This catalogue contains sources from PSPC-ROSAT (Position-sensitive Proportional Counter aboard the Roentgen Satellite), as provided by Max-Planck Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik (MPE) in December 1994. The WGACAT version of the ROSAT PSPC Catalogue (IX/12) is a similar catalogue with slightly different reduction procedures For a description of the ROSAT Mission, see Truemper (1983)
We present the results of the ROSAT PSC observations of the Praesepe cluster. 68 Praesepe candidates have been detected, above a threshold of ~2x10^+28^erg/s (2x10^21^W), in the ~4degx4deg area of the cluster covered by the observations. 56 out of the 68 detected objects are cataloged as high probability Praesepe members.
We describe the selection of an X-ray flux-limited sample of bright clusters of galaxies in the southern hemisphere, based on the first analysis of the ROSAT All-Sky Survey data (RASS1). The sample is constructed starting from an identification of candidate clusters in RASS1, after which their X-ray fluxes are remeasured using the steepness-ratio technique. This method is better suited than the RASS1 standard algorithm to measuring flux from extended sources. The final sample is count-rate-limited in the ROSAT hard band (0.5-2.0 keV), so that as a result of the distribution of N_H_, its effective flux limit varies between {~}3 and 4x10^-12^ ergs cm^-2^ s^-1^ over the selected area. This covers the {delta} < 2.5{deg} part of the south Galactic cap region (b < -20{deg}), excluding patches of low RASS1 exposure time and of the Magellanic Clouds area, for a total of 8235 deg^2^. One hundred and thirty candidate sources fulfill our selection criteria for bona fide clusters of galaxies in this area. Of these, 101 are Abell/ACO clusters, while 29 do not have a counterpart in these catalogs. Of these clusters, 126 (97%) have a redshift, and for these we compute an X-ray luminosity. 20% of the cluster redshifts come from new observations, as part of the ESO Key Program survey of RASS clusters that is currently under completion. Considering the intrinsic biases and incompletenesses introduced by the flux selection and source identification processes, we estimate the overall completeness to be better than 90%. The observed number count distribution, log Nlog S, is well fitted by a power law with slope {alpha} =1.34{+/-}0.15 and normalization A=11.87{+/-}1.04 sr^-1^ (10^-11^ ergs cm^-2^ s^-1^)^{alpha}^, in good agreement with other measurements.
We present results from three deep ROSAT high-resolution imager observations of the Orion Nebula star-forming region. The X-ray images contain over 1500 catalogued stars in a roughly 0.8deg^2^ region centered on the Trapezium. In all, 389 distinct X-ray sources have been detected, at least two-thirds of which are associated with a single proper-motion cluster member. X-ray emission is detected from stars of all spectral types, from the massive O- and B-type components of the Trapezium to the coolest, low-mass pre-main-sequence (PMS) stars. In this paper, we focus primarily on X-ray emission from the late-type PMS stars. Of the ~100 late-type cluster members with measured spectral types, approximately three-fourths have been detected; we have derived X-ray luminosity upper limits for the remaining stars. We found coronal X-ray emission turns on around spectral type F6, with the upper envelope of activity increasing with decreasing effective temperature.
We have obtained deep ROSAT images of three regions within the Pleiades open cluster. We have detected 317 X-ray sources in these ROSAT PSPC images, 171 of which we associate with certain or probable members of the Pleiades cluster. We detect nearly all Pleiades members with spectral types later than G0 and within 25 arcminutes of our three field centers where our sensitivity is highest. This has allowed us to derive for the first time the luminosity function for the G, K, and M dwarfs of an open cluster without the need to use statistical techniques to account for the presence of upper limits in the data sample. Because of our high X-ray detection frequency down to the faint limit of the optical catalog, we suspect that some of our unidentified X-ray sources are previously unknown, very low-mass members of the Pleiades.
The ROSAT Ultra Deep Survey in the Lockman Hole consists of a sample of 94 X-ray sources reaching a limiting flux of 1.2x10-15erg/s/cm^2^ in the 0.5-2.0keV energy band. About 90% of the X-ray sources have been spectroscopically identified using low-resolution Keck spectra.
For a set of 11900 F stars that have uvby photometry and are in the Hipparcos (Cat. <I/239>) catalog, we have found 1980 X-ray counterparts (~17%) in the ROSAT All-Sky Surveys (RASS, Cat. <IX/10> and <IX/29>). In this paper we analyze X-ray properties of these ROSAT F stars and compare that sample with the entire set of our F stars.
We present results from the analysis of deep ROSAT HRI and PSPC observations of the spiral galaxy M81. The inferred total (0.5-2keV band) luminosity of M81 is ~3x10^40^ergs/s, excluding the contribution from identified interlopers found within the D_25_ ellipse. The nucleus of the galaxy alone accounts for about 65% of this luminosity. The rest is due to 26 other X-ray sources (contributing ~10%) and to apparently diffuse emission, which is seen across much of the galactic disk and is particularly bright in the bulge region around the nucleus. Spectral analysis further gives evidence for a soft component, which can be characterized by a two-temperature optically thin plasma with temperature at ~0.15 and 0.60keV and an absorption of the galactic foreground only. These components, accounting for ~13% of the X-ray emission from the region, apparently arise in a combination of hot gas and faint discrete sources. We find interesting spatial coincidences of luminous (10^37^-10^40^ergs/s) and variable X-ray sources with shock-heated optical nebulae. Three of them are previously classified as supernova remnant candidates. The other one is far off the main body of M81 but is apparently associated with a dense H I concentration produced most likely by the tidal interactions of the galaxy with its companions. These associations suggest that such optical nebulae may be powered by outflows from luminous X-ray binaries, which are comparable to, or more luminous than, Galactic "microquasars."
About 200 X-ray sources from a sample of spectrally hard ROSAT PSPC sources, given in the catalog of Haberl & Pietsch (1999, Cat. <J/A+AS/139/277>), and observed in a ~60 square degree field of the LMC during several archival pointed observations with a wide range of exposure times have been reanalyzed. For these sources accurate count rates and hardness ratios have been recalculated. In comparison to Haberl & Pietsch (1999, Cat. <J/A+AS/139/277>) we used merged data from all available observations and we derived average source parameters by investigating each source individually. From a simulation power-law spectral tracks have been derived in the HR1-HR2 plane and ~170 sources have been classified as background X-ray sources or as LMC X-ray binaries. 80% of the spectrally hard X-ray sources with more than 50 observed counts have been found to be consistent with background X-ray sources and 20% with LMC X-ray binaries (53 sources with AGN and 15 with X-ray binaries).
