XXL : The ultimate XMM extragalactic survey Consortium meeting, May 2-6 2011, Bonifacio - France

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In December 2010, the XXL survey, an XMM Very Large Programme, has been granted time to map two extragalactic regions of 25 deg², at a depth of ~ 5 10^-15 erg/s/cm² (i.e. using 10 ks XMM observations).
The main goal of the project is to constrain the Dark Energy equation of state using clusters of galaxies (cf http://arxiv.org/pdf/1009.3182). This survey will also have lasting legacy value for cluster scaling laws and studies of AGNs and XRB.

The goal of the Bonifacio kick-off meeting is to organise the XXL working environment. While the core of the consortium originates from the XMM-LSS collaboration, this new programme is open to any scientist belonging to the international astronomical community, and interested in actively contributing to the general legacy effort.
Privileged access to the entire XXL data set will be granted to the consortium members.

Workshop Topics include:

• X-ray observations and processing


• follow-up observations


• multi-wavelength catalogues


• science (clusters, AGN, galaxies, XRB, theory, etc.)


• work organisation and legacy issues