Description
The ROSAT All-Sky Survey Faint Source Catalog (RASS-FSC) was first released by the Max-Planck-Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik, Garching group (voges et al. 2000) in May 2000. It is derived from the All-Sky Survey performed during the ROSAT mission using the Position-Sensitive Proportional Counter (PSPC) in the energy range 0.1 to 2.4 keV. Over one hundred thousand (105,924 to be exact) sources are catalogued herein, representing the faint extension of the RASS Bright Source Catalog (RASS-BSC, cf. IAU Circular 6420 and Voges et al. 1999, A&A, 349, 389: this is also available at the HEASARC as the RASSBSC database). The sources in this catalog have a detection likelihood of at least seven, and contain at least six source photons. The likelihood L of source detection is defined as L = -ln (1 - P), where P = the probability of source detection. For each source, the ROSAT name, position and positional error, the source count rate and error, the background count rate, the exposure time, the date of observation, two hardness ratios and their associated errors, the source extent and the extent likelihood, and the likelihood of source detection are given, inter alia. This HEASARC database was created in July 2000 based on the May 26 2000 release of the ROSAT All-Sky Survey Faint Source Catalog obtained from the Max-Planck-Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik, Garching Website: <a href="http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/rosat/survey/rass-fsc/">http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/rosat/survey/rass-fsc/</a> This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
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