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1. All-Sky Automatic Survey (ASAS) Photometry of ROSAT All-Sky Survey Sources
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Title:
All-Sky Automatic Survey (ASAS) Photometry of ROSAT All-Sky Survey Sources
Short Name:
RASSASASPV
Date:
03 May 2024
Publisher:
NASA/GSFC HEASARC
Description:
Photometric data from the All-Sky Automatic Survey (ASAS) - South (Declination less than 29 degrees) Survey have been used for the identification of bright stars located near the sources from the ROSAT All Sky Survey Bright Source Catalog (RASSBSC). In total, 6,028 stars brighter than 12.5 magnitude in the I- or the V-bands have been selected and analyzed for periodicity. Altogether, 2,302 variable stars have been found with periods ranging from 0.137 days to 193 days. Most of these stars have X-ray emission of coronal origin, but there are a few cataclysmic binaries and early type stars with colliding winds. Whenever it was possible, the authors collected data available in the literature so as to verify the periods and to classify variable objects. The catalog includes 1,936 stars (1,233 new) considered to be variable due to presence of spots (rotationally variable), 127 detached eclipsing binary stars (33 new), 124 contact binaries (11 new), 96 eclipsing stars with deformed components (19 new), 13 ellipsoidal variables (4 new), 5 miscellaneous variables and one pulsating RR Lyr type star (blended with an eclipsing binary). More than 70% of the new variable stars have amplitudes smaller than 0.1 magnitudes, but for the star ASAS 063656-0521.0 the authors have found the largest known amplitude of brightness variations due to the presence of spots (up to Delta V = 0.8 magnitudes). This table was created by the HEASARC in May 2018, based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/AcA/62/67">CDS Catalog J/AcA/62/67</a> files catalog.dat and remarks.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
2. All-Sky Catalog of Faint EUV Sources
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ivo://nasa.heasarc/euvexrtcat
Title:
All-Sky Catalog of Faint EUV Sources
Short Name:
EUV/Faint
Date:
03 May 2024
Publisher:
NASA/GSFC HEASARC
Description:
The All-Sky Catalog of Faint Extreme-Ultraviolet (EUV) Sources is a list of 534 objects detected jointly in the Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE) (100 Angstrom (AA) band) All-Sky Survey and in the ROSAT X-ray Telescope (XRT) (0.25 keV band) All-Sky Survey. The joint selection criterion within a 1.5 arcminute positional tolerance permitted the use of a low count rate threshold in each survey. This low threshold was roughly 60% of the threshold used in the previous EUVE all-sky surveys, and 166 of the objects listed in this table were new EUV sources, appearing neither in the Second EUVE Source Catalog nor in the ROSAT Wide Field Camera Second Catalog. Preliminary identifications are offered for 105 of the 166 sources not previously reported in any EUV catalog: by far the most numerous (81) of the identifications are late-type (F-M) stars, while 18 are other stellar types, only 5 are white dwarfs, and none are extragalactic. The paucity of WDs and extragalactic objects may be explained by a strong horizon effect wherein interstellar absorption strongly limits the effective new-source search volume, and, thereby, selectively favors low-luminosity nearby sources over more luminous but distant objects. Notice that, with the adopted 1.5 arcminute acceptance criterion, about 50 spurious detections are expected. This Browse table was created in July 2003 based on CDS table IX/35/faint.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
3. All-Sky Optical Catalog of Radio/X-Ray Sources
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ivo://nasa.heasarc/qorgcat
Title:
All-Sky Optical Catalog of Radio/X-Ray Sources
Short Name:
QuasarOrg
Date:
03 May 2024
Publisher:
NASA/GSFC HEASARC
Description:
