The first XMM-Newton slew survey catalogue: XMMSL1

By R. Saxton, A. Read, P. Esquej, M. Freyberg, B. Altieri, D. Bermejo. 2008

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We report on the production of a large area, shallow, sky survey, from XMM-Newton slews. The great collecting area of the mirrors coupled with the high quantum efficiency of the EPIC detectors have made XMM-Newton the most sensitive X-ray observatory flown to date. We use data taken with the EPIC-pn camera during slewing manoeuvres to perform an X-ray survey of the sky. Data from 218 slews have been subdivided into small images and source searched. This has been done in three distinct energy bands; a soft (0.2-2 keV) band, a hard (2-12 keV) band and a total XMM-Newton band (0.2-12 keV). Detected sources, have been quality controlled to remove artifacts and a catalogue has been drawn from the remaining sources. A 'full' catalogue, containing 4710 detections and a 'clean' catalogue containing 2692 sources have been produced, from 14% of the sky. In the hard X-ray band (2-12 keV) 257 sources are detected in the clean catalogue to a flux limit of 4x10^-12 ergs/s/cm2. The flux limit for the soft (0.2-2 keV) band is 6x10^-13 ergs/s/cm2 and for the total (0.2-12 keV) band is 1.2x10^-12 ergs/s/cm2. The source positions are shown to have an uncertainty of 8" (1-sigma confidence).

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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The Fifteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release of MaNGA-derived Quantities, Data Visualization Tools, and Stellar Library (2018, methodology): “The SPIDERS DR14 catalog is based on a clean sample of 9399 sources from the Second ROSAT All-Sky Survey catalog (2RXS; Boller et al. 2016) and 1413 sources from the first XMM-Newton Slew survey catalog (XMMSL1; Saxton et al. 2008) with optical spectra available.”
Properties of flat-spectrum radio-loud Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies (2014, methodology): “For X-rays, we searched for missing sources in theC andra X-Assist (CXA, Ptak & Griffiths 2003) catalog v.4 andXMM– NewtonSlew Survey Clean Sample v.1.5 (XSS, Saxton et al. 2008).”
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog: Sixteenth Data Release (2020, result): “ROSAT/2RXS Unlike the other surveys mentioned in this section, a single coordinate-match with the ROSAT/2RXS (Boller et al. 2016) and XMMSL243 (Saxton et al. 2008) would not provide a reliable association.”
New Physical Insights about Tidal Disruption Events from a Comprehensive Observational Inventory at X-Ray Wavelengths (2016, methodology): “As XMM manoeuvres between pointed observations, all three detectors (MOS1, MOS2, PN) are still recording data using the observing mode of the previous pointed observation (Saxton et al. 2008).”
Second ROSAT all-sky survey (2RXS) source catalogue (2016, methodology): “The deviation from the one-to-one line arises because XMMSL1 has a lower sensitivity than 2RXS, which is of the order of about one counts s−1, while the 2RXS count rates decrease to about a few 10−3 counts s−1.”