archive (XSA), which derive from the standard XMM-Newton pipeline processing system. While the bespoke processing and pipeline systems are fundamentally very similar, they are not identical and the differences lead to some differences in the output. The number of observations (OBSIDs) included in the catalog is 12,057. The total number of entries in this release is 9,920,390. They correspond to 6,659,554 unique sources, of which 1,225,117 have multiple entries in the source table, corresponding to different observations. For each entry, positional and photometric data (count rate, magnitude and flux) and quality flags for each measurement are provided. The description of the previous release of the catalog can be found in Page M.J. et al. (2012, MNRAS, 426, 903). U, B, V, UVW2, UVM2 and UVW1 refer to the filter bandpasses defined in the Source Properties: Filter Set section of the MSSL documentation for this catalog: <a href="http://www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/www_astro/XMM-OM-SUSS/SourcePropertiesFilters.shtml">http://www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/www_astro/XMM-OM-SUSS/SourcePropertiesFilters.shtml</a>. There is a second, related table which gives a summary of the observations from which the XMM-SUSS6.1 sources listed in this table have been detected and measured. That summary table is available at the HEASARC as the <a href="/W3Browse/xmm-newton/xmmomsuob.html">XMMOMSUOB table</a>. This HEASARC database table contains the sixth release of the XMM-OM SUSS catalog, XMM-SUSS6.1, released by ESA in October 2023, obtained from the XMM-Newton Science Archive (<a href="http://xmm.esac.esa.int/xsa">http://xmm.esac.esa.int/xsa</a>), and ingested into the HEASARC database in October 2023. It is also available at the HEASARC as the gzipped FITS file <a href="https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/xmm/data/catalogues/XMM-OM-SUSS6-1.1.fits.gz">https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/xmm/data/catalogues/XMM-OM-SUSS6-1.1.fits.gz</a>. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
The 2023 release of the XMM OM Serendipitous Ultraviolet Source Survey (XMM-SUSS6.1) Catalog, a catalog of optical/UV sources detected by the Optical Monitor (OM) on-board the European Space Agency's (ESA's) XMM-Newton observatory, spans the period of observations from 2000 to November 2022. The data processing was performed at the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC, Madrid, Spain) using the XMM Science Analysis Software system (SAS) versions 18 and 19. In addition to covering a larger observation period, this sixth release reflects a change in philosophy with regard to the origin of the incorporated data. In previous releases, the data were generated via a bespoke processing of the OM Observation Data Files (ODFs) while in this new release, the catalog has been guided by the XMM user community and the authors have sought to harmonize the contents of the catalog with those of the OM data in the XMM-Newton Science Archive (XSA), which derive from the standard XMM-Newton pipeline processing system. While the bespoke processing and pipeline systems are fundamentally very similar, they are not identical and the differences lead to some differences in the output. The number of observations (OBSIDs) included in the catalog is 12,057. This table (XMMOMSUOB) contains the list of these observations and their characteristics, giving for each observation the filters used, the exposure time for each filter, the number of sources detected in each filter and the detection magnitude limit for each filter. The total number of entries in this release is 9,920,390. They correspond to 6,659,554 unique sources, of which 1,225,117 have multiple entries in the source table, corresponding to different observations. This list of sources is available at the HEASARC as the <a href="/W3Browse/xmm-newton/xmmomsuss.html">XMMOMSUSS table</a>. The documentation on the first release of this catalog is available at <a href="http://www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/www_astro/XMM-OM-SUSS/Summary.shtml">http://www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/www_astro/XMM-OM-SUSS/Summary.shtml</a>. This HEASARC database table contains the sixth release of the XMM-OM SUSS catalog, XMM-SUSS6.1, released by ESA in October 2023, obtained from the XMM-Newton Science Archive (<a href="http://xmm.esac.esa.int/xsa">http://xmm.esac.esa.int/xsa</a>), and ingested into the HEASARC database in October 2023. It is also available at the HEASARC as the gzipped FITS file <a href="https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/xmm/data/catalogues/XMM-OM-SUSS6-1.1.fits.gz">https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/xmm/data/catalogues/XMM-OM-SUSS6-1.1.fits.gz</a>. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