The Quasars.org (QORG) Catalog is an all-sky optical catalog of radio/X-ray sources. The QORG Catalog aligns and overlays the year 2001/2 releases of the ROSAT HRI, RASS, PSPC and WGA X-ray catalogs, the NVSS (2002), FIRST (2003) and SUMSS (2003) radio catalogs, the Veron QSO catalog (2003) and various galaxy/star reference catalogs onto the optical APM and USNO-A catalogs. This catalog displays calculated percentage probabilities for each optical, radio/X-ray associated object of its likelihood of being a quasar, galaxy, star, or erroneous radio/X-ray association. This table contains the main Master QORG catalog (master.dat) and contains all 501,756 radio/X-ray associated optical objects and known quasars which are optically detected in APM/USNO-A. Up to six radio/X-ray catalog identifications are presented for each optical object, plus any double radio lobes (21,498 of these). These are superimposed (and laterally fitted) onto a 670,925,779-object optical background which combines APM and USNO-A data. Other subsets of this master catalog are available at the CDS, including the Free-Lunch catalog, a concise easy-to-read variant of the Master catalog showcasing just one X-ray and/or radio identification for each object, a subset catalog of QSO candidates, and a subset catalog of known QSOs/galaxies/stars. Objects presented in this catalog are those optical APM/USNO-A objects which are associated with X-ray/radio detections, or any optically-found catalogued QSO/AGN/Bl Lac objects, which have confidence levels >40% of being radio/X-ray emitting optical objects. There are 501,756 objects included in all (including 48,285 catalogued quasars), representing the 99.4% coverage of the sky which is available from the APM and USNO-A. Each object is shown as one entry giving the position in equatorial coordinates, red and blue optical magnitudes (recalibrated) and PSF class, calculated probabilities of the object being, separately, a quasar, galaxy, star, or erroneous radio/X-ray association, any radio identification from each of the NVSS, FIRST and SUMSS surveys, including candidate double-lobe detections, any X-ray identification from each of the ROSAT HRI, RASS, PSPC and WGA surveys, including fluxes and field shifts of those identifications, plus, if already catalogued, the object name and redshift where applicable. The QORG catalog and supporting data can be accessed from the catalog home page at <a href="http://quasars.org/qorg-data.htm">http://quasars.org/qorg-data.htm</a> Questions or comments on the catalog contents may be directed to the first author Eric Flesch at eric@flesch.org. The authors request that researchers using this catalog make a small acknowledgement of such use in any published papers which thereby result. This table was created by the HEASARC in November 2004 based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/427/387">CDS Catalog J/A+A/427/387</a> file master.dat.gz. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
4. Brera Multi-scale Wavelet ROSAT HRI Source Catalog
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ivo://nasa.heasarc/bmwhricat
Title:
Brera Multi-scale Wavelet ROSAT HRI Source Catalog
Short Name:
BMW-HRI
Date:
03 May 2024
Publisher:
NASA/GSFC HEASARC
Description:
The Brera Multi-scale Wavelet ROSAT High Resolution Imager Source Catalog (BMW-HRI) is derived from all ROSAT HRI pointed observations with exposure time longer than 100 seconds available in the ROSAT public archives. The data were analyzed automatically using a wavelet detection algorithm suited to the detection and characterization of both point-like and extended sources. This algorithm is able to detect and disentangle sources in very crowded fields and/or in presence of extended or bright sources. Images have been also visually inspected after the analysis to ensure verification. The final catalog, derived from 4,303 observations, consists of 29,089 sources detected with a detection probability of greater or equal 4.2 sigma. For each source, the primary catalog entries provide name, position, count rate, flux and extension along with the relative errors. In addition, results of cross-correlations with existing catalogs at different wavelengths (FIRST, IRAS, 2MASS, and GSC2) are also reported. As an external check, the authors compared their catalog with the previously available ROSHRICAT catalog (both in its short and long versions) and were able to recover, for the short version, ~90% of the entries. The sky coverage of the entire HRI data set was computed by means of simulations. The complete BMW-HRI catalog provides a sky coverage of 732 square degrees down to a limiting flux of ~1x10<sup>-12</sup> erg/s/cm<sup>2</sup> and of 10 square degrees down to ~1x10<sup>-14</sup> erg/s/cm<sup>2</sup>. The authors were able to compute the cosmological log(N)-log(S) distribution down to a flux of about 1.2x10<sup>-14</sup> erg/s/cm<sup>2</sup>. This catalog was ingested by the HEASARC in March 2003, based upon the <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/IX/34">CDS Catalog IX/34</a> file catalog.dat.gz. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
5. Byurakan/Hamburg/ROSAT Catalog of Optical IDs
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ivo://nasa.heasarc/bhrfscid
Title:
Byurakan/Hamburg/ROSAT Catalog of Optical IDs
Short Name:
BHROSATOpt.
