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Paper: Producing the 2XMM Catalogue
Volume: 351, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XV
Page: 85
Authors: Page, C.G.
Abstract: The XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre (SSC) is currently reprocessing all XMM-Newton data from launch (nearly 6 years ago) using the latest software and calibration information. Our aim is not only to produce improved data products for the XMM Science Archive but also to make a new catalogue of serendipitous sources. The 2XMM catalogue is expected to be the largest list of X-ray sources to date. The production platform has switched from Sparc/Solaris to x86/Linux, and catalogue data handling will involve both FITS and DBMS tables. Instead of using O2 (an obsolescent object-oriented DBMS) we are making extensive use of Postgres.
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