- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/318/333
- Title:
- Extended ROSAT Bright Cluster Sample
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/318/333
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a low-flux extension of the X-ray-selected ROSAT Brightest Cluster Sample (BCS) published in Paper I of this series. Like the original BCS and employing an identical selection procedure, the BCS extension is compiled from ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS) data in the northern hemisphere ({delta}>=0{deg}) and at high Galactic latitudes (|b|>=20{deg}). It comprises 99 X-ray-selected clusters of galaxies with measured redshifts z<=0.3 (as well as eight more at z>0.3) and total fluxes between 2.8x10^-12^ and 4.4x10^-12^erg/cm^2^/s in the 0.1-2.4keV band (the latter value being the flux limit of the original BCS). The extension can be combined with the main sample published in 1998 to form the homogeneously selected extended BCS (eBCS), the largest and statistically best understood cluster sample to emerge from the RASS to date. The nominal completeness of the combined sample (defined with respect to a power-law fit to the bright end of the BCS logN-logS distribution) is relatively low at 75per cent (compared with 90per cent for the high-flux sample of Paper I). However, just as for the original BCS, this incompleteness can be accurately quantified, and thus statistically corrected for, as a function of X-ray luminosity and redshift. In addition to its importance for improved statistical studies of the properties of clusters in the local Universe, the low-flux extension of the BCS is also intended to serve as a finding list for X-ray-bright clusters in the northern hemisphere which we hope will prove useful in the preparation of cluster observations with the next generation of X-ray telescopes such as Chandra and XMM-Newton.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/131/197
- Title:
- F, G and K stars BVRI photometry
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/131/197
- Date:
- 15 Dec 2021 08:12:40
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present accurate BV(RI)c photometry for a sample of F, G and K stars detected in selected areas of the ROSAT all-sky survey (RASS). We have used the photometry, in addition to low-resolution spectroscopy, to estimate spectral classifications, distances and X-ray luminosities. The log(L_X_/L_V_) in the sample lies below -2. Although the sample contains also nearby, inactive stars, it is dominated by active objects. The median X-ray luminosity in our sample is <L_X_>=29.88 and the mean value of the hardness ratios <HR1>=0.13+/-0.35. We compare the derived X-ray luminosity function with similar functions obtained from the serendipitous samples of the Einstein Observatory medium sensitivity survey (EMSS, Cat. <IX/15>) and EXOSAT (Cat. <J/A+AS/115/41>). Our sample is completely consistent with the EMSS sample of solar type stars, indicating that both our sources and the EMSS sources are representative of the high galactic latitude X-ray stellar population. We do not find extremely active stars (log(L_X_)>=32), as are found in the EMSS sample, and we argue that these objects are rare.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/309/116
- Title:
- 10 globular cluster ROSAT observations
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/309/116
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present X-ray observations of ten globular clusters observed with the ROSAT PSPC. The clusters were chosen to have large core radii and to be nearby. Three clusters contain X-ray sources which are probably associated with the cluster. One is the previously discovered X-ray transient H1825-331 in NGC 6652. The other two, in NGC 6366 and NGC 6809, are new members of the class of low-luminosity sources, with luminosities in the region of 10^32^erg/s. Upper limits can be placed on the source temperatures of both sources, making them similar to sources found in other globular clusters by ROSAT.
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/hrassoptid
- Title:
- Hamburg/RASS Catalog: Optical Identifications
- Short Name:
- HRASS/Opt
- Date:
- 18 Apr 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This table is a representation of part of the Hamburg/ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS) Catalog (HRC) of optical identifications of X-ray sources at high-galactic latitude, namely the list of proposed and possible optical identifications. (The list of the X-ray sources themselves is given in the linked Browse table HRASSCAT). The HRC includes all X-ray sources from the ROSAT Bright Source Catalog (RASS-BSC) with galactic latitude |b| >= 30 degrees and declination Dec >= 0 degrees. In this part of the sky covering ~10,000 square degrees, the RASS-BSC contains 5341 X-ray sources. For the optical identification, the HRC authors used blue Schmidt prism and direct plates taken for the northern hemisphere Hamburg Quasar Survey (HQS) which are now available in digitized form. The limiting magnitudes are 18.5 and 20, respectively. For 82% of the selected RASS-BSC, an identification could be given. For the rest, either no counterpart was visible in the error circle, or a plausible identification was not possible. With ~42%, AGN represent the largest group of X-ray emitters, ~31% have a stellar counterpart, whereas galaxies and cluster of galaxies comprise only ~4% and ~5%, respectively. In ~3% of the RASS-BSC sources, no object was visible on the blue direct plates within 40" around the X-ray source position. The catalog has been used as a source for the selection of (nearly) complete samples of the various classes of X-ray emitters. This table was produced by the HEASARC in February 2005 based on the CDS Catalog table J/A+A/406/353/optical.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/hrasscat
- Title:
- Hamburg/RASS Catalog: X-Ray Sources
- Short Name:
- RASS/HRC
- Date:
- 18 Apr 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This table is a representation of part of the Hamburg/ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS) Catalog (HRC) of optical identifications of X-ray sources at high-galactic latitude, namely the list of X-ray sources. (The list of proposed and possible optical counterparts is given in the linked Browse table HRASSOPTID). The HRC includes all X-ray sources from the ROSAT Bright Source Catalog (RASS-BSC) with galactic latitude |b| >= 30 degrees and declination Dec >= 0 degrees. In this part of the sky covering ~10,000 square degrees, the RASS-BSC contains 5341 X-ray sources. For the optical identification, the HRC authors used blue Schmidt prism and direct plates taken for the northern hemisphere Hamburg Quasar Survey (HQS) which are now available in digitized form. The limiting magnitudes are 18.5 and 20, respectively. For 82% of the selected RASS-BSC, an identification could be given. For the rest, either no counterpart was visible in the error circle, or a plausible identification was not possible. With ~42%, AGN represent the largest group of X-ray emitters, ~31% have a stellar counterpart, whereas galaxies and cluster of galaxies comprise only ~4% and ~5%, respectively. In ~3% of the RASS-BSC sources, no object was visible on the blue direct plates within 40" around the X-ray source position. The catalog has been used as a source for the selection of (nearly) complete samples of the various classes of X-ray emitters. This table was produced by the HEASARC in February 2005 based on the CDS Catalog table J/A+A/406/353/x-ray.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/126/509
