EXOD (XMM-Newton X-ray Outburst Detector)

Introduction

EXOD is an algorithm designed for the detection of rapid X-ray transients in photon counting data.

The EXOD catalogue was compiled from 15,105 XMM-Newton observations spanning from 2001-08-19 to 2023-11-16.

The data on this website contains the results from the output of EXOD over 3 different time binnings: 5s, 50s, 200s and 3 different energy bands 0.2-2.0 keV (soft) 2.0 - 12.0 keV (hard) and 0.2 - 12.0 keV (full).

If you use the EXOD catalogue in your research and publish results, please acknowledge the catalogue and cite the relevant paper:

This research has made use of data from the EXOD source catalogue (Khan et al. 2024)

External Links

• EXOD on GitHub
• EXOD Documentation
• 4XMM-DR14
• XCAT-DB at the SSC institute, Observatoire Astronomique, Strasbourg
• XSA at ESA's XMM-Newton SOC
• The IRAP catalogue server
• Browse at HEASARC NASA GSFC

FITS Catalogues

Product Name	File Name	Size (MB)	Description
exod_cat	EXOD_DR1_cat.fits	13.1	EXOD DR1 catalog of detections
exod_cat_unique	EXOD_DR1_cat_unique.fits	13.7	Unique sources from EXOD DR1 catalog

Questions and Queries

For further questions, please contact Norman Khan or Erwan Quintin.

Acknowledgements

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement number 101004168, the XMM2ATHENA project. This research has made use of data obtained from the 4XMM XMM-Newton serendipitous source catalogue compiled by the 10 institutes of the XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre selected by ESA. This research has also made use of the SIMBAD database, operated at CDS, Strasbourg, France.

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Last Updated: 17-October-2024