X-ray Multi-Mirror (XMM) Optical Monitor images

The Newton X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission (XMM) was launched in December, 1999 with a projected lifetime of 10 years. Although intended primarily as an X-ray observatory, XMM included a small but powerful optical/UV 30 cm telescope co-aligned with the X-ray telescopes for contemporaneous observations. The modified Ritchey-Chretien telescope is capable of detecting 24th magnitude sources in its 17 arcmin field of view. It provides images in the 160-600nm wave band with 1 arcsec resolution. MAST is serving a OM Mosaic product that uses a pipeline described by Kuntz et. al. OMCat: Catalog of Serendipitous Sources Detected with the XMM-Newton Optical Monitor PASP, 120:740-758

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Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/mast.stsci/siap/xmm-om
Related Identifier http://archive.stsci.edu/xmm-om/
Metadata Access http://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/pmh/pubreg.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_b2find&identifier=ivo://mast.stsci/siap/xmm-om
Provenance
Creator ESA
Publisher Space Telescope Science Institute Archive
Publication Year 2012
OpenAccess true
Contact Archive Branch, STScI <archive(at)stsci.edu>
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Resource Type Other; AstroObjects
Version 1.0
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics