Continued Post-Launch Support of XMM Newton in the UK: the XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Leicester
Department Name: Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
The XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre (SSC) is an international collaboration involving a consortium of 10 institutions in the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. The SSC plays a major scientific role in the XMM-Newton project including: (i) the development and maintenance of the XMM-Newton science analysis software; (ii) the routine scientific processing of all XMM-Newton observations; (iii) the ground-based follow-up/identification programme for the XMM-Newton serendipitous survey; (iv) the compilation of the XMM-Newton Source Catalogues. These activities play an important role in the scientific success of XMM-Newton. To take one example, the XMM-Newton serendipitous source catalogues provide a major resource that enable astronomers to explore the population of X-ray emitting objects in the sky. These include some of the most exotic objects currently known, including supermassive black holes at the centres of galaxies, the hot gas that fills the space between the galaxies in clusters, dramatically active stars with hot coronae, binary systems powered by accretion onto a neutron star or black hole and the shock-heated gaseous remnants of supernova explosions.
Organisations
Publications
Jackson F
(2012)
On the nature of high X-ray luminosities in Sloan Digital Sky Survey galaxies High X-ray luminosities in SDSS galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Krumpe M
(2008)
X-ray absorption in distant type II QSOs
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Martínez-Sansigre A
(2007)
Evidence for a large fraction of Compton-thick quasars at high redshift
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Mateos S
(2012)
Using the Bright Ultrahard XMM-Newton survey to define an IR selection of luminous AGN based on WISE colours AGN selection with WISE
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Mateos S
(2008)
High precision X-ray log N - log S distributions: implications for the obscured AGN population
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Mateos S
(2010)
The XMM- Newton Wide Angle Survey (XWAS): the X-ray spectrum of type-1 AGN
in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Memola E
(2007)
Searching for absorbed AGN in the 2XMM- Newton pre-release EPIC Serendipitous Source Catalogue
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Motch C
(2010)
The X-ray source content of the XMM-Newton Galactic plane survey
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Nebot Gómez-Morán A
(2013)
The XMM-Newton SSC survey of the Galactic plane
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Page M
(2007)
The XMM-SSC survey of hard-spectrum XMM-Newton sources - I. Optically bright sources
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society