2005/10/31 by R. Della Ceca, A. Caccianiga, Della Ceca, R. +9
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Particle Accelerators and Free-Electron Lasers #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0510845
6 pages, 3 figures, proceedings of the conference "The X-ray Universe 2005", held in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain, 26-30 September 2005, organized by the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) of ESA
arxiv created 2005/10/31 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
We discuss here the main goals and some interesting results of the "XMM-Newton Bright Serendipitous Survey", a research program conducted by the XMM-Newton Survey Science Center in two complementary energy bands (0.5-4.5 keV and 4.5-7.5 keV) in the bright (>~7E-14) flux regime. The very high identification rate (96%) for the X-ray source sample selected in the 4.5-7.5 keV band is used here to have, in this energy range, an "unbiased" view of the extragalactic hard X-ray sky at bright fluxes.