The XMM-Newton survey of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) yields a complete coverage of the bar and eastern wing in the 0.2-12.0keV band. This catalogue comprises 3053 unique X-ray point sources and sources with moderate extent that have been reduced from 5236 individual detections found in observations between April 2000 and April 2010. Sources have a median position uncertainty of 1.3" (1{sigma}) and limiting fluxes down to ~1*10^-14^erg/s/cm2 in the 0.2-4.5keV band, corresponding to 5*10^33^erg/s for sources in the SMC. Sources have been classified using hardness ratios, X-ray variability, and their multi-wavelength properties. In addition to the main-field (5.58deg^2^) available outer fields have been included in the catalogue, yielding a total field area of 6.32deg^2^. X-ray sources with high extent (>40", e.g. supernova remnants and galaxy cluster) have been presented by Haberl et al. (2012, Cat. J/A+A/545/A128)
In order to determine the relationship between the faint X-ray and faint radio source populations, and hence to help understand the X-ray and radio emission mechanisms in those faint source populations, we have made a deep 1.4-GHz Very Large Array radio survey of the 13h+38{deg} XMMNewton/ROSAT X-ray Survey Area. From a combined data set of 10-h, B-configuration data and 14-h, A-configuration data, maps with 3.35-arcsec resolution and a noise limit of 7.5Jy were constructed. A complete sample of 449 sources was detected within a 30-arcmin diameter region above a 4 detection limit of 30Jy, at the map centre, making this one of the deepest radio surveys at this frequency. The differential source count shows a significant upturn at submilliJansky flux densities, similar to that seen in other deep surveys at 1.4GHz (e.g. the Phoenix survey, Cat. <J/MNRAS/296/839>), but larger than that seen in the Hubble Deep Field (HDF) which may have been selected to be underdense. This upturn is well modelled by the emergence of a population of medium-redshift star-forming galaxies which dominate at faint flux densities. The brighter source counts are well modelled by active galactic nuclei.
XMM-Newton Serendipitous Source Catalog from Stacked Observations: Obs. Data
Short Name:
XMMSTACKOB
Date:
01 Nov 2024
Publisher:
NASA/GSFC HEASARC
Description:
The stacked catalog 4XMM-DR14s (<a href="/W3Browse/xmm-newton/xmmstack.html">XMMSTACK</a>) has been compiled from 1,751 groups, comprising 10,336 overlapping XMM-Newton observations. They were selected from the public observations taken between 2000 February 1 and 2023 November 16 which overlap by at least one arcminute in radius. It contains 427,524 unique sources, 329,972 of them multiply observed, with positions and source parameters like fluxes in the XMM-Newton standard energy bands, hardness ratios, quality estimate, and information on inter-observation variability. The parameters are directly derived from the simultaneous fit, and, wherever applicable, additionally calculated for each contributing observation. Exposures that do not qualify for source detection, for example because of a high background level, are used for subsequent PSF photometry: source fluxes and flux-related parameters are derived for them at the source position and extent found during source detection. 4XMM-DR14s lists 1,807,316 individual flux measurements of the 427,524 unique sources. Stacked source detection aims at exploring the multiply observed sky regions and exploit their survey potential, in particular to study the long-term behavior of X-ray emitting sources. It thus makes use of the long(er) effective exposure time per sky area and offers the opportunity to investigate flux variability directly through the source detection process. The main catalog properties are summarized in the table below, the data processing and the stacked source detection are described in the processing summary. To ensure detection quality, background levels are assessed, and event-based astrometric corrections are applied before running source detection. After source detections, problematic detections and detection parameters are flagged by an automated algorithm. All detections are screened visually, and obviously spurious sources are flagged manually. This table contains the source parameters from the individual observations in the stacked catalog, <a href="/W3Browse/xmm-newton/xmmstack.html">4XMM-DR14s</a>. The parameters are derived from the simultaneous source-detection fit to all stacked observations at the common source position for each observation that covers a source, amounting to 1,807,316 measurements. The mean source parameters from stacked source detection are provided in the associated main table <a href="/W3Browse/xmm-newton/xmmstack.html">4XMM-DR14s</a>, referred to as XMMSTACK. The authors