- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/xmmomcat
- Title:
- XMM-Newton OM Object Catalog
- Short Name:
- XMMOMCAT
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- 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 .
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- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/xmmomcdfs
- Title:
- XMM-Newton Optical Monitor Chandra Deep Field-South UV Catalog
- Short Name:
- XMMOMCDFS
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- 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 .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/xmmomsuss
- Title:
- XMM-Newton Optical Monitor Serendipitous UV Source Survey Catalog, v6.1
- Short Name:
- XMMOMSUSS
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- 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 .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/xmmomsuob
- Title:
- XMM-Newton Optical Monitor SUSS Catalog, v6.1: Observation IDs
- Short Name:
- XMMOMSUOB
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- 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 .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/xmmstackob
- Title:
- XMM-Newton Serendipitous Source Catalog from Stacked Observations: Obs. Data
- Short Name:
- XMMSTACKOB
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- 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 .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/xmmstack
- Title:
- XMM-Newton Serendipitous Source Catalog from Stacked Observations (4XMM-DR14s)
- Short Name:
- XMMSTACK
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- 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 .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/xmmssc
- Title:
- XMM-Newton Serendipitous Source Catalog (4XMM-DR14 Version)
- Short Name:
- XMM/SSC
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The XMMSSC table contains the Fourth XMM-Newton Serendipitous Source Catalog, Fourteenth Data Release, or 4XMM-DR14. 4XMM-DR14 is the fourth-generation catalog of serendipitous X-ray sources from the European Space Agency's (ESA) XMM-Newton observatory, and has been created by the XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre (SSC) on behalf of ESA. It is an incremental version of the the 4XMM catalog and contains 621 more observations and 51,884 more detections than the preceding 4XMM-DR13 catalog, which was made public in July 2023. In addition, the team provides spectra and lightcurves for more than 18,775 more detections than in 4XMM-DR13. The catalog contains source detections drawn from a total of 13,864 XMM-Newton EPIC observations made between 2000 February 1 and 2023 December 31; all datasets included were publicly available by 2023 December 31 but not all public observations are included in this catalog. For net exposure time >= 1ksec, the net area of the catalog fields taking account of the substantial overlaps between observations is ~1,383 deg<sup>2</sup>. 4XMM-DR13 contains 1,035,832 X-ray detections above the processing likelihood threshold of 6. These X-ray detections relate to 692,109 unique X-ray sources. A significant fraction of sources (135,324, 20%) have more than one detection in the catalog (up to 90 repeat observations in the most extreme case). The catalog distinguishes between extended emission and point-like detections. Parameters of detections of extended sources are only reliable up to the maximum extent measure of 80 arcseconds. There are 96,553 detections of extended emission, of which 22,147 are 'clean' (in the sense that they were not flagged). Due to intrinsic features of the instrumentation as well as some shortcomings of the source detection process, some detections are considered to be spurious or their parameters are considered to be unreliable. It is recommended to use a detection flag and an observation flag as filters to obtain what can be considered a 'clean' sample. There are 897,091 out of 1,035,832 detections that are considered to be clean (i.e., summary flag < 3). For 372,313 detections, EPIC time series and 372,603 detections, EPIC spectra were automatically extracted during processing, and a chi<sup>2</sup>-variability test was applied to the time series. 8,380 detections in the catalog are considered variable, within the timespan of the specific observation, at a probability of 10<sup>-5</sup> or less based on the null-hypothesis that the source is constant. Of these, 6,307 have a summary flag <3. The median flux (in the total photon-energy band 0.2 - 12 keV) of the catalog detections is ~ 2.2 x 10<sup>-14</sup> erg/cm<sup>2</sup>/s; in the soft energy band (0.2 - 2 keV) the median flux is ~ 5.2 x 10<sup>-15</sup>, and in the hard band (2 - 12 keV) it is ~1.2 x 10<sup>-14</sup>. About 23% have fluxes below 1 x 10<sup>-14</sup> erg/cm<sup>2</sup>/s. The flux values from the three EPIC cameras are, overall, in agreement to ~10% for most energy bands. The median positional accuracy of the catalog point source detections is generally < 1.57 arcseconds (with a standard deviation of 1.43 arcseconds). With 4XMM-DR14, the team also released 4XMM-DR14s, available from HEASARC as <a href="/W3Browse/xmm-newton/xmmstack.html">XMMSTACK</a>, a new version of the stacked catalog built from 10,336 4XMM-DR14 overlapping observations. 