| DOI | https://doi.org/10.57780/esa-y9l9jwg |
| Name | The fourth XMM-Newton serendipitous source catalogue |
| Mission | XMM-Newton |
| Portal URL | https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/xsa |
| Content URL | https://nxsa.esac.esa.int/catalogues/4xmmdr14_240411.fits.gz |
| Version | DR14 |
| Date Published | 9th of July, 2024 |
| Description |
The 4XMM-DR14 catalogue contains source detections drawn from 13864 XMM-Newton EPIC observations, covering an energy interval from 0.2 keV to 12 keV. A total of 1,035,832 sources have been detected.These observations were made between 2000 February 3 and 2023 December 31 and all datasets were publicly available by 2023 December 31, but not all public observations are included in this catalogue. The catalogue also providesMulti-Order-Coverage maps (MOCs) and EPIC flux maps for each observation. In the flux maps, each point provides the limiting flux for a source detected at 3 sigma in the 0.2-12.0 keV band (assuming a power law spectrum with a photon index of 1.42 and an nH of 1.7x1020 cm-2). |
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| Temporal Coverage | From 2000 February 1 to 2023 December 31 |
| Mission description | The European Space Agency's (ESA) X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission (XMM-Newton) is ESA’s flagship of high-energy astronomy. Launched by an Ariane 504 on December 10th 1999, it is ESA’s second cornerstone of the Horizon 2000 Science Programme. It carries 3 high throughput X-ray telescopes with an unprecedented effective area, and an optical monitor, the first flown on a X-ray observatory. The large collecting area and ability to make long uninterrupted exposures provide highly sensitive observations and a long baseline for multiwavelength timing analysis. Since Earth's atmosphere blocks out all X-rays, only a telescope in space can detect and study celestial X-ray sources. The XMM-Newton mission looks deep into galaxy centres, studies stars at all stages of their lives, follows up on explosive events, investigates what happens around black holes and in this way allows us to learn how the Universe was formed and evolved, and how matter behaves under the most extreme conditions. Observing time on XMM-Newton is being made available to the scientific community, applying for observational periods on a competitive basis. |
| Creator contact | https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/xmm-newton-helpdesk |
| Author | XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre |
| Publisher and Registrant | European Space Agency |
| Acknowledgement | This work was supported by the CordisEU project: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101004168 and CNES, focused on XMM-Newton. |
| Date Modified | 2024-07-21 |
| Citation Guidelines | European Space Agency, XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre, 2024, The fourth XMM-Newton serendipitous source catalogue, Version DR14, European Space Agency, https://doi.org/10.57780/esa-y9l9jwg |