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XXL Survey Data Release II

XXL Survey, the largest observational program that has been carried out with the ESA’s XMM-Newton satellite, has released it’s second data release. Associated Press Release can be found in ESA’s website.

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With the current release there are 20 associated papers published in a special issue of Astronomy & Astrophysics. Based on the analyses obtained cosmological parameters are in good agreement with the standart model of cosmology which implies an acceleration due to Einstein’s gravitational constant.