The XMM-Newton Slew Survey
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astro-ph/0506380
From: Dr. Andy Read [view email]
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 13:38:40 GMT (185kb)
The XMM-Newton Slew Survey
Authors:
A. M. Read (1),
R. D. Saxton (2),
M. P. Esquej (2),
M. J. Freyberg (3),
B. Altieri (2) ((1) Leicester University, UK, (2) ESAC, Spain,(3) MPE, Germany)
Comments: 3 pages, 4 figures, XMM-Newton EPIC Consortium Meeting, Schloss
Ringberg, Germany, April 2005, to appear in MPE Report
XMM-Newton, with the huge collecting area of its mirrors and the high quantum
efficiency of its EPIC detectors, is the most sensitive X-ray observatory ever
flown. This is strikingly evident during slew exposures, which, while yielding
only at most 14 seconds of on-source exposure time, actually constitute a 2-10
keV survey ten times deeper than all other "all-sky" surveys. The current
(April 2005) XMM archive contains 374 slew exposures which give a uniform
coverage over around 10,000 square degrees (approx. 25% of the sky). Here we
describe the results of pilot studies, the current status of the XMM-Newton
Slew Survey, up-to-date results and our progress towards constructing a
catalogue of slew detections in the full 0.2-12 keV energy band.
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