- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/xmmstack
- Title:
- XMM-Newton Serendipitous Source Catalog from Stacked Observations (4XMM-DR14s)
- Short Name:
- XMMSTACK
- Date:
- 14 Feb 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 .
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- ID:
- ivo://wfau.roe.ac.uk/xmm_dsa
- Title:
- XMM-Newton Serendipitous Source Catalogue (2XMM)
- Short Name:
- 2XMM
- Date:
- 23 Jan 2024 09:36:54
- Publisher:
- WFAU, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh
- Description:
- XMM is the second comprehensive catalogue of serendipitous X-ray sources from the European Space Agency's (ESA) XMM-Newton observatory. The 2XMM catalogue is the largest X-ray source catalogue ever produced, containing almost twice as many discrete sources as either the ROSAT survey or pointed catalogues. 2XMM complements deeper Chandra and XMM-Newton small area surveys, probing a much larger sky area.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/IX/37
- Title:
- XMM-Newton Serendipitous Source Catalogue (1XMM)
- Short Name:
- IX/37
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- 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/)
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/IX/46
- Title:
- XMM-Newton Serendipitous Source Catalogue 3XMM-DR5
- Short Name:
- IX/46
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Thanks to the large collecting area (3x~1500cm^2^ at 1.5keV) and wide field of view (30' across in full field mode) of the X-ray cameras on board the European Space Agency X-ray observatory XMM-Newton, each individual pointing can result in the detection of hundreds of X-ray sources, most of which are newly discovered. Recently, many improvements in the XMM-Newton data reduction algorithms have been made. These include enhanced source characterisation and reduced spurious source detections, refined astrometric precision of sources, greater net sensitivity for source detection and the extraction of spectra and time series for fainter sources, with better signal-to-noise. Further, almost 50% more observations are in the public domain compared to 2XMMi-DR3, allowing the XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre (XMM-SSC) to produce a much larger and better quality X-ray source catalogue. The XMM-SSC has developed a pipeline to reduce the XMM-Newton data automatically and using improved calibration a new catalogue version has been made from XMM-Newton data made public by 2013 Dec. 31 (13 years of data). Manual screening ensures the highest data quality. This catalogue is known as 3XMM. In the latest release, 3XMM-DR5, there are 565962 X-ray detections comprising 396910 unique X-ray sources. For the 133000 brightest sources, spectra and lightcurves are provided. For all detections, the positions on the sky, a measure of the detection quality, and an evaluation of variability is provided, along with the fluxes and count rates in 7 X-ray energy bands, the total 0.2-12keV band counts, and four hardness ratios. To identify the detections, a cross correlation with 228 catalogues is also provided for each X-ray detection. 3XMM-DR5 is the largest X-ray source catalogue ever produced. Thanks to the large array of data products, it is an excellent resource in which to find new and extreme objects.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/IX/55
- Title:
- XMM-Newton Serendipitous Source Catalogue 3XMM-DR8
- Short Name:
- IX/55
- Date:
- 22 Feb 2022
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The 3XMM-DR8 catalogue contains source detections drawn from 10242 XMM-Newton EPIC observations, covering an energy interval from 0.2 keV to 12 keV. These observations were made between 2000 February 3 and 2017 November 30 and all datasets were publicly available by 2017 December 31, but not all public observations are included in this catalogue (see below for more information). Should you use the catalogue for your research and publish the results, please use the acknowledgement below and cite the paper describing 3XMM (Rosen, Webb, Watson et al., 2016A&A...590A...1R). This research has made use of data obtained from the 3XMM XMM-Newton serendipitous source catalogue compiled by the 10 institutes of the XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre selected by ESA. The following table gives an overview of the statistics of the catalogue in comparison with the 3XMM-DR7 catalogue. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3XMM-DR8 3XMM-DR7 Increment --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Number of observations 10242 9710 532 Number of 'clean' observations 6496 6164 332 (i.e., observation class < 3) Observing interval 03-Feb-00 03-Feb-00 30-Nov-17 15-Dec-16 1 yr Sky coverage, taking overlaps into account ( >=1ksec exposure) 1089sq.deg 1032sq.deg 57sq.deg Number of detections 775153 727790 47363 Number of 'clean' detections (i.e., summary flag < 3) 633733 596268 37465 Number of unique sources 531454 499266 32188 Number of 'cleanest' (summary flag = 0, 12256 11220 1036 not in high-background fields) extended detections Number of detections with spectra 173277 162082 11195 Number of detections with timeseries 173208 162045 11163 Number of detections where probability 5934 5631 303 of timeseries being constant is <1x10^-5^ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The production and content of the 3XMM catalogue is described in the the 3XMM-DR8 User Guide at http://xmmssc.irap.omp.eu/Catalogue/3XMM-DR8/3XMM-DR8_Catalogue_User_Guide.html The slimline version of the catalogue (file "xmm3r8s.dat") contains one row per unique source (while the the main catalogue has one row per detection) and thus has 531454 rows. There are 44 columns, essentially those containing information about the unique sources. The catalogue also contains a column with links to the IRAP catalogue server summary pages. In the case of sources with multiple detections, the summary page of the best detection is selected (i.e., the detection with the largest exposure time, summed over all cameras), and the summary page gives cross-links to the other detections.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/IX/54
