- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/II/307
- Title:
- WISE Preliminary Data Release
- Short Name:
- II/307
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE; see Wright et al. 2010AJ....140.1868W) is a NASA Medium Class Explorer mission that conducted a digital imaging survey of the entire sky in the 3.4, 4.6, 12 and 22um mid-infrared bandpasses (hereafter W1, W2, W3 and W4). WISE will produce and release to the world astronomical and educational communities and general public a digital Image Atlas covering the sky in the four survey bands, and a reliable Source Catalog containing accurate photometry and astrometry for over 300 million objects. The WISE Catalog and Atlas will enable a broad variety of research efforts ranging from the search for the closest stars and brown dwarfs to the most luminous galaxies in the Universe. WISE science data products will serve as an important reference data set for planning observations and interpreting data obtained with future ground and space-borne observatories, such as JWST. WISE was launched on 2009-12-14 from Vandenberg SLC2W.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/181/444
- Title:
- X-emitting stars identified from the RASS/SDSS
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/181/444
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS) was the first imaging X-ray survey of the entire sky. Combining the RASS Bright and Faint Source Catalogs (Cat. <IX/10>, 1RXS and <IX/29>) yields an average of about three X-ray sources per square degree. However, while X-ray source counterparts are known to range from distant quasars to nearby M dwarfs, the RASS data alone are often insufficient to determine the nature of an X-ray source. As a result, large-scale follow-up programs are required to construct samples of known X-ray emitters. We use optical data produced by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to identify 709 stellar X-ray emitters cataloged in the RASS and falling within the SDSS Data Release 1 footprint. Most of these are bright stars with coronal X-ray emission unsuitable for SDSS spectroscopy, which is designed for fainter objects (g>15[mag]). Instead, we use SDSS photometry, correlations with the Two Micron All Sky Survey and other catalogs, and spectroscopy from the Apache Point Observatory 3.5m telescope to identify these stellar X-ray counterparts. Our sample of 707 X-ray-emitting F, G, K, and M stars is one of the largest X-ray-selected samples of such stars. We identify 17 new X-ray-emitting DA (hydrogen) WDs, of which three are newly identified WDs. We report on follow-up observations of three candidate cool X-ray-emitting WDs (one DA and two DB (helium) WDs); we have not confirmed X-ray emission from these WDs.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/527/A126
- Title:
- 2XMMi/SDSS DR7 cross-correlation
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/527/A126
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Survey Science Centre of the XMM-Newton satellite released the first incremental version of the 2XMM catalogue in August 2008. Containing more than 220000 X-ray sources, the 2XMMi was at that time the largest catalogue of X-ray sources ever published and thus constitutes an unprecedented resource for studying the high-energy properties of various classes of X-ray emitters such as AGN and stars. Thanks to the high throughput of the EPIC cameras on board XMM-Newton accurate positions, fluxes, and hardness ratios are available for a substantial fraction of the X-ray detections. The advent of the 7th release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey offers the opportunity to cross-match two major surveys and extend the spectral energy distribution of many 2XMMi sources towards the optical bands. This implies building extensive homogeneous samples with a statistically controlled rate of spurious matches and completeness. We here present a cross-matching algorithm based on the classical likelihood ratio estimator. The method developed has the advantage of providing true probabilities of identifications without resorting to heavy Monte-Carlo simulations.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/553/A12
- Title:
- XMM-Newton SSC survey of Galactic Plane
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/553/A12
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Many different classes of X-ray sources contribute to the Galactic landscape at high energies. Although the nature of the most luminous X-ray emitters is now fairly well understood, the population of low-to-medium X-ray luminosity (LX=10^27-34^erg/s) sources remains much less studied, our knowledge being mostly based on the observation of local members. The advent of wide field and high sensitivity X-ray telescopes such as XMM-Newton now offers the opportunity to observe this low-to-medium LX population at large distances. We report on the results of a Galactic plane survey conducted by the XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre (SSC). Beyond its astrophysical goals, this survey aims at gathering a representative sample of identified X-ray sources at low latitude that can be used later on to statistically identify the rest of the serendipitous sources discovered in the Milky Way. The survey is based on 26 XMM-Newton observations, obtained at |b|<20{deg}, distributed over a large range in Galactic longitudes and covering a summed area of 4deg^2^. The flux limit of our survey is 2x10^-15^erg/cm^2^/s in the soft (0.5-2keV) band and 1x10^-14^erg/cm^2^/s in the hard (2-12keV) band. We detect a total of 1319 individual X-ray sources. Using optical follow-up observations