Optical identifications in the Marano field XMM-Newton survey
Hasinger, G.; Mignoli, M.; Zamorani, G.; Staubert, R.; Wagner, S.; Giedke, K.; Lamer, G.
Germany, Italy
Abstract
The ``Marano field'', a deep optical quasar survey field, has been observed by the XMM Newton EPIC camera with 16 overlapping pointings totalling at ~ 120 ksec integration time. Source detection in the merged observations resulted in more than 600 X-ray sources. Here we present the status of optical follow up observations which were undertaken to identify and classify the newly found X-ray sources.