- Title:
- HS 47.5/22: X-ray catalogue
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/126/509
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Table 4 contains the parameters of the PSPC pointings which form the medium deep survey in HS 47.5/22, table 5 is the final X-ray source catalogue, and table 6 gives the results of the optical follow-up observations.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/448/683
- Title:
- Hyades RASS observations
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/448/683
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report the results of a complete X-ray survey of the Hyades cluster region using the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS). Our survey covers over 900deg^2^ of the sky. Over 185 optically identified Hyades were detected down to a limiting X-ray luminosity of ~1-2x10^28^ergs/s (0.1-1.8keV); among solar-like stars, i.e., main-sequence stars of spectral type G, the RASS detection rate is ~90%. The presence of many binary systems in the cluster is a key factor influencing the X-ray luminosity function. Short-period (~ a few days or less) binaries are anomalously X-ray bright, as might be expected; however, the X-ray luminosity functions of K and possibly M binaries of all types are significantly different from their single counterparts, confirming the results of Pye et al. (1994MNRAS.266..798P) for a smaller K star sample drawn from deep ROSAT pointings. Comparison with Einstein Observatory studies of a subset of Hyades stars demonstrates a general lack of significant (> a factor of 2) long-term X-ray variability. This may be the result of the dominance of a small-scale, turbulent dynamo in the younger Hyades stars compared to the large-scale, cyclic dynamo observed in the Sun.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/344/521
- Title:
- LMC variable X-ray sources
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/344/521
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The ROSAT PSPC (Cat. <IX/11>) performed more than 200 pointed observations of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) between 1990 and 1994. Most of the LMC was covered more than once and a large fraction at least ten times, making the PSPC observations an in valuable archive to study long-term time variability in the LMC. We performed a systematic search for variable X-ray sources in the LMC and found 27 sources which showed flux variations by factors between 3 and more than 1000. A comparison of the temporal and spectral characteristics of 15 X-ray sources which are not yet identified optically with those of the previously known sources in our sample allows to draw first conclusions about their nature. Up to six of the unidentified sources are promising candidates for high mass X-ray binaries in the LMC. Six sources are probably foreground stars, two soft objects might be supersoft sources and one source could be a black hole candidate. Most of the X-ray binary candidates are found in the area of the LMC 4 supergiant shell leading to a significant concentration of such systems in that region, consistent with the idea of being born in the stellar formation event which created the shell.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/139/277
- Title:
- LMC X-ray sources ROSAT PSPC catalogue
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/139/277
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We analyzed more than 200 ROSAT PSPC observations in a 10 by 10 degree field centered on the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and performed between 1990 and 1994 to derive a catalogue of X-ray sources. The list contains 758 sources with their X-ray properties. From cross-correlations of the PSPC catalogue with the SIMBAD data base and literature searches we give likely identifications for 144 X-ray sources based on positional coincidence, but taking into account X-ray properties like hardness ratios and source extent. 46 known sources are associated with supernova remnants (SNRs) and candidates in the LMC, most of them already detected by previous X-ray missions.
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/newmdwarfs
- Title:
- New M Dwarfs in the Solar Neighborhood
- Short Name:
- NEWMDWARFS
- Date:
- 18 Apr 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This table contains the results from a spectroscopic study of 1080 nearby active M dwarfs, selected by correlating the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) and ROSAT catalogs at galactic latitudes greater than 15 degrees above or below the Galactic Plane and using a matching radius of 20 arcseconds, as well as color cuts (J-H < 0.75, H-K > 0.15 and 0.8 < J-K < 1.1) designed to select M dwarfs. The authors have derived the spectral types and estimated distances for all of their stars. The spectral types range between K5 and M6. Nearly half of the stars lie within 50 pc. The authors have measured the equivalent width of the H-alpha emission line. Their targets show an increase in chromospheric activity from early to mid-spectral types, with a peak in activity around M5. Using the count rate and hardness ratios obtained from the ROSAT catalog,the authors have derived the stellar X-ray luminosities. Their stars display a "saturation-type" relation between the chromospheric and coronal activity. The relation is such that log L<sub>X</sub>/L<sub>bol</sub> remains "saturated" at a value of approximately -3 for varying H-alpha equivalent width. The authors have found 568 matches in the USNO-B catalog and have derived the tangential velocities v<sub>tan</sub> for these stars. There is a slight trend of decreasing chromospheric activity with age, such that the stars with higher v<sub>tan</sub> values have lower H-alpha equivalent widths. The coronal emission, however, remains saturated at a value of log L<sub>X</sub>/L<sub>bol</sub> ~ -3 for varying tangential velocities, suggesting that the coronal activity remains saturated with age. The authors do not find any break in the saturation-type relation at the spectral type at which stars become fully convective (~M3.5). Most of the stars in their sample show more coronal emission than the dMe stars in the Hyades and Praesepe clusters and have v<sub>tan</sub> < 40 km s<sup>-1</sup>, suggesting that they belong to a young population. This table was created by the HEASARC in March 2010 based on the (corrected) electronic version of Table 1 from the reference paper which was obtained from the Astronomical Journal web site. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
