New record set for cosmic X-Ray sightings.....
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WASHINGTON - Scientists have set a new record for cosmic X-Ray sources ever sighted-creating an unprecedented cosmic X-Ray catalogue that will provide a valuable resource allowing astronomers to explore the extreme universe.
The XMM-Newton Survey Science Center, led by a team from th University of Leicester's Department of Physics and Astronomy, used th University's 'ALICE' supercomputer to help them produce a new X-Ray catalogue, dubbed "3XMM".
This new catalogue contains over half a million X-Ray source detections, representing a 50 percent increase over previous catalogues, and is the largest catalogues of X-Ray sources ever produced.
This vast inventory is also home to some of the rarest and most extreme phenomena in the universe, such as tidal disruption events when a black hole swallows another star, producing prodigious outbursts of X-Ray emission.
The catalogue contains more than a half million sources, all of which are provided to a better quality than ever before, "Professor MIKE WATSON of the university of LEICESTER, who leads th XMM-Newton survey science center ,said,
"Using the university's 2.2 million pound high performance computer meant we could process th data up to a hundred times faster than before. This was key for testing and implementing advanced new processing strategies.
The catalogue provides enormous scope for new discoveries as well as in depth studies of large samples. XMM-Newton is pre-eminent amongst current X-Ray missions in its ability to perform 'survey' science, with a chance to find previously undetected objects and then explore their properties, he said..
The catalogue provides an exceptional dataset for generating large, well-defined samples of objects such as active galactic nuclei, clusters of galaxies, interacting compact binaries, and active stellar coronae...
The XMM-Newton Survey Science Center, led by a team from th University of Leicester's Department of Physics and Astronomy, used th University's 'ALICE' supercomputer to help them produce a new X-Ray catalogue, dubbed "3XMM".
This new catalogue contains over half a million X-Ray source detections, representing a 50 percent increase over previous catalogues, and is the largest catalogues of X-Ray sources ever produced.
This vast inventory is also home to some of the rarest and most extreme phenomena in the universe, such as tidal disruption events when a black hole swallows another star, producing prodigious outbursts of X-Ray emission.
The catalogue contains more than a half million sources, all of which are provided to a better quality than ever before, "Professor MIKE WATSON of the university of LEICESTER, who leads th XMM-Newton survey science center ,said,
"Using the university's 2.2 million pound high performance computer meant we could process th data up to a hundred times faster than before. This was key for testing and implementing advanced new processing strategies.
The catalogue provides enormous scope for new discoveries as well as in depth studies of large samples. XMM-Newton is pre-eminent amongst current X-Ray missions in its ability to perform 'survey' science, with a chance to find previously undetected objects and then explore their properties, he said..
The catalogue provides an exceptional dataset for generating large, well-defined samples of objects such as active galactic nuclei, clusters of galaxies, interacting compact binaries, and active stellar coronae...
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