referred to the EPIC instruments with the following designations: PN, M1 (MOS1), and M2 (MOS2). The energy bands used in the 4XMM processing were the same as for the 3XMM catalog. The following are the basic energy bands: <pre> 1: 0.2-0.5 keV 2: 0.5-1.0 keV 3: 1.0-2.0 keV 4: 2.0-4.5 keV 5: 4.5-12.0 keV </pre> All-EPIC values cover the energy range 0.2-12.0 keV. The full catalog documentation can be found at <a href="https://xmmssc.aip.de/">https://xmmssc.aip.de/</a>. The following table gives an overview of the statistics of this catalog in comparison with the previous stacked catalogs, 4XMM-DR14s through 3XMM-DR7s: <pre> 4XMM-DR14s 4XMM-DR13s 4XMM-DR12s 4XMM-DR11s 4XMM-DR10s 4XMM-DR9s 3XMM-DR7s Number of stacks 1,751 1,688 1,620 1,475 1,396 1,329 434 Number of observations 10,336 9,796 9,355 8,292 7,803 6,604 789 Time span first to last observation Feb 01, 2000 Feb 01, 2000 Feb 01, 2000 Feb 03, 2000 Feb 03, 2000 Feb 03, 2000 Feb 20, 2000 -- Nov 16,2023 -- Nov 29, 2022 -- Dec 04, 2021 -- Dec 17, 2020 -- Dec 14, 2019 -- Nov 13, 2018 -- Apr 02, 2016 Approximate sky coverage (sq. deg.) 685 650 625 560 540 485 150 Approximate multiply observed sky area(sq. deg) 440 420 400 350 335 300 100 Total number of sources 427,524 401,596 386,043 358,809 335,812 288,191 71,951 Sources with several contributing observations 329,972 310,478 298,626 275,440 256,213 218,283 57,665 Multiply observed sources with flag 0 or 1 276,058 262,842 252,445 233,542 216,999 191,497 55,450 Multiply observed with a total detection 266,129 251,555 241,880 224,178 208,921 181,132 49,935 likelihood of at least six Multiply observed with a total detection 226,219 213,812 205,394 189,556 176,680 153,487 42,077 likelihood of at least ten Total measurements 1,807,316 1,683,264 1,592,263 1,421,966 1,322,299 1,033,264 216,393 Maximum exposures per source 173 170 155 140 140 103 69 Maximum observations per source 77 77 70 65 65 40 23 Maximum on-time per source 2.8 Ms 2.8 Ms 2.8 Ms 2.8 Ms 2.8 Ms 1.9 Ms 1.3 Ms </pre> This database table was last updated by the HEASARC in July 2024. It contains the 4XMM-DR14s observations catalog, released by ESA on 2024-07-09 and obtained from the XMM-Newton Survey Science Center Consortium at <a href="https://xmmssc.aip.de/cms/catalogues/4xmm-dr14s/">https://xmmssc.aip.de/cms/catalogues/4xmm-dr14s/</a>. It is <a href="https://xmmssc.aip.de/data/xmmstack_v3.2_4xmmdr14s.fits.gz">also available as a gzipped FITS file</a>. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
XMM-Newton Serendipitous Source Catalog from Stacked Observations (4XMM-DR14s)
Short Name:
XMMSTACK
Date:
01 Nov 2024
Publisher:
NASA/GSFC HEASARC
Description:
The stacked catalog 4XMM-DR14s has been compiled from 1,751 groups, comprising 10,336 overlapping XMM-Newton observations. They were selected from the public observations taken between 2000 February 1 and 2023 November 16 which overlap by at least one arcminute in radius. It contains 427,524 unique sources, 329,972 of them multiply observed, with positions and source parameters like fluxes in the XMM-Newton standard energy bands, hardness ratios, quality estimate, and information on inter-observation variability. The parameters are directly derived from the simultaneous fit, and, wherever applicable, additionally calculated for each contributing observation. Exposures that do not qualify for source detection, for example because of a high background level, are used for subsequent PSF photometry: source fluxes and flux-related parameters are derived for them at the source position and extent found during source detection. 4XMM-DR14s lists 1,807,316 individual flux measurements (visits) of the 427,524 unique sources. Stacked source detection aims at exploring the multiply observed sky regions and exploit their survey potential, in particular to study the long-term behavior of X-ray emitting sources. It thus makes use of the long(er) effective exposure time per sky area and offers the opportunity to investigate flux variability directly through the source detection process. The main catalog properties are summarized in the table below, the data processing and the stacked source detection are described in the processing summary. To ensure detection quality, background levels are assessed, and event-based astrometric corrections are applied before running source detection. After source detections, problematic detections and detection parameters are flagged by an automated algorithm. All detections are screened visually, and obviously spurious sources are flagged manually. This table contains the parameters of the 427,524 unique sources (provided in this table) derived simultaneously from all of the observations (provided in the associated table of observations referred to as <a href="/W3Browse/xmm-newton/xmmstackob.html">XMMSTACKOB</a>) at the fitted position. The