The 2XMMi-DR3 catalogue is the fifth publicly released XMM X-ray source catalogue produced by the XMM Survey Science Centre (SSC) consortium on behalf of ESA. It follows the 1XMM (Cat. IX/37, released in April 2003), 2XMMp (July 2006), 2XMM (Cat. IX/39, August 2007) and 2XMMi (Cat. IX/40, August 2008) catalogues: 2XMMp was a preliminary version of 2XMM. 2XMMi and 2XMMi-DR3 are incremental versions of the 2XMM catalogue. In summary, the versions are: -------------------------------------------- Name DR# Designation Year Cat. -------------------------------------------- 2XMMp 0 2XMMp-DR0 2006 2XMM 1 2XMM-DR1 2007 IX/39 2XMMi 2 2XMMi-DR2 2008 IX/40 2XMMi-DR3 3 2XMMi-DR3 2010 IX/41 -------------------------------------------- The production and content of the 2XMM catalogue is described in detail in "The XMM-Newton serendipitous survey. V. The second XMM-Newton serendipitous source catalogue", M.G. Watson et al., 2009A&A...493..339W; there are no significant differences in the processing between the 2XMM, 2XMMi and 2XMMi-DR3 observations The "slim" version of the catalogue (file "xmm2r3s.dat") contains one row per unique source, while the the main catalogue has one row per detection. This slim version includes 38 columns, essentially those containing information about the unique sources, while the full catalogue (file "xmm2r3.fit") describes the 353191 detections with 299 columns. The slim version also contains a column with links to the LEDAS summary pages. In the case of sources with multiple detections the summary page of the best detection is selected (i.e., the detection with the largest exposure time, summed over all cameras), and the summary page gives cross-links to the other detections. Nomenclature Notes: Sources that originated in the 2XMM catalogue or were new in the 2XMMi catalogue will retain their IAU name nomenclature in 2XMMi-DR3, i.e. their IAU names start with a '2XMM' or '2XMMi' designator, respectively. Sources appearing for the first time in 2XMMi-DR3 are assigned an IAU name also starting with a '2XMMi' designator; this IAU name is provided in the catalogue. The correct, full nomenclature for a specific detection from these catalogues is the IAU name, followed by a colon and the detection identification number, that is: "2XMM Jhhmmss.s+ddmmss:detid" or "2XMMi Jhhmmss.s+ddmmss:detid".
Cone search capability for table IX/41/xmm2ir3s (The 2XMMi-DR3 Catalog, "slim" version)
