The XMM-Newton Slew Survey: a wide-angle survey in the 0.2 - 12 keV band

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2005-12-06

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0512157v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages, 6 figures, to appear in the proceedings of "The X-ray Universe 2005", San Lorenzo de El Escorial (Spain), 26-30 Septe

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The scientific data collected during slews of the XMM-Newton satellite are used to construct a slew survey catalogue. This comprises of the order of 4000 sources detected in the EPIC-pn 0.2-12 keV band with exposures of less than 15s and a sky coverage of about 6300 square degrees (source density ~0.65 per square degree). Below 2 keV the sensitivity limit is comparable to the ROSAT PSPC All-Sky Survey and the XMM-Newton slew survey offers long-term variablity studies. Above 2 keV the survey will be a factor of 10 more sensitive than all previous all-sky X-ray surveys. The slew survey is almost complementary to the serendipitous survey compiled from pointed XMM-Newton observations. It is aimed to release the first source catalogue by the end of 2005. Later slew observations and detections will continuously be added. This paper discusses the XMM-Newton slew survey also in a historical context.

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