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The XMM-Newton serendipitous survey

S. R. Rosen, N. A. Webb, M. G. Watson, J. Ballet, D. Barret, V. Braito, F. J. Carrera, M. T. Ceballos, M. Coriat, R. Della Ceca, G. Denkinson, P. Esquej, S. A. Farrell, M. J. Freyberg, Fabien Grisé, P. Guillout, L. Heil, F. Koliopanos, D. Law-Green, G. Lamer, Dacheng Lin, R. Martino, Laurent Michel, C. Motch, A. Nebot Gómez-Morán, C. G. Page, K. L. Page, K. L. Page, M. W. Pakull, J. P. Pye, A. Read, P. M. Rodriguez‐Pascual, M. Sakano, R. D. Saxton, A. Schwope, A. E. Scott, R. Sturm, I. Traulsen, V. N. Yershov, I. Zolotukhin

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Context. Thanks to the large collecting area (3 ×~1500 cm2 at 1.5 keV) and wide field of view (30′ across in full field mode) of the X-ray cameras on board the European Space Agency X-ray observatory XMM-Newton, each individual pointing can result in the detection of up to several hundred X-ray sources, most of which are newly discovered objects. Since XMM-Newton has now been in orbit for more than 15 yr, hundreds of thousands of sources have been detected.

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Context. Thanks to the large collecting area (3 ×~1500 cm2 at 1.5 keV) and wide field of view (30′ across in full field mode) of the X-ray cameras on board the European Space Agency X-ray observatory XMM-Newton, each individual pointing can result in the detection of up to several hundred X-ray sources, most of which are newly discovered objects. Since XMM-Newton has now been in orbit for more than 15 yr, hundreds of thousands of sources have been detected.

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Context. Thanks to the large collecting area (3 ×~1500 cm2 at 1.5 keV) and wide field of view (30′ across in full field mode) of the X-ray cameras on board the European Space Agency X-ray observatory XMM-Newton, each individual pointing can result in the detection of up to several hundred X-ray sources, most of which are newly discovered objects. Since XMM-Newton has now been in orbit for more than 15 yr, hundreds of thousands of sources have been detected.

Key concepts: Observatory, Physics, Sky, Data reduction, Spurious relationship, Calibration, Sensitivity (control systems), Astrophysics

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