- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/110/1229
- Title:
- ROSAT X-ray survey in NGC 6475
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/110/1229
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A ROSAT X-ray survey, with complementary optical photometry, of the open cluster NGC 6475 has enabled the detection of ~50 late-F to K0 and ~70 K/M dwarf new candidate members, providing the first reliable detection of low-mass stars in this low galactic latitude, 220Myr old cluster. The X-ray observations reported here have a typical limiting sensitivity of L_X_ ~ 10^29^erg/s. The detection frequency of early type cluster members is consistent with the hypothesis that the X-ray emitting early type stars are binary systems with an unseen, low-mass secondary producing the X-rays. The ratio between X-ray and bolometric luminosity among NGC 6475 members saturates at a spectral-type/color which is intermediate between that in much younger and in much older clusters, consistent with rotational spindown of solar-type stars upon their arrival on the ZAMS. The upper envelope of X-ray luminosity as a function of spectral type is comparable to that of the Pleiades, with the observed spread in X-ray luminosity among low-mass members being likely due to the presence of binaries and relatively rapid rotators. However, the list of X-ray selected candidate members is likely biased against low-mass, slowly rotating single stars. While some preliminary spectroscopic information is given in an appendix, further spectroscopic observations of the new candidate members will aid in interpreting the coronal activity among solar-type NGC 6475 members and their relation to similar stars in older and younger open clusters.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/114/465
- Title:
- ROSAT XUV Pointed Phase Source Catalogue
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/114/465
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a catalogue of XUV sources from observations by the Wide Field Camera (WFC) on ROSAT during the pointed phase. The ROSAT WFC is a telescope sensitive in the extreme UV range (17-210eV) which observes in parallel with the ROSAT X-Ray Telescope (XRT). The 5916 pointed observations processed are from the calibration and verification phase in June 1990 and from the period 9 Feb. 1991 to 15 July 1994. The catalogue contains 1022 independent source detections which correspond to 328 individual sources, many of which have been observed repeatedly. Each observation was done with one of four filters S1, S2, P1 and P2. Of the 328 sources 113 are new sources (they are not listed in the "2RE" catalogue) and 274 have been identified with optical counterparts. The catalogue contains coordinates, observed count rates, normalized source count rates and the proposed optical counterpart with its spectral class.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/418/927
- Title:
- RXTE All-Sky Slew Survey catalog, |b|>10{deg}
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/418/927
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report results of a serendipitous hard X-ray (3-20keV), nearly all-sky (|b|>10{deg}) survey based on RXTE/PCA observations performed during satellite reorientations in 1996-2002. The survey is 80% (90%) complete to a 4{sigma} limiting flux of ~1.8 (2.5)x10^-11^erg/s/cm^2^ in the 3-20keV band. The achieved sensitivity in the 3-8keV and 8-20keV subbands is similar to and an order of magnitude higher than that of the previously record HEAO-1 A1 and HEAO-1 A4 all-sky surveys, respectively. A combined 7x10^3^~sq.deg area of the sky is sampled to flux levels below 10^-11^erg/s/cm^2^ (3-20keV). In total 294 sources are detected and localized to better than ~1{deg}. 236 (80%) of these can be confidently associated with a known astrophysical object; another 22 likely result from the superposition of 2 or 3 closely located known sources. 35 detected sources remain unidentified, although for 12 of these we report a likely soft X-ray counterpart from the ROSAT all-sky survey bright source catalog. Of the reliably identified sources, 63 have local origin (Milky Way, LMC or SMC), 64 are clusters of galaxies and 100 are active galactic nuclei (AGN). The fact that the unidentified X-ray sources have hard spectra suggests that the majority of them are AGN, including highly obscured ones (N_H_>10^23^cm^-2^). For the first time we present a logN-logS diagram for extragalactic sources above 4x10^-12^erg/s/cm^2^ at 8-20keV.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/132/1475
- Title:
- SDSS AGN from ROSAT PSPC
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/132/1475