supplemented by cross-correlation with a large range of multi-wavelength archival catalogues we identify 316 X-ray sources. This constitutes the largest group of spectroscopically identified low latitude X-ray sources at this flux level. The majority of the identified X-ray sources are active coronae with spectral types in the range A-M at maximum distances of ~1kpc. The number of identified active stars increases towards late spectral types, reaching a maximum at K. Using infrared colours we classify 18% of the stars as giants. The observed distributions of FX/FV, X-ray and infrared colours indicates that our sample is dominated by a young (100Myr) to intermediate (600Myr) age population with a small contribution of close main sequence or evolved binaries. We find other interesting objects such as cataclysmic variables (d~0.6-2kpc), low luminosity high mass stars (likely belonging to the class of {gamma}-Cas-like systems, d~1.5-7kpc), T Tauri and Herbig-Ae stars. A handful of extragalactic sources located in the highest Galactic latitude fields could be optically identified. For the 20 fields observed with the EPIC pn camera, we have constructed logN(>S)-logS curves in the soft and hard bands. In the soft band, the majority of the sources are positively identified with active coronae and the fraction of stars increases by about one order of magnitude from b=60{deg} to b=0{deg} at an X-ray flux of 2x10^-14^erg/cm^2^/s. The hard band is dominated by extragalactic sources, but there is a small contribution from a hard Galactic population formed by CVs, HMXB candidates or {gamma}-Cas-like systems and by some active coronae that are also detected in the soft band. At b=0{deg} the surface density of hard sources brighter than 1x10^-13^erg/cm^2^/s steeply increases by one order of magnitude from l=20{deg} to the Galactic centre region (l=0.9{deg}).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/466/41
- Title:
- XMM-Newton survey in the Marano Field. I.
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/466/41
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report on a medium deep XMM-Newton survey of the Marano Field and optical follow-up observations. The mosaicked XMM-Newton pointings in this optical quasar survey field cover 0.6 deg2 with a total of 120ks good observation time. We detected 328 X-ray sources in total. The turnover flux of our sample is f_X_~5x10^-15^erg/cm2/s in the 0.2-10keV band. With VLT FORS1 and FORS2 spectroscopy we classified 96 new X-ray counterparts. The central 0.28deg^2^, where detailed optical follow-up observations were performed, contain 170 X-ray sources (detection likelihood ML>10), out of which 48 had already been detected by ROSAT. In this region we recover 23 out of 29 optically selected quasars. With a total of 110 classifications in our core sample we reach a completeness of ~65%. About one-third of the XMM-Newton sources are classified as type II AGN with redshifts mostly below 1.0. Furthermore, we detect five high redshift type II AGN (2.2<=z<=2.8).
856. XMMOMCDFS catalogue
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/574/A49
- Title:
- XMMOMCDFS catalogue
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/574/A49
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has performed repeated observations of the CDFS in 33 epochs (2001-2010) through the XMM-CDFS Deep Survey. During the X-ray observations, XMM-OM targeted the central 17x17arcmin^2^ 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 catalogue of the CDFS, filling the UV spectral coverage between the optical surveys and GALEX observations. We present the UV catalogue 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. We reprocessed the XMM-OM data of the survey and we 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 EIS and COMBO-17 surveys. Photometric data of 1129 CDFS sources are provided into the catalogue, 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.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/II/370
- Title:
- XMM-OM Serendipitous Source Survey Catalogue (XMM-SUSS5.0)
- Short Name:
- II/370
- Date:
- 03 Dec 2021 13:12:28
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- SUSS5.0 is a new 2020 release of the XMM OM Serendipitous Ultraviolet Source Survey catalogue. his release is largely an increment of the previous XMM-OM-SUSS4.1 release but includes flagging of sources affected by a patch of reduced sensitivity near the centre of the OM field of view. The catalogue was compiled for the Optical Monitor instrument on board the ESA XMM Newton observatory. This version, the 5th release of the catalogue, spans the period of observations from XMM-Newton revolution 34 (February 2000) to revolution 3704 (February 2020). A detailed description of the Catalogue can be found at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/mssl/research-projects/2018/dec/xmm-newton. A refereed paper on the first version can be found in Page M.J. et al. (2012MNRAS.426..903P). In addition to covering a larger observation period, this fifth release includes flagging of sources affected by a patch of reduced sensitivity near the boresight, caused by erroneously V-filter exposures during an observation of Jupiter in July 2017 (revolution 3224). All data have been fully processed at the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC, Madrid, Spain) using the XMM Science Analysis Software (SAS) system version 18.0. The number of observations (OBSIDs) included in the catalogue is 10,628. The total number of entries in this release is 8,863,922. They correspond to 5,965,434 sources, of which 1,120,754 have multiple entries in the source table, corresponding to different observations. The Catalogue is a FITS file consisting of two tables (please note that users wishing to use the TOPCAT tool to manipulate the catalogue, need to select the table format option, "FITS" to load the catalogue). The first one (SRCLIST) contains the sources, with positional and photometric data (count rate, magnitude and flux) and quality flags for each measurement.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/II/356
