The XMM-Newton Serendipitous Survey^*

I. The role of XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre

¹ X-ray Astronomy Group, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Leicester University, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
² DSM/DAPNIA/SAp, Bât. 709, CEA-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
³ Instituto de Fisíca de Cantabria (CSIC-UC), 39005 Santander, Spain
⁴ Centre d'Étude Spatiale des Rayonnements, 31028 Toulouse, France
⁵ Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, 85741 Garching bei München, Germany
⁶ Centre for Astrophysics, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, PR1 2HE, UK
⁷ Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam (AIP), 14482 Potsdam, Germany
⁸ Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, Holmbury St. Mary, Dorking RH5 6NT, UK
⁹ SOC, Villafranca, 28080 Madrid, Spain
¹⁰ Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge MA 02138, USA
¹¹ Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 OHA, UK
¹² Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg, 67000 Strasbourg, France
¹³ NASA-GSFC/HEASARC-Raytheon Co.
¹⁴ Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, 20121 Milano, Italy
¹⁵ Subaru Telescope/NAOJ, Hilo, HI 96720, USA
¹⁶ LHEA, NASA-GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
¹⁷ Dept.of Physics, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TL, UK

M. G. Watson

Received: 2 October 2000
Accepted: 27 October 2000

Abstract

This paper describes the performance of XMM-Newton for serendipitous surveys and summarises the scope and potential of the XMM-Newton Serendipitous Survey. The role of the Survey Science Centre (SSC) in the XMM-Newton project is outlined. The SSC's follow-up and identification programme for the XMM-Newton serendipitous survey is described together with the presentation of some of the first results.