1567216949687-XMM-Newton_all-sky_slew-410

The third version of the XMM-Newton slew survey catalogue (XMMSL3) is now out

    1567216949687-XMM-Newton_all-sky_slew-410

     

    The third version of the XMM-Newton slew survey catalogue, XMMSL3, was released on 19th February 2025 by the XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre (XMM-SSC) in collaboration with the SOC. This version includes an extra 8.5 years of data, there are 140735 X-ray detections, which relate to 116598 unique sources, doubling the number of detections available in the previous version, XMMSL2. This catalogue version covers more than 90% of the sky, where some regions of the sky have been pointed as many as 78 times. Around 8% of all the detections are classified as extended. The median positional uncertainty of the catalogue detections is 13 arcseconds. Mean fluxes in the catalogue are ~2.8E-12 and ~6.5E-11 erg/cm2/s in the soft (0.2-2 keV) and hard (2-12 keV) X-ray bands, respectively.

     

    Details of the catalogue, the catalogue files and full XMMSL3 documentation are available on the XMM-SSC webpages ( http://xmmssc.irap.omp.eu  ) at:

    http://xmmssc.irap.omp.eu/Catalogue/XMMSL3/XMMSL3.html 

    FITS and CSV versions of the full XMMSL3 catalogue are also available for download at

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

    Alongside the XSA user interface, XMMSL3 is also distributed through:

    The XMM-Newton XSA : http://nxsa.esac.esa.int/nxsa-web/#search 
    ESASky : https://sky.esa.int/esasky/ 
    HEASARC Browse : http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/db-perl/W3Browse/w3browse.pl