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a sample of 1744 type 1 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 4 (SDSS DR4) spectroscopic catalog with X-ray counterparts in the White-Giommi-Angelini Catalog (WGACAT) of ROSAT PSPC pointed observations. Of 1744 X-ray sources, 1410 (80.9%) are new AGN identifications. Of 4574 SDSS DR4 AGNs for which we found radio matches in the catalog of radio sources from the Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty cm survey, 224 turned up in our sample of SDSS X-ray AGNs. The sample objects are given in a catalog that contains optical and X-ray parameters and supporting data, including redshifts; it also contains radio emission parameters where available. We illustrate the content of our catalog and its potential for AGN science by providing statistical relationships for the catalog data.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/128/1002
- Title:
- SDSS candidate type II quasars. II
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/128/1002
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Type II quasars are luminous active galactic nuclei (AGNs) whose central engines and broad-line regions are obscured by intervening material; such objects only recently have been discovered in appreciable numbers. We study the multiwavelength properties of 291 type II AGN candidates (0.3<z<0.8) selected on the basis of their optical emission-line properties from the spectroscopic database of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (Cat. <J/AJ/126/2579>). This sample includes about 150 objects luminous enough to be classified as type II quasars. We matched the sample to the FIRST (20cm, Cat.<VIII/71>), IRAS (12-100{mu}m, Cat. <II/125>), 2MASS (JHK_s_, Cat. <II/246>), and RASS (0.1-2.4keV, Cat. <IX/29>) surveys. Roughly 10% of optically selected type II AGN candidates are radio-loud, comparable to the AGN population as a whole. About 40 objects are detected by IRAS at 60 and/or 100{mu}m, and the inferred mid/far-IR luminosities lie in the range L=10^45^-3x10^46^ergs/s. Average IR-to-[OIII]{lambda}5007 ratios of objects in our sample are consistent with those of other AGNs. Objects from our sample are 10 times less likely to have soft X-ray counterparts in RASS than type I AGNs with the same redshifts and [OIII]{lambda}5007 luminosities. The few type II AGN candidates from our sample that are detected by RASS have harder X-ray spectra than those of type I AGNs. The multiwavelength properties of the type II AGN candidates from our sample are consistent with their interpretation as powerful obscured AGNs.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/819/154
- Title:
- SDSS-DR7 QSOs with X-ray and UV luminosities
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/819/154
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The observed relation between the soft X-ray and the optical-ultraviolet emission in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is nonlinear and it is usually parametrized as a dependence between the logarithm of the monochromatic luminosity at 2500{AA} and at 2keV. Previous investigations have found that the dispersion of this relation is rather high (~0.35-0.4 in log units), which may be caused by measurement uncertainties, variability, and intrinsic dispersion due to differences in the AGN physical properties (e.g., different accretion modes). We show that, once optically selected quasars with homogeneous SED and X-ray detection are selected, and dust reddened and/or gas obscured objects are not included, the measured dispersion drops to significantly lower values (i.e., ~0.21-0.24dex). We show that the residual dispersion is due to some extent to variability, and to remaining measurement uncertainties. Therefore, the real physical intrinsic dispersion should be <0.21dex. Such a tight relation, valid over four decades in luminosity, must be the manifestation of an intrinsic (and universal) physical relation between the disk, emitting the primary radiation, and the hot electron corona emitting X-rays.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/135/10
- Title:
- SDSS-DR4/RASS source matching
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/135/10
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The current view of galaxy formation holds that all massive galaxies harbor a massive black hole at their center, but that these black holes are not always in an actively accreting phase. X-ray emission is often used to identify accreting sources, but for galaxies that are not harboring quasars (low-luminosity active galaxies), the X-ray flux may be weak, or obscured by dust. To aid in the understanding of weakly accreting black holes in the local universe, a large sample of galaxies with X-ray detections is needed. We cross-match the ROSAT All Sky Survey (RASS) with galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 4 (SDSS DR4) to create such a sample. Because of the high SDSS source density and large RASS positional errors, the cross-matched catalog is highly contaminated by random associations. We investigate the overlap of these surveys and provide a statistical test of the validity of RASS-SDSS galaxy cross-matches.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/244/22