- Title:
- XMM-OM Serendipitous Source Survey Catalogue (XMM-SUSS4.1)
- Short Name:
- II/356
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- SUSS4.1 is a new 2018 release of the XMM OM Serendipitous Ultraviolet Source Survey catalogue. This new release corrects some inconsistencies between IAUNAME and SRCNUM found in the previous release (OM SUSS4). The catalogue was compiled for the Optical Monitor instrument on board the ESA XMM Newton observatory. This version, the 4th release of the catalogue, spans the period of observations from 2000 to July 2017. A detailed description of the Catalogue can be found at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/mssl/research-projects/2018/dec/xmm-newton. A refereed paper on the first version can be found in Page M.J. et al. (2012MNRAS.426..903P). In addition to covering a larger observation period, the fourth release differs from the previous one in the implementation of a new time dependent sensitivity degradation correction. As in the previous release, sources detected on stacked images are properly flagged. All data have been fully processed at the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC, Madrid, Spain) by using the XMM Science Analysis Software (SAS) system version 17.0. The number of observations (OBSIDs) included in the catalogue is 9,749. The total number of entries in this release is 8,176,156. They correspond to 5,503,765 sources, of which 1,035,453 have multiple entries in the source table, corresponding to different observations. The Catalogue consists of two tables. The first one (SRCLIST) contains the sources, with positional and photometric data (count rate, magnitude and flux) and quality flags for each measurement. In the second table (SUMMARY) we give a summary of the observations from which the sources have been detected and measured.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/II/340
- Title:
- XMM-OM Serendipitous Source Survey Catalogue (XMM-SUSS2.1)
- Short Name:
- II/340
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The second release of the XMM OM Serendipitous Source Survey Catalogue (XMM-SUSS2) was produced by processing the XMM-Newton Optical Monitor (OM) data obtained from the beginning of the mission (2000) until the end of 2012. The latest release, XMM-SUSS2.1, now includes an extra year of data to the end of 2013. The data processing was performed at the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC, Spain) and at Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL UCL, U.K.) by using the XMM Science Analysis Software system (SAS) version 14.0. In addition to covering a larger observation period, this release differs from the first release (XMM-SUSS) by inclusion of all the OM observations (not only those containing UV filters) and by performing source detection on stacked images, thus facilitating the detection of fainter sources. The number of observations (OBSIDs) included in the catalogue is 7,170. The total number of entries included in the catalogue is 6,246,432. They correspond to 4,329,363 sources, of which 831,582 have multiple entries in the source table, corresponding to different observations.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/468/379
- Title:
- XMM Optical Monitor Survey of TMC
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/468/379
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Optical Monitor (OM) on-board XMM-Newton obtained optical/ultraviolet data for the XMM-Newton Extended Survey of the Taurus Molecular Cloud (XEST), simultaneously with the X-ray detectors. With the XEST OM data, we study the optical and ultraviolet properties of TMC members, and to perform correlative studies between the X-ray and OM light curves. In particular, we aim to determine whether accretion plays a significant role in the optical/ultraviolet and X-ray emissions. The Neupert effect in stellar flares is also investigated. Coordinates, average count rates and magnitudes were extracted from OM images, together with light curves with low time resolution (a few kiloseconds). For a few sources, OM FAST mode data were also available, and we extracted OM light curves with high time resolution. The OM data were correlated with Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) data and with the XEST catalogue in the X-rays. The XEST OM catalogue contains 2,148 entries of which 1,893 have 2MASS counterparts. However, only 98 entries have X-ray counterparts, of which 51 are known TMC members and 12 additional are TMC candidates. The OM data indicate that accreting stars are statistically brighter in the U band than non-accreting stars after correction for extinction, and have U-band excesses, most likely due to accretion. The OM emission of accreting stars is variable, probably due to accretion spots, but it does not correlate with the X-ray light curve, suggesting that accretion does not contribute significantly to the X-ray emission of most accreting stars. In some cases, flares were detected in both X-ray and OM light curves and followed a Neupert effect pattern, in which the optical/ultraviolet emission precedes the X-ray emission of a flare, whereas the X-ray flux is proportional to the integral of the optical flux.