- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/IX/15
- Title:
- Einstein EMSS Survey
- Short Name:
- IX/15
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Einstein Extended Medium Sensitivity Survey (EMSS) consists of 835 serendipitous X-ray sources detected at or above 4 times the rms level in 1435 IPC fields with their centers located away from the galactic plane. Their limiting sensitivities range from ~5*10-14 to to ~ 3*10-12 erg.cm-2.s-1 in the 0.3-3.5keV band. A total area of 778 square degrees of the high galactic latitude sky (|b|>20) has been covered. The analysis has been performed using data from the Rev 1 processing system at the CfA. The resulting EMSS catalog is a flux-limited and homogeneous sample of astronomical objects that can be used for statistical studies. Here we present the table listing all the sources taken from the publication referenced below and the optical identifications. At present over 96% of the 835 X-ray sources have been successfully identified in the following proportions: active galactic nuclei (QSO's, quasars and Seyfert), 51.1%; BL Lacertae objects, 4.3%; clusters of galaxies, 12.2%; normal galaxies, 2.1%; cooling flow galaxies, 0.6%; Galactic stars 25.8%; and unidentified, 3.9%. Most of the individual optical counterparts are previously unknown objects and so constitute large statistical samples independent of previously selection methods. The contents of the table is described below. The sky coverage computed for a specific assumed source spectrum is also given under "Additional Information" below. For further details please see the published articles: Gioia et al. 1990, Stocke et al. 1991.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/IX/18
- Title:
- EINSTEIN extended source survey (EXSS)
- Short Name:
- IX/18
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This catalog contains sources from data collected by the IPC on board the EINSTEIN Observatory. This survey is designed to find extended sources and diffuse emission rather than point sources. In addition, the source detection algorithm is substantially improved over that used by EMSS. Sources were searched using circular apertures up to 6.1arcmin. The catalog contains 1326 extended source candidates at high galactic latitude (|b| > 20{deg}).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/511/65
- Title:
- Einstein images of galaxy clusters
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/511/65
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the X-ray characteristics of a sample of 368 clusters of galaxies with redshifts less than 0.2 observed with the Einstein Imaging Proportional Counter. For each cluster, we measure the 0.5-4.5keV counting rate and compute the 0.5-4.5keV source luminosity, as well as the bolometric luminosity within fixed metric radii. We detect 85% of Abell clusters with z<0.1, demonstrating that the large majority of these optically selected clusters are not the results of chance superpositions. For 163 clusters, we measure their X-ray surface brightness profiles and determine their core radii. For {~}230 clusters, we then use either our measured core radii and values, or mean values derived for this sample, to measure central gas densities and gas masses. We use estimated or measured cluster gas temperatures, along with the derived gas-density profiles, to estimate total cluster masses, under the assumptions that the gas is isothermal and in hydrostatic equilibrium.