- Title:
- SDSS DR8 redMaPPer clusters Chandra follow-up
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/244/22
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In order to place constraints on cosmology through optical surveys of galaxy clusters, one must first understand the properties of those clusters. To this end, we introduce the Mass Analysis Tool for Chandra (MATCha), a pipeline that uses a parallellized algorithm to analyze archival Chandra data. MATCha simultaneously calculates X-ray temperatures and luminosities and performs centering measurements for hundreds of potential galaxy clusters using archival X-ray exposures. We run MATCha on the redMaPPer SDSS DR8 cluster catalog and use MATCha's output X-ray temperatures and luminosities to analyze the galaxy cluster temperature-richness, luminosity-richness, luminosity-temperature, and temperature-luminosity scaling relations. We detect 447 clusters and determine 246 r_2500_ temperatures across all redshifts. Within 0.1<z<0.35, we find that r_2500_ T_X_ scales with optical richness ({lambda}) as ln(k_B_T_X_/1.0keV)=(0.52+/-0.05)ln({lambda}/70)+(1.85+/-0.03) with an intrinsic scatter of 0.27+/-0.02 (1{sigma}). We investigate the distribution of offsets between the X-ray center and redMaPPer center within 0.1<z<0.35, finding that 68.3%+/-6.5% of clusters are well-centered. However, we find a broad tail of large offsets in this distribution, and we explore some of the causes of redMaPPer miscentering.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/636/A97
- Title:
- SDSS-IV/SPIDERS X-ray PS Spectroscopic Catalog
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/636/A97
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We look to provide a detailed description of the SPectroscopic IDentification of ERosita Sources (SPIDERS) survey, an SDSS-IV programme aimed at obtaining spectroscopic classification and redshift measurements for complete samples of sufficiently bright X-ray sources. We describe the SPIDERS X-ray Point Source Spectroscopic Catalogue, considering its store of 11092 observed spectra drawn from a parent sample of 14759 ROSAT and XMM sources over an area of 5129deg^2^ covered in SDSS-IV by the eBOSS survey. This programme represents the largest systematic spectroscopic observation of an X-ray selected sample. A total of 10970 (98.9%) of the observed objects are classified and 10849 (97.8%) have secure redshifts. The majority of the spectra (10070 objects) are active galactic nuclei (AGN), 522 are cluster galaxies, and 294 are stars. The observed AGN redshift distribution is in good agreement with simulations based on empirical models for AGN activation and duty cycle. Forming composite spectra of type 1 AGN as a function of the mass and accretion rate of their black holes reveals systematic differences in the H-beta emission line profiles. This study paves the way for systematic spectroscopic observations of sources that are potentially to be discovered in the upcoming eROSITA survey over a large section of the sky.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/201/10
- Title:
- SDSS quasar catalog with Swift observations
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/201/10
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have compiled a catalog of optically selected quasars with simultaneous observations in UV/optical and X-ray bands by the Swift Gamma-ray Burst Explorer. Objects in this catalog are identified by matching the Swift pointings with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 5 quasar catalog. The final catalog contains 843 objects, among which 637 have both Ultraviolet Optical Telescope (UVOT) and X-Ray Telescope (XRT) observations and 354 of which are detected by both instruments. The overall X-ray detection rate is ~60% which rises to ~85% among sources with at least 10ks of XRT exposure time. We construct the time-averaged spectral energy distribution (SED) for each of the 354 quasars using UVOT photometric measurements and XRT spectra. From model fits to these SEDs, we find that the big blue bump contributes about ~0.3 dex to the quasar luminosity. We re-visit the {alpha}_ox_-L_2500_{AA} relation by selecting a clean sample with only Type 1 radio-quiet quasars; the dispersion of this relation is reduced by at least 15% compared with studies that use non-simultaneous UV/optical and X-ray data.