- Title:
- XMM-Newton Serendipitous Source Catalogue 3XMM-DR7
- Short Name:
- IX/54
- Date:
- 22 Feb 2022
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The 3XMM-DR7 catalogue contains source detections drawn from 9710 XMM-Newton EPIC observations, covering an energy interval from 0.2keV to 12keV. These observations were made between 2000 February 3 and 2016 December 15 and all datasets were publicly available by 2016 December 31, but not all public observations are included in this catalogue (see below for more information). Should you use the catalogue for your research and publish the results, please use the acknowledgement below and cite the paper describing 3XMM (Rosen, Webb, Watson et al., 2016A&A...590A...1R). This research has made use of data obtained from the 3XMM XMM-Newton serendipitous source catalogue compiled by the 10 institutes of the XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre selected by ESA. The following table gives an overview of the statistics of the catalogue in comparison with the 3XMM-DR6 catalogue. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3XMM-DR7 3XMM-DR6 Increment --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Number of observations 9710 9159 551 Number of 'clean' observations 6164 5826 338 (i.e., observation class < 3) Observing interval 03-Feb-00 03-Feb-00 15-Dec-16 04-Jun-15 1.5 yr Sky coverage, taking overlaps into account ( >= 1ksec exposure) 1032sq.deg 982sq.deg 50sq.deg Number of detections 727790 678680 49110 Number of 'clean' detections 596268 552951 43317 (i.e., summary flag < 3) Number of unique sources 499266 468440 30826 Number of 'cleanest' (summary flag = 0, 11220 10290 930 not in high-background fields) extended detections Number of detections with spectra 162082 149998 12084 Number of detections with timeseries 162045 149968 12077 Number of detections where probability 5631 5238 393 of timeseries being constant is <1x10^-5^ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The production and content of the 3XMM catalogue is described in the the 3XMM-DR7 User Guide at http://xmmssc.irap.omp.eu/Catalogue/3XMM-DR7/3XMM-DR7_Catalogue_User_Guide.html The slimline version of the catalogue ( file "xmm3r7s.dat") contains one row per unique source (while the the main catalogue has one row per detection) and thus has 499266 rows. There are 44 columns, essentially those containing information about the unique sources. The catalogue also contains a column with links to the IRAP catalogue server summary pages. In the case of sources with multiple detections, the summary page of the best detection is selected (i.e., the detection with the largest exposure time, summed over all cameras), and the summary page gives cross-links to the other detections.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/IX/44
- Title:
- XMM-Newton Serendipitous Source Catalogue 3XMM-DR4
- Short Name:
- IX/44
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The 3XMM-DR4 catalogue is the third 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. The catalog has 2474 more observations and about 178,000 (50%) more detections than the preceding 2XMMi-DR3 catalog, which was made public in April 2010. The history of the versions can be summarized as: ---------------------------------------------------- Name DR# Designation Year Cat. #Sources ---------------------------------------------------- 2XMMp 0 2XMMp-DR0 2006 2XMM 1 2XMM-DR1 2007 IX/39 191870 2XMMi 2 2XMMi-DR2 2008 IX/40 221012 2XMMi-DR3 3 2XMMi-DR3 2010 IX/41 262902 3XMM-DR4 4 3XMM 2013 IX/44 372728 ---------------------------------------------------- The production and content of the 3XMM catalogue is described in the the 3XMM-DR4 User Guide at http://xmmssc-www.star.le.ac.uk/Catalogue/3XMM-DR4/UserGuide_xmmcat.html The "slim" version of the catalogue (file "xmm3r4s.dat") contains one row per unique source, while the the main catalogue has one row per detection. This slim version includes 44 columns, essentially those containing information about the unique sources, while the full catalogue (file "xmm3r4.fit") describes all detections with 318 columns. The slim version also contains a column with links to the LEDAS summary pages. In the case of sources with multiple detections the summary page of the best detection is selected (i.e., the detection with the largest exposure time, summed over all cameras), and the summary page gives cross-links to the other detections. A separate file "summary.dat" contains the key details about the observations used in the construction of the 3XMM-DR4 catalogue.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/IX/50
- Title:
- XMM-Newton Serendipitous Source Catalogue 3XMM-DR6
- Short Name:
- IX/50
