Description
We present X-ray data from the ROSAT all-sky survey for those sources catalogued in the Einstein Extended Medium Sensitivity Survey (EMSS) (Cat. <VII/152>) which have been identified with Galactic stars. This "second epoch" of X-ray data taken 10yr later, is used to study coronal flux variability for the most active examples of late-type stars. About 72% of the EMSS stars have been redetected by ROSAT. While the F-stars appear to have remained constant, we find evidence for a general decrease in X-ray flux for the M and solar-type stars. This is probably due to the fact that an X-ray-selected sample will preferentially detect stars while flaring. In contradiction to this, the RS CVn binaries have been redetected at higher X-ray flux levels for the sample as a whole.
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