XMM-Newton-NEWS

 

XMM-Newton-NEWS  #273,    17-Oct-2023

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Contents:

  • New version of the XMM-Newton OM catalogue (XMM-OM-SUSS6.0)
  • XSA V16.2 release with access to the XMM-OM-SUSS6.0 catalogue
  • The X-Ray Universe 2023: videos of the presentation on-line

New version of the XMM-Newton OM catalogue (XMM-OM-SUSS6.0)

The sixth version of the XMM-Newton Optical Monitor (OM) Serendipitous Ultraviolet Source Survey Catalogue (XMM-OM-SUSS6) has been released. In this version, a change of approach is adopted, in which data incorporated into the catalogue now derive from the standard XMM pipeline processing system rather than a bespoke processing of OM data; this has been done to ensure consistency of catalogue data with the XMM-Newton Science Archive (XSA).

XMM-OM-SUSS6 contains data from 12057 OM observations, obtained between February 2000 and November 2022. The catalogue comprises photometric measurements from 9.92 million detections of sources observed with one or more optical and/or UV filters, of fields generally observed contemporaneously with the XMM-Newton EPIC cameras. These detections correspond to 6.66 million unique sources, of which 1.23 million have more than one detection in the catalogue, thus facilitating the analysis of potential variability on timescales of days to years.

The XMM-OM-SUSS6 catalogue can be accessed through the XSA search interface. Besides, both the complete catalogue and a reduced version can be downloaded from the XSA Web page.

The catalogue fundamentals are described in Page et al. (2012).

 

XSA V16.2 RELEASE WITH ACCESS TO THE XMM-OM-SUSS6.0 CATALOGUE

A new version of the XMM-Newton Science Archive (XSA v16.2) is available at

https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/xsa
 

XSA v16.2 provides access to the new versions of the XMM-OM-SUSS6.0 Source Catalogue.

 

THE X-RAY UNIVERSE 2023: VIDEOS OF THE PRESENTATIONS ON-LINE

The symposium: "The X-ray Universe 2023" took place in Athens (Greece) from the 13th to the 16th of June 2023, with more than 300 participants.

About 150 presentations were given during the meeting. Videos of all of them have been made available on-line at

https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/programme

 

Yours sincerely,

XMM-Newton SOC