4XMM-DR14s contains 1,751 stacks (or groups). Most of the stacks are composed of 2 observations and the largest has 372. The catalog contains 427,524 sources, of which 329,972 have several contributing observations. Stacking observations allows yet fainter sources to be detected in sky regions observed more than once, increasing the number of detections and uncovering long-term variability on repeatedly observed objects. 4XMM-DR14s reaches a depth of ~2.5 x 10<sup>-15</sup> and ~6.8 x 10<sup>-15</sup> erg/cm<sup>2</sup>/s in the soft (0.2-2keV) and hard (2-12 keV) X-ray band, respectively. The energy bands used in the 4XMM-DR14 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> while these are the broad energy bands: <pre> 6 = 0.2 - 2.0 keV soft band, no images made 7 = 2.0 - 12.0 keV hard band, no images made 8 = 0.2 - 12.0 keV total band 9 = 0.5 - 4.5 keV XID band </pre> This database table was last updated by the HEASARC in July 2024. It contains the 4XMM-DR14 catalog, released by ESA on 2024-07-09 and obtained from the XMM-Newton Survey Science Center Consortium (<a href="http://xmmssc.irap.omp.eu/Catalogue/4XMM-DR14/4XMM_DR14.html">http://xmmssc.irap.omp.eu/Catalogue/4XMM-DR14/4XMM_DR14.html</a>). It is also available as a gzipped FITS file at <a href="https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/xmm/data/catalogues/4XMM_DR13cat_v1.0.fits.gz">https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/xmm/data/catalogues/4XMM_DR13cat_v1.0.fits.gz</a>. <p> The previous versions of the Serendipitous Source Catalog, 3XMM-DR5, 3XMM-DR6, 3XMM-DR7, 3XMM-DR8, 4XMM-DR9, 4XMM-DR10, 4XMM-DR11, 4XMM-DR12, and 4XMM-DR13 are also available in the same directory for comparison purposes as the files 3XMM_DR5cat_v1.0.fits.gz, 3XMM_DR6cat_v1.0.fits.gz, 3XMM_DR7cat_v1.0.fits.gz, 3XMM_DR8_cat_v1.0.fits.gz, 4XMM_DR9_cat_v1.0.fits.gz, 4XMM_DR10cat_v1.0.fits.gz, 4XMM_DR11cat_v1.0.fits.gz, and 4XMM_DR12cat_v1.0.fits.gz, 4XMM_DR13cat_v1.0.fits.gz, respectively. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/xmmslewcln
- Title:
- XMM-Newton Slew Survey Clean Source Catalog, v3.0
- Short Name:
- XMMSlewClean
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This table contains the 'clean' sample of sources from the third catalog of X-ray sources found in slew data taken by the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton Observatory, XMMSL3 or XMMSLEW, Version 3.0. It has been created by the XMM-Newton Survey Science Center (SSC) on behalf of ESA, building on previous work carried out by the XMM-Newton SOC. The core <a href="/W3Browse/xmm-newton/xmmslewful.html">XMMSL3</a> catalog contains detections drawn from 3120 XMM-Newton pn slew observations, covering an energy interval from 0.2 keV to 12 keV. These observations were made between 2000 August 26 and 2023 August 11. All slew observations are public. A full discussion of the differences between XMMSL3 and XMMSL2 is given in Section 12 of the <a href="http://xmmssc.irap.omp.eu/Catalogue/XMMSL3/XMMSL3_Catalogue_User_Guide.html">XMMSL3 Users Guide</a>. This database table was first created by the HEASARC in August 2007 based on the FITS version of XMMSL1D1 (v1.1) of the XMM Slew Catalog. The current version was ingested in February 2025 and is based on the FITS version of XMMSL3 (v3.0) of the XMM Slew Catalog obtained from the following URLs: <a href="http://xmmssc.irap.omp.eu/Catalogue/XMMSL3/xmmsl3_v1.0.fits">http://xmmssc.irap.omp.eu/Catalogue/XMMSL3/xmmsl3_v1.0.fits</a> (the total sample). This catalog contains only the entries from that FITS file which have VAL_FLAG = 'CLEAN SAMPLE'. <p> The HEASARC has endeavored to retain the same parameter names as in the ESA version, but some names have been changed so as to conform to the standard HEASARC parameter naming conventions, e.g., all error parameter names which ended in "_err" in the ESA version end in "_error" in this HEASARC version. For other parameters which have had their names changed, their original ESA names are listed in square brackets in their descriptions below. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/xmmslewegs
- Title:
- XMM-Newton Slew Survey Extragalactic Sample
- Short Name:
- XMMSLEWEGS
