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Lockman Hole XMM-Newton X-Ray Point Source Catalog

Metadata Updated: February 6, 2026

The Lockman Hole represents the sky area of lowest Galactic line-of-sight columns density. It was observed by the XMM-Newton X-ray observatory in 18 pointings performed between April 2000 and December 2002. The total exposure time spent on the field was 1.16 Ms (EPIC pn detector; EPIC MOS detector: 1.30 Ms). The effective exposure after removal of times of high particle background is 637 ks (EPIC pn detector; EPIC MOS detector: 765 ks). The catalog lists positions, count rates, fluxes, hardness ratios, and partial optical classifications of 409 X-ray point sources detected in the central 0.196 square degrees of the field down to a detection likelihood threshold in the full energy band of 10 (3.9 sigma), up to 4 of which may be spurious according to the authors' Monte Carlo simulations. The analysis was performed using the XMM-Newton SAS data analysis package version 6.0. This table was created by the HEASARC in May 2008 based on the <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/479/283">CDS Catalog J/A+A/479/283</a> file table3.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
Metadata Updated Date February 6, 2026

Metadata Source

Harvested from NASA Data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
Metadata Updated Date February 6, 2026
Publisher High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center
Maintainer
Identifier ivo://nasa.heasarc/lockmanxm2
Data Last Modified 2026-02-03
Category Astrophysics
Public Access Level public
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Homepage URL https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/lockmanxm2.html
Program Code 026:000
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Source Hash 13b4e4acc6bff82cb8bd356d3b9545ebb9f8f564e4de86942343d566c5d74208
Source Schema Version 1.1

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