Abstract
We describe in detail the nature of XMM-Newton EPIC background and its various complex components, summarising the new findings of the XMM-Newton EPIC background working group, and provide XMM-Newton background blank sky event files for use in the data analysis of diffuse and extended sources. Blank sky event file data sets are produced from the stacking of data, taken from 189 observations resulting from the Second XMM-Newton Serendipitous Source Catalogue (2XMMp) reprocessing. The data underwent several filtering steps, using a revised and improved method over previous work, which we describe in detail. We investigate several properties of the final blank sky data sets. The user is directed to the location of the final data sets. There is a final data set for each EPIC instrument-filter-mode combination.
Highlights
The XMM-Newton observatory (Jansen et al 2001), with the two EPIC MOS (Turner et al 2001) and one EPIC PN (Strüder et al 2001) cameras at the foci of the three telescopes, provides unrivalled capabilities for detecting low surface brightness emission features from extended and diffuse galactic and extragalactic sources, by virtue of the large field of view of the X-ray telescopes and the high throughput yielded by the heavily nested telescope mirrors
There is a final data set for each EPIC instrument-filter-mode combination
We have described in detail the components that make up the XMM-Newton EPIC background and why a good understanding of this background is important
Summary
Blank sky event file data sets are produced from the stacking of data, taken from 189 observations resulting from the Second. The data underwent several filtering steps, using a revised and improved method over previous work, which we describe in detail
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