37th XMM-SSC Consortium Meeting 2026

The source-detector's view on 5XMM

17 Mar 2026, 17:30

20m

Lecture Hall, Maria Margaretha Kirch Building (Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP))

Talk (Science Advisory Group) XMM-Newton & SAS status

Speaker

Dr Iris Traulsen (Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP))

Description

AIP leads the development of the XMM-Newton source detection tasks and performs (stacked) source detections on all catalogue observations. This talk summarises the detection method chosen for the 5XMM catalogue, the related code changes, and the challenges and results of processing 14616 observations for 5XMM-DR15.