Wide Angle ROSAT Pointed Survey, Second Phase (WARPS-II) Clusters Catalog
Short Name:
WARPS2
Date:
10 May 2024
Publisher:
NASA/GSFC HEASARC
Description:
This table contains the galaxy cluster catalog from the second, larger phase of the Wide Angle ROSAT Pointed Survey (WARPS), an X-ray selected survey for high-redshift galaxy clusters. WARPS is among the largest deep X-ray cluster surveys and is being used to study the properties and evolution of galaxy clusters. The WARPS-II sample contains 125 clusters serendipitously detected in a survey of 301 ROSAT PSPC pointed observations and covers a sky area of 56.7 deg<sup>2</sup>. Of these 125 clusters, 53 have not been previously reported in the literature. The authors have nearly complete spectroscopic follow-up of the clusters, which range in redshift from z = 0.029 to z = 0.92 with a median redshift of z = 0.29 and they find 59 clusters with z >= 0.3 (29 not previously reported in the literature) and 11 clusters with z >= 0.6 (6 not previously reported). They also define a statistically complete subsample of 102 clusters above a uniform flux limit of 6.5 x 10<sup>-14</sup> ergs/cm<sup>2</sup>/s (0.5 - 2.0 keV). In their paper, the authors also compare their redshifts, fluxes, and detection methods to other similar published cluster surveys and state that they find no serious issues with their measurements or completeness. The list of ROSAT pointings used in WARPS-II is given in Table 1 of the first reference paper. The WARPS-I cluster catalog (the second reference listed below) is also available in Browse as the WARPS table. This table was created by the HEASARC in September 2010 based on the combination of the electronic versions of Tables 2, 3, and 4 from the first reference paper which were obtained from the CDS (their catalog J/ApJS/176/374). This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
We present the emission line properties of a sample of 76 bright soft X-ray selected ROSAT Active Galactic Nuclei. All optical counterparts are Seyfert 1 galaxies with rather narrow permitted lines, strong optical FeII line blends, and weak forbidden lines. By selection, they also have steep soft X-ray spectra when compared with typical Seyfert 1 galaxies. We discuss possible origins of these peculiar trends employing detailed correlation analyses, including a Principal Component Analysis. The optical spectra are presented in the Appendix.
Archived PSPC observations of 26 Seyfert galaxies have been analyzed for bright X-ray sources out to the full extent of the field (< about 50'). Of all Seyferts known this represents a sample 88% complete to B_T_=10mag, 74% complete to 11mag and 50% complete to 12mag. Using the same reduction algorithm, 14 fields centered on stars at high galactic latitudes have been used as control fields. Excluding the two brightest Seyferts, a subset of 24 Seyferts with corrected apparent magnitude between 8.04<B^o,i^_T_<12.90mag show a minimum excess of 46 bright X-ray sources generally distributed between 10 and 25' from the target galaxy. The significances of association of these sources with the Seyferts in the median brightness range are as high as 7.4-sigma.
Figure 9: Finding charts for the objects where spectra were taken, based on the APM data base. The cross is centered at the X-ray position. 30 arcsec radius error circles are shown and arrows mark the objects with the available spectra. North is up and East to the left in all charts. Figure 10: Deep CCD images of the X-ray source fields with faint optical counterparts. Circles with 30 arcsec radius are centered on the X-ray position. Capital letters identify the brightest object next to them (see Table 3 for remarks on identification). The filter used and the exposure time are shown above each image in brackets.
Table2 contains the catalogue of X-ray sources in M 33 detected in ROSAT observations. X-ray properties and results from cross-correlations with other catalogues are listed. The total number of sources is 184.