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2XMM J100451.6+411627: A cool core cluster at z=0.82
Matthias Hoeft, Georg Lamer, Jan Kohnert +1
- Aims: Gas cooling in the centre of massive galaxy clusters is believed to feed the most powerful active galactic nuclei in the Universe. How often clusters at high redshift show…
High precision X-ray logN-logS distributions: implications for the obscured AGN population
S. Mateos, R. S. Warwick, F. J. Carrera +13
We have constrained the extragalactic source count distributions over a broad range of X-ray fluxes and in various energy bands to test whether the predictions from X-ray backgroun…
The XMM-Newton Serendipitous Survey. V. The Second XMM-Newton Serendipitous Source Catalogue
M. G. Watson, A. C. Schröder, D. Fyfe +47
Aims: Pointed observations with XMM-Newton provide the basis for creating catalogues of X-ray sources detected serendipitously in each field. This paper describes the creation and…
The Subaru/XMM-Newton Deep Survey (SXDS): III. X-Ray Data
Yoshihiro Ueda, Michael G. Watson, Ian M. Stewart +10
We present the X-ray source catalog in the Subaru/XMM-Newton deep survey. A continuous area of 1.14 deg^2 centered at R.A. = 02h18m and Dec. = -05d is mapped by seven pointings wit…
2XMM J083026+524133: The most X-ray luminous cluster at redshift 1
G. Lamer, M. Hoeft, J. Kohnert +2
In the distant universe X-ray luminous clusters of galaxies are rare objects. Large area surveys are therefore needed to probe the high luminosity end of the cluster population at…
X-ray absorption in distant type II QSOs
M. Krumpe, G. Lamer, A. Corral +7
We present the results of the X-ray spectral analysis of an XMM-Newton-selected type II QSO sample with z>0.5 and 0.5-10 keV flux of 0.3-33 x 10^{-14} erg/s/cm^2. The distribution…
Indications for 3 Mpc-scale large-scale structure associated with an X-ray luminous cluster of galaxies at z=0.95
R. Fassbender, H. Boehringer, G. Lamer +5
X-ray luminous clusters of galaxies at z~1 are emerging as major cosmological probes and are fundamental tools to study the cosmic large-scale structure and environmental effects o…
The XMM-Newton Serendipitous Survey V. Optical identification of the XMM-Newton Medium sensitivity Survey (XMS)
X. Barcons, F. J. Carrera, M. T. Ceballos +53
We present the XMM-Newton Medium sensitivity Survey (XMS), including a total of 318 X-ray sources found among the serendipitous content of 25 XMM-Newton target fields. The XMS comp…
BLOX: The Bonn Lensing, Optical, and X-ray selected galaxy clusters -- I. Cluster catalog construction
J. P. Dietrich, T. Erben, G. Lamer +4
The mass function of galaxy clusters is an important cosmological probe. Differences in the selection method could potentially lead to biases when determining the mass function. Fr…
RBS1423 - a new QSO with relativistic reflection from an ionised disk
M. Krumpe, G. Lamer, A. D. Schwope +1
We present the analysis and results of a 20 ks XMM-Newton observation of RBS1423. X-ray spectral analysis is used to establish a significantly broadened relativistic iron K-alpha l…
The XMM-SSC survey of hard-spectrum XMM-Newton sources 1: optically bright sources
M. J. Page, I. Lehmann, Th. Boller +15
We present optical and X-ray data for a sample of serendipitous XMM-Newton sources that are selected to have 0.5-2 keV vs 2-4.5 keV X-ray hardness ratios which are harder than the…
The XMM-Newton serendipitous survey IV. The AXIS X-ray source counts and angular clustering
F. J. Carrera, J. Ebrero, S. Mateos +14
AXIS (An XMM-Newton International Survey) is a survey of 36 high Galactic latitude XMM-Newton observations covering 4.8 deg2 and containing 1433 serendipitous X-ray sources detecte…
Searching for absorbed AGN in the 2XMM-Newton pre-release EPIC Serendipitous Source Catalogue
Elisabetta Memola, Alessandro Caccianiga, Filomena Cocchia +7
We aim to test a method of efficiently selecting X-ray obscured AGN in the 2XMM-Newton EPIC Serendipitous Source Catalogue. By means of a strong correlation established using the X…
The XMM-Newton Survey in the Marano Field I. The X-ray data and optical follow-up
M. Krumpe, G. Lamer, A. D. Schwope +6
We report on a medium deep XMM-Newton survey of the Marano Field and optical follow-up observations. The mosaicked XMM-Newton pointings in this optical quasar survey field cover 0.…
Strange magnification pattern in the large separation lens SDSS J1004+4112 from optical to X-rays
G. Lamer, A. Schwope, L. Wisotzki +1
We present simultaneous XMM-Newton UV and X-ray observations of the quadruply lensed quasar SDSS J1004+4112 (RBS 825). Simultaneously with the XMM-Newton observations we also perfo…
Discovery of an X-ray-Luminous Galaxy Cluster at z=1.4
C. R. Mullis, P. Rosati, G. Lamer +4
We report the discovery of a massive, X-ray-luminous cluster of galaxies at z=1.393, the most distant X-ray-selected cluster found to date. XMMU J2235.3-2557 was serendipitously de…
X-ray spectra of XMM-Newton serendipitous medium flux sources
S. Mateos, X. Barcons, F. J. Carrera +7
We report on the results of a detailed analysis of the X-ray spectral properties of a large sample of sources detected serendipitously with the XMM-Newton observatory in 25 selecte…
Exploring the X-ray Sky with the XMM-Newton Bright Serendipitous Survey
R. Della Ceca, T. Maccacaro, A. Caccianiga +11
ABRIDGED. We present "The XMM-Newton Bright Serendipitous Survey", two flux-limited samples with flux limit fx ~7E-14 cgs in the 0.5-4.5 keV (BSS) and 4.5-7.5 keV (HBSS) energy ban…
Complex X-ray spectral behaviour of NGC 4051 in the low flux state
P. Uttley, R. D. Taylor, I. M. McHardy +4
The Narrow Line Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4051 was observed in one of its prolonged low-lux states by XMM-Newton in November 2002. Here we present the results of an analysis of EPIC-pn…
Catching NGC4051 in the low state with XMM-Newton
P. Uttley, R. D. Taylor, I. M. McHardy +4
The Narrow Line Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC4051 shows unusual low flux states, lasting several months, when the 2-10 keV X-ray spectrum becomes unusually hard (photon index<1) while the s…
Catching NGC 4051 in the low state with Chandra
P. Uttley, A. Fruscione, I. McHardy +1
We report the results from a Chandra TOO observation of the low-luminosity Narrow Line Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4051, obtained during a 6-week duration low-flux state in 2001 February.…
A serendipitous survey for galaxy clusters by the XMM-Newton Survey Science Center
A. D. Schwope, G. Lamer, D. Burke +5
We describe the initial results of a programme to detect and identify extended X-ray sources found serendipitously in XMM-Newton observations. We have analysed 186 EPIC-PN images a…
An absorption event in the X-ray lightcurve of NGC 3227
G. Lamer, P. Uttley, I. M. McHardy
We have monitored the Seyfert galaxy NGC 3227 with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) since January 1999. During late 2000 and early 2001 we observed an unusual hardening of th…
The XMM-Newton Serendipitous Source Catalogue
M. G. Watson, J. P. Pye, M. Denby +17
We describe the production, properties and scientific potential of the XMM-Newton catalogue of serendipitous X-ray sources. The first version of this catalogue is nearing completio…