XXL - An overview of the ultimate XMM extragalactic survey
by
Marguerite Pierre
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Europe/Stockholm
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Description
In December 2010, the XXL survey, an XMM Very Large Programme, has been
granted time to map two extragalactic regions of 25 square degrees, at a depth of
5*10^(-15) erg/s/cm^2 (i.e. using 10 ks XMM observations).
This is the largest XMM programme ever allocated.
The main goal of the project is to constrain the Dark Energy equation of
state using clusters of galaxies. This survey will also have lasting legacy
value for cluster scaling laws and studies of AGNs, galaxies and XRB.
We present the layout of the some 450 XMM observations. We discuss the most
relevant science topics along with the associated multi-$\lambda$ surveys.
We give an overview of the working organisation of the project as well as
plans for the catalogue releases.
We'll be happy to discuss the future involvement of Swedish scientists in
the project.
