sep 2024

The 4XMM-DR14 catalog release has been added to the website. Read more about it here.

apr 2024

Flux estimate from stacked observations is now provided when available.

jun 2023

The 4XMM-DR13 catalog release has been added to the website. Read more about it here. The website is still in beta version.

apr 2023

New version of FLIX available! Changes include:

performance improvements (processing time divided by 2)
possibility to request the server using a file
several improvements to the interface to improve user experience
bug fixes

jul 2022

The 4XMM-DR12 catalog release has been added to the website. Read more about it here. The website is still in early beta version !

WEBSITE OVERVIEW

This website provides experimental access to the FLIX sensitivity estimator for XMM-Newton data. It is provided by the XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre at IRAP and is based on 4XMM Data Release 14 data provided by the XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre Consortium.

What FLIX does: if you provide a position of interest on the sky, FLIX scans the public data products from XMM-Newton to determine whether each point was observed. If so FLIX:

Estimates a detection threshold to the X-ray flux at that point in various energy bands,
Provides a crude estimate of the actual flux within a circle centred on that point
Scans the 4XMM catalogue listing any detections within 2 arc-minutes, and display an X-ray image centred on the point.

Results are then returned in the form of a table and as a downloadable FITS file. For further information on input and outputs, see the online documentation

FLIX

Sensitivity Estimator

NEWS

WEBSITE OVERVIEW