First Results from the XMM-Newton Observation in the Groth-Westphal Survey Strip Region
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We present the first results of the XMM-Newton observation on the Groth-Westphal Strip Field. The scheduled exposure time was 70 [ks]. We first analyzed about 50 [ks] of calibrated and cleaned EPIC-PN data, which were the only ones we could successfully process with an early version of the SAS software applicable to these observations. A total of about 110 sources have been detected in the central 10 arcmin of the PN field of view (FOV). A cross-correlation with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Medium Deep Survey (MDS) database shows a range of morphological properties of host galaxies of the X-ray source. Spectra of hard X-ray sources in our data indeed show absorption in the range N_H~10^{22}-10^{23} [cm^{-2}] at z~1.
5 page, 4 postscript figures, to appear in the proceedings of the XXIst Moriond Astrophysics Meeting "Galaxy Clusters and the High Redshift Universe Observed in X-rays" held in Les Arcs, France, March 2001
5 page, 4 postscript figures, to appear in the proceedings of the XXIst Moriond Astrophysics Meeting "Galaxy Clusters and the High Redshift Universe Observed in X-rays" held in Les Arcs, France, March 2001