The XMM-Newton Bright Serendipitous Source Sample (XMM-Newton BSS)

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dc.creatorDella Ceca, R.
dc.creatorMaccacaro, T.
dc.creatorCaccianiga, A.
dc.creatorSevergnini, P.
dc.creatorBarcons, X.
dc.creatorBarret, D.
dc.creatorCarrera, F.
dc.creatorHasinger, G.
dc.creatorMcMahon, R. G.
dc.creatorMotch, C.
dc.creatorPietsch, W.
dc.creatorPage, M. J.
dc.creatorRosen, S.
dc.creatorSchwope, A.
dc.creatorWatson, M. G.
dc.creatorWebb, N. A.
dc.creatorWorrall, D. M.
dc.creatorZiaeepour, H.
dc.date2002-02-07
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T02:02:43Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T02:02:43Z
dc.descriptionThe XMM-Newton Survey Science Center is constructing a large (~1000 sources) and complete sample of bright serendipitous XMM-Newton sources at high galactic latitude, so as to allow both the discovery of sources of high individual interest as well as statistical population studies. The sample, known as ``The XMM-Newton Bright Serendipitous Source Sample" (XMM-Newton BSS), has a flux limit of ~10^(-13) cgs in the 0.5--4.5 keV energy band and will be fundamental in complementing other medium and deep survey programs (having fluxes 10 to 100 times fainter) in order to: a) characterize the X-ray sky and its constituents, b) understand the evolution of the population selected and c) define statistical identification procedures to select rare and interesting populations of X-ray sources (e.g. high z clusters of galaxies, BL Lacs, type 2 QSOs, etc..). We discuss here the scientific rationale and the details of the project and we present some preliminary results.
dc.description8 pages, 5 figures, Latex manuscript, Proc. Symnposium ``New Visions of the X-ray Universe in the XMM-Newton and Chandra Era", 26-30 November 2001, ESTEC, The Netherlands
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0202150
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0202150
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/4139
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleThe XMM-Newton Bright Serendipitous Source Sample (XMM-Newton BSS)
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