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The 3XMM-DR6 catalogue contains source detections drawn from 9160 XMM-Newton EPIC observations, covering an energy interval from 0.2keV to 12keV. These observations were made between 2000 February 3 and 2015 June 4 and all datasets were publicly available by 2016 January 31, but not all public observations are included in this catalogue (see below for more information). Should you use the catalogue for your research and publish the results, please use the acknowledgement below and cite the paper describing 3XMM (Rosen, Webb, Watson et al., 2016A&A...590A...1R). This research has made use of data obtained from the 3XMM XMM-Newton serendipitous source catalogue compiled by the 10 institutes of the XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre selected by ESA. The following table gives an overview of the statistics of the catalogue in comparison with the 3XMM-DR4 catalogue. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3XMM-DR6 3XMM-DR5 Increment ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Number of observations 9160 7781 1379 Number of 'clean' observations (i.e., observation class < 3) 5947 4735 1212 Observing interval 03-Feb-00 03-Feb-00 2.5yr 04-Jun-15 20-Dec-13 Sky coverage, taking overlaps into account ( >=1ks exposure) 982sq.deg 877sq.deg 105sq.deg Number of detections 678680 565962 112718 Number of 'clean' detections (i.e., summary flag < 3) 552991 456904 96087 Number of unique sources 468440 396910 71530 Number of 'cleanest' (summary flag = 0, not in high-background fields) extended detections 11066 9082 1984 Number of detections with spectra 149968 133032 16936 Number of detections with timeseries 149968 133025 16943 Number of detections where probability of timeseries being constant is <1x10^-5^ 5238 4668 570 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The production and content of the 3XMM catalogue is described in the the 3XMM-DR6 User Guide at http://xmmssc.irap.omp.eu/Catalogue/3XMM-DR6/3XMM-DR6_Catalogue_User_Guide.html The "slim" version of the catalogue (file "xmm3r6s.dat") contains one row per unique source, while the the main catalogue has one row per detection. This slim version includes 44 columns, essentially those containing information about the unique sources, while the full catalogue (file "xmm3r6.fit") describes all detections with 323 columns. The slim version also contains a column with links to the summary pages in the IRAP catalogue archive. In the case of sources with multiple detections the summary page of the best detection is selected (i.e., the detection with the largest exposure time, summed over all cameras), and the summary page gives cross-links to the other detections. A separate file "summary.dat" contains the key details about the observations used in the construction of the 3XMM-DR6 catalogue.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/IX/59
- Title:
- XMM-Newton Serendipitous Source Catalogue 4XMM-DR9
- Short Name:
- IX/59
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Sky surveys produce enormous quantities of data on extensive regions of the sky. The easiest way to access this information is through catalogues of standardised data products. XMM-Newton has been surveying the sky in the X-ray, ultra-violet and optical bands for 20 years. The XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre has been producing standardised data products and catalogues to facilitate access to the serendipitous X-ray sky. Using improved calibration and enhanced software we re-reduced all of the 14041 XMM-Newton X-ray observations. 11204 observations contained data with at least one detection and with these we created a new, high quality version of the XMM-Newton serendipitous source catalogue, 4XMM-DR9. 4XMM-DR9 contains 810795 detections down to a detection significance of 3{sigma}, of which 550124 are unique sources, that cover 1152-degrees^2^ (2.85%) of the sky. Filtering 4XMM-DR9 to retain only the cleanest sources with at least a 5{sigma} detection significance leaves 433612 detections. 99.6% of these detections have no pileup. 336 columns of information on each detection are provided, along with images. The quality of the source detection is shown to have improved significantly with respect to previous versions of the catalogues. Spectra and lightcurves are also made available for more than 288000 of the brightest sources (36% of all detections).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/IX/41
- Title:
- XMM-Newton Serendipitous Source Catalogue 2XMMi-DR3
- Short Name:
- IX/41
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The 2XMMi-DR3 catalogue is the fifth publicly released XMM X-ray source catalogue produced by the XMM Survey Science Centre (SSC) consortium on behalf of ESA. It follows the 1XMM (Cat. IX/37, released in April 2003), 2XMMp (July 2006), 2XMM (Cat. IX/39, August 2007) and 2XMMi (Cat. IX/40, August 2008) catalogues: 2XMMp was a preliminary version of 2XMM. 2XMMi and 2XMMi-DR3 are incremental versions of the 2XMM catalogue. In summary, the versions are: -------------------------------------------- Name DR# Designation Year Cat. -------------------------------------------- 2XMMp 0 2XMMp-DR0 2006 2XMM 1 2XMM-DR1 2007 IX/39 2XMMi 2 2XMMi-DR2 2008 IX/40 2XMMi-DR3 3 2XMMi-DR3 2010 IX/41 -------------------------------------------- The production and content of the 2XMM catalogue is described in detail in "The XMM-Newton serendipitous survey. V. The second XMM-Newton serendipitous source catalogue", M.G. Watson et al., 2009A&A...493..339W; there are no significant differences in the processing between the 2XMM, 2XMMi and 2XMMi-DR3 observations The "slim" version of the catalogue (file "xmm2r3s.dat") contains one row per unique source, while the the main catalogue has one row per detection. This slim version includes 38 columns, essentially those containing information about the unique sources, while the full catalogue (file "xmm2r3.fit") describes the 353191 detections with 299 columns. The slim version also contains a column with links to the LEDAS summary pages. In the case of sources with multiple detections the summary page of the best detection is selected (i.e., the detection with the largest exposure time, summed over all cameras), and the summary page gives cross-links to the other detections.