Simulations of the serendipitous X-ray sky (8.7K)

The goal of the XID programme is to ensure that the full potential of the XMM serendipitous sky survey can be exploited by the scientific community.

Its implementation has been divided into two parts:

A core programme which will identify spectroscopically significant samples of sources at X-ray flux limits of:

10¹³ erg cm²s¹ (bright sample)
10^-14erg cm² s¹ (medium sample)
10¹⁵erg cm²s¹ (faint sample)

covering a range of Galactic latitudes.

An imaging programme which aims to provide deep optical/infrared images in several colours of a large number of XMM fields to facilitate statistical identifications of the serendipitous sources.

Last modified 10th March 2000
Text based on AXIS proposal by X.Barcons and the SSC consortium.
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