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The ongoing XMM-Newton Slew Survey (XSS) provides coverage of a significant fraction of the sky in a broad X-ray bandpass. Although shallow by contemporary standards, in the "classical" 2-10 keV band of X-ray astronomy the XSS provides significantly better sensitivity than any currently available all-sky survey. The authors investigate the source content of the XSS, focusing on detections in the hard 2-10 keV band down to a very low threshold (>= 4 counts net of background). At the faint end, the survey reaches a flux sensitivity of roughly 3 x 10<sup>-12</sup> erg/cm<sup>2</sup>/s (2-10 keV). The starting point was a sample of 487 sources detected in the XSS (up to and including release XMMSL1d2) at high galactic latitude in the hard band. Through cross-correlation with published source catalogs from surveys spanning the electromagnetic spectrum from radio through to gamma-rays, they find that 45% of the sources have likely identifications with normal/active galaxies. A further 18% are associated with other classes of X-ray object (nearby coronally active stars, accreting binaries, clusters of galaxies), leaving 37% of the XSS sources with no current identification. The authors go on to define an XSS extragalactic sample comprised of 219 galaxies and active galaxies selected in the XSS hard band. They investigate the properties of this extragalactic sample including its X-ray log N - log S distribution, and it is this sample that is contained in this table. The authors find that, in the low-count limit, the XSS is, as expected, strongly affected by Eddington bias. There is also a very strong bias in the XSS against the detection of extended sources, most notably clusters of galaxies. A significant fraction of the detections at and around the low-count limit may be spurious. Nevertheless, it is possible to use the XSS to extract a reasonably robust sample of extragalactic sources, excluding galaxy clusters. The differential log N - log S relation of these extragalactic sources matches very well to the HEAO-1 A2 all-sky survey measurements at bright fluxes and to the 2XMM source counts at the faint end. The substantial sky coverage afforded by the XSS makes this survey a valuable resource for studying X-ray bright source samples, including those selected specifically in the hard 2 - 10 keV band. This table was created by the HEASARC in December 2012, based on the <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/548/A99">CDS Catalog J/A+A/548/A99</a> file tablea1.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/xmmslewful
- Title:
- XMM-Newton Slew Survey Full Source Catalog, v3.0
- Short Name:
- XMMSlewFull
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This table contains the 'total' sample of sources from the third catalog of X-ray sources found in slew data taken by the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton Observatory, XMMSL3 or XMMSLEW, Version 3.0. It has been created by the XMM-Newton Survey Science Center (SSC) on behalf of ESA, building on previous work carried out by the XMM-Newton SOC. It is an incremental version of the XMMSL2 catalog but contains 50% more observations than the previous version, including 8.5 additional years of data, using modified software and slightly revised screening methodology and therefore has been given a major version increment. It contains 1006 more observations for a total of 3120 observations and 68,383 more detections (for a total of 140,735 detections) than the preceding XMMSL2 catalog, which was made public in March 2017. This release of XMMSL3 contains detections drawn from 3120 XMM-Newton pn slew observations, covering an energy interval from 0.2 keV to 12 keV. These observations were made between 2000 August 26 and 2023 August 11. All slew observations are public. A full discussion of the differences between XMMSL3 and XMMSL2 is given in Section 12 of the <a href="http://xmmssc.irap.omp.eu/Catalogue/XMMSL3/XMMSL3_Catalogue_User_Guide.html">XMMSL3 Users Guide</a>. This database table was first created by the HEASARC in August 2007 based on the FITS version of XMMSL1D1 (v1.1) of the XMM Slew Catalog. The current version was ingested in February 2025 and is based on the FITS version of XMMSL3 (v3.0) of the XMM Slew Catalog obtained from the following URLs: <a href="http://xmmssc.irap.omp.eu/Catalogue/XMMSL3/xmmsl3_v1.0.fits">http://xmmssc.irap.omp.eu/Catalogue/XMMSL3/xmmsl3_v1.0.fits</a> (the total sample). <p> The HEASARC has endeavored to retain the same parameter names as in the ESA version, but some names have been changed so as to conform to the standard HEASARC parameter naming conventions, e.g., all error parameter names which ended in "_err" in the ESA version end in "_error" in this HEASARC version. For other parameters which have had their names changed, their original ESA names are listed in square brackets in their descriptions below. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