authors referred to the EPIC instruments with the following designations: PN, M1 (MOS1), and M2 (MOS2). The energy bands used in the 4XMM processing were the same as for the 3XMM catalog. The following are the basic energy bands: <pre> 1: 0.2-0.5 keV 2: 0.5-1.0 keV 3: 1.0-2.0 keV 4: 2.0-4.5 keV 5: 4.5-12.0 keV </pre> All-EPIC values cover the energy range 0.2-12.0 keV. The full catalog documentation can be found at <a href="https://xmmssc.aip.de/">https://xmmssc.aip.de/</a>. The following table gives an overview of the statistics of this catalog in comparison with the previous stacked catalogs, 4XMM-DR14s through 3XMM-DR7s: <pre> 4XMM-DR14s 4XMM-DR13s 4XMM-DR12s 4XMM-DR11s 4XMM-DR10s 4XMM-DR9s 3XMM-DR7s Number of stacks 1,751 1,688 1,620 1,475 1,396 1,329 434 Number of observations 10,336 9,796 9,355 8,292 7,803 6,604 789 Time span first to last observation Feb 01, 2000 Feb 01, 2000 Feb 01, 2000 Feb 03, 2000 Feb 03, 2000 Feb 03, 2000 Feb 20, 2000 -- Nov 16,2023 -- Nov 29, 2022 -- Dec 04, 2021 -- Dec 17, 2020 -- Dec 14, 2019 -- Nov 13, 2018 -- Apr 02, 2016 Approximate sky coverage (sq. deg.) 685 650 625 560 540 485 150 Approximate multiply observed sky area(sq. deg) 440 420 400 350 335 300 100 Total number of sources 427,524 401,596 386,043 358,809 335,812 288,191 71,951 Sources with several contributing observations 329,972 310,478 298,626 275,440 256,213 218,283 57,665 Multiply observed sources with flag 0 or 1 276,058 262,842 252,445 233,542 216,999 191,497 55,450 Multiply observed with a total detection 266,129 251,555 241,880 224,178 208,921 181,132 49,935 likelihood of at least six Multiply observed with a total detection 226,219 213,812 205,394 189,556 176,680 153,487 42,077 likelihood of at least ten Total measurements 1,807,316 1,683,264 1,592,263 1,421,966 1,322,299 1,033,264 216,393 Maximum exposures per source 173 170 155 140 140 103 69 Maximum observations per source 77 77 70 65 65 40 23 Maximum on-time per source 2.8 Ms 2.8 Ms 2.8 Ms 2.8 Ms 2.8 Ms 1.9 Ms 1.3 Ms </pre> This database table was last updated by the HEASARC in July 2024. It contains the 4XMM-DR14s source catalog, released by ESA on 2024-07-09 and obtained from the XMM-Newton Survey Science Center Consortium at <a href="https://xmmssc.aip.de/cms/catalogues/4xmm-dr14s/">https://xmmssc.aip.de/cms/catalogues/4xmm-dr14s/</a>. It is <a href="https://xmmssc.aip.de/data/xmmstack_v3.2_4xmmdr14s.fits.gz">also available as a gzipped FITS file</a>. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
1XMM is the first comprehensive catalogue of serendipitous X-ray sources from the European Space Agency's (ESA) XMM-Newton observatory launched in December 1999, and has been constructed by the XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre (SSC) on behalf of ESA. Most (>80%) of the entries have not previously been reported as X-ray sources. The catalogue contains source detections drawn from 585 XMM-Newton EPIC observations made between 2000 March 1 and 2002 May 5; all datasets were publicly available by 2003 January 31 but not all public observations are included in this catalogue. Net exposure times in these observations range from less than 1000 up to about 100000 seconds. The total area of the catalogue fields is about 90deg^2^, but taking account of the substantial overlaps between observations, the net sky area covered independently is about 50deg^2^. The observations sample, albeit sparsely, most of the sky, with the exception of a 'hole' centered in the Cygnus region, caused by spacecraft observing constraints. The catalogue source detection and parametrization technique is optimized for point-like sources, and has been performed across several photon-energy bands (see "EPIC energy bands" below) and using data from each of the three EPIC cameras PN, MOS-1, MOS-2; the prefixes PN_ M1_ M2_ are generally used to designate the columns of the catalogue related to the detections by the corresponding camera. The catalogue in its FITS version has ~ 400 columns; these include source-detection parameters (likelihood, position coordinates, counts, count rate, flux, hardness ratio, background estimates, errors etc), the results of cross-correlation with a large number of archival catalogues (SIMBAD, NED, USNO, GSC, APM, ROSAT etc), quality 'flags' resulting from visual screening, and 'meta-data' relating to the observation. For practical considerations the ascii version of the catalogue is made of 3 tables representing the sources, the observations and processing details, and the results of the cross-correlations; the names used as column names in the ASCII version are also reported within parentheses in the "Byte-by-Byte" descriptions below. Details about the construction of the catalogue can be found from the XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre (http://xmmssc-www.star.le.ac.uk/)