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Dec 2001
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001aas...19914805w&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, 199th AAS Meeting, #148.05; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 33, p.1528
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XMM-Newton provides a powerful facility for X-ray surveys by virtue of its high sensitivity and large field of view, coupled with excellent hard X-ray response. The XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre (SSC) is carrying out a programme of identification and follow-up of significant samples of sources serendipitously discovered in EPIC observations. This project, underway since mid-2000, involves a substantial programme of spectroscopic identifications (over 300 sources have already been identified), coupled with extensive deep optical/infrared imaging of XMM-Newton fields (around 100 fields have been observed so far; ultimately these data will provide a much larger sample of `statistically' identified sources). The programme includes both high and low-latitude samples. Initial analysis of the high Galactic latitude sample shows that it is mostly populated by different classes of AGN: normal broad-line AGN and QSOs (including a relevant fraction of BAL and zabs ~ zem QSOs), narrow-line AGN (including QSO-2 candidates), optically inactive but X-ray luminous galaxies and other interesting objects. In the galactic plane the source population is dominated by coronally active stars as expected, but a number of accreting binaries have also been detected. This paper will describe progress on this programme to date and will present the first quantitative studies based on these data.
Watson Michael G.
XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre Team
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