The XMM-LSS survey. Survey design and first results

M. Pierre , I. Valtchanov , B. Altieri , S. Andreon , M. Bolzonella , M. Bremer , L. Disseau , S. Dos Santos , P. Ghandi , C. Jean , F. Pacaud , A. M. Read , A. Refregier , J. Willis , C. Adami (1) , D. Alloin , M. Birkinshaw , L. Chiappetti , Albert Cohen , A. Detal , P. -A. Duc (2) , E. Gosset , J. Hjorth , L. R. Jones , O. Le Fevre , C. Lonsdale , D. Maccagni , A. Mazure , B. Mcbreen , H. Mccracken , Y. Mellier , T. J. Ponman , H. Quintana , H. Rottgering , A. Smette , J. Surdej , Jean-Luc Starck , L. Vigroux , S. D. M. White

1 LAM - Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille
2 DAPNIA - Département d'Astrophysique, de physique des Particules, de physique Nucléaire et de l'Instrumentation Associée

We have designed a medium deep large area X-ray survey with XMM - the XMM Large Scale Structure survey, XMM-LSS - with the scope of extending the cosmological tests attempted using ROSAT cluster samples to two redshift bins between 0

Domaines: Cosmologie et astrophysique extra-galactique [astro-ph.CO]; Astrophysique [astro-ph]

M. Pierre, I. Valtchanov, B. Altieri, S. Andreon, M. Bolzonella, et al.. The XMM-LSS survey. Survey design and first results. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2004, 0409, pp.011. ⟨hal-00008631⟩