A Deep XMM-Newton Serendipitous Survey of a middle-latitude area. II. New deeper X-ray and optical observations

Details A Deep XMM-Newton Serendipitous Survey of a middle-latitude area. II. New deeper X-ray and optical observations A Deep XMM-Newton Serendipitous Survey of a middle-latitude area. II. New deeper X-ray and optical observations

2009-04-24

arxiv.org/abs/0904.3825v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

19 pages, 16 figures, 5 tables. Accepted for publication by Astronomy & Astrophysics

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The radio-quiet neutron star 1E1207.4-5209 has been the target of several XMM-Newton observations, with a total exposure of ~350 ks. The source is located at intermediate galactic latitude (b~10 degrees), i.e. in a sky region with an extremely interesting mix of both galactic and extra-galactic X-ray sources. The aim of our work is to investigate the properties of both the intermediate-latitude galactic and extra-galactic X-ray source populations in the 1E1207.4-5209 field. We performed a coherent analysis of the whole XMM-Newton observation data set to build a catalogue of serendipitous X-ray sources detected with high confidence and to derive information on the source flux, spectra, and time variability. In addition, we performed a complete multi-band (UBVRI) optical coverage of the field with the Wide Field Imager (WFI) of the ESO/MPG 2.2m telescope (La Silla) to search for candidate optical counterparts to the X-ray sources, down to a V-band limiting magnitude of ~24.5. We detected a total of 144 serendipitous X-ray sources. Thanks to the refined X-ray positions and to the WFI observations, we found candidate optical counterparts for most of the X-ray sources in our compilation. For most of the brightest ones we proposed a likely classification based on both the X-ray spectra and the optical colours. Our results indicate that at intermediate galactic latitude the X-ray source population is dominated by the extra-galactic component, but with a significant contribution from the galactic component in the soft energy band, below 2 keV.

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