Date:
03 May 2024
Publisher:
NASA/GSFC HEASARC
Description:
This table contains the Byurakan/Hamburg/ROSAT Catalog (BHRC) of the optical identifications of X-ray sources. The BHRC includes all 2791 X-ray sources from the ROSAT Faint Source Catalog (ROSAT-FSC, CDS Catalog <IX/29>) with galactic latitude |b| >= 30 degrees, declination >= 0 degrees, and ROSAT PSPC count rate CR > 0.04 ct/s. The optical identifications were carried out using the Hamburg Quasar Survey (HQS) digitized spectroscopic plates, the DSS1 and DSS2 (blue, red, and IR) images, the MAPS photometric data, the USNO-B1.0 (for proper motion), the NVSS and FIRST radio, and the IRAS and 2MASS infrared catalogs. From the DSS images, positional, brightness, color, extension, variability, and proper-motion information, the optical-to-X-ray positional offsets were obtained and a morphological classification was made. Available SIMBAD and NED data were also utilized. Cross-correlations were made with AGN, white dwarf, and cataclysmic variable catalogs (322, 8 and 7 associations, respectively). The authors managed to identify 97% of the sources (2696/2791 sources) that are associated with 3202 optical objects. 2248 X-ray sources have a single optical counterpart, 144 have a double or multiple optical counterpart (binaries, galaxy groups, etc.), and 304 have ambiguous identifications (some of the latter might actually be blends of two X-ray sources that were not resolved by ROSAT). The QSOs and AGN represent the largest group of X-ray counterparts (56.2%); bright stars (including late-type stars, but excluding WDs and CVs) are counterparts for 33.2% of the sources, and bright galaxies and groups of galaxies comprise 9.2%. A number of close galaxy pairs (possibly interacting/merging galaxies) are found as counterparts for X-ray sources (3.0%), as well as 1.0% WDs and 0.4% CVs. The BHRC may be used for the selection and study of samples of the various classes of X-ray emitters: the table gives all the available multiwavelength data for the identified sources. This table was created by the HEASARC in June 2006 based on CDS table J/A+A/449/425/table1.dat This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
6. Early-Type Galaxies X-Ray Luminosities Catalog
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ivo://nasa.heasarc/etgalxray
Title:
Early-Type Galaxies X-Ray Luminosities Catalog
Short Name:
ETGALXRAY
Date:
03 May 2024
Publisher:
NASA/GSFC HEASARC
Description:
This table contains a catalog of X-ray luminosities for 401 early-type galaxies (and 24 other galaxies which were listed in previuous studies as early but which have LEDA T-types >= -1.5), of which 136 are based on newly analysed ROSAT PSPC pointed observations. The remaining luminosities are taken from the literature and converted to a common energy band, spectral model and distance scale. In their paper, the authors use this sample to fit the L<sub>X</sub>/L<sub>B</sub> relation for early-type galaxies and find a best-fit slope for the catalog of ~ 2.2. The authors demonstrate the influence of group-dominant galaxies on the fit and present evidence that the relation is not well modeled by a single power-law fit. They also derive estimates of the contribution to galaxy X-ray luminosities from discrete-sources and conclude that they provide L<sub>(discrete-source-contribution)</sub>/L<sub>B</sub> ~ 29.5 erg s<sup>-1</sup>/L<sub>Bsun</sub>. The authors compare this result with luminosities from their catalog. Lastly, they examine the influence of environment on galaxy X-ray luminosity and on the form of the L<sub>X</sub>/L<sub>B</sub> relation. They conclude that although environment undoubtedly affects the X-ray properties of individual galaxies, particularly those in the centres of groups and clusters, it does not change the nature of whole populations. The sample of early-type galaxies was selected from the Lyon-Meudon Extragalactic Data Archive (LEDA). This catalog at that time contained information on ~ 100,000 galaxies, of which ~ 40,000 had redshift and morphological data. Galaxies were selected using the following criteria: (i) Morphological Type T < -1.5 (i.e. E, E-S0 and S0 galaxies). (ii) Virgo-corrected recession velocity V <= 9,000 km s<sup>-1</sup>. (iii) Apparent Magnitude B<sub>T</sub> <= 13.5. The redshift and apparent magnitude restrictions were chosen in order to minimize the effects of incompleteness on their sample. The LEDA catalogue is known to be 90 per cent complete at B<sub>T</sub> = 14.5, so the selection should be close to statistical completeness. The selection process produced ~ 700 objects. The authors then cross-correlated this list with a list of public ROSAT PSPC pointings. Only pointings within 30 arcminutes of the target were accepted, as, further off-axis, the PSPC point-spread function becomes large enough to make analysis problematic. This left 209 galaxies with X-ray data available. The authors also added data from previously published catalogs, ROSAT PSPC All-Sky Survey values from Beuing et al. (1999, MNRAS, 302, 209), and Einstein IPC values from Fabbiano et al. (1992, ApJS, 80, 531) and Roberts et al. (1991, ApJS, 75, 751). These other references use a range of models to fit the data, different wavebands, distances and blue luminosities. O'Sullivan et al. corrected for these differences by converting the catalogs to a common set of values, as used for their own results. All of the X-ray luminosities have been converted to a common format based on a reliable distance scale (assuming H<sub>0</sub> = 75 km s<sup>-1</sup> Mpc<sup>-1</sup>), and correcting for differences in spectral fitting techniques and waveband. This table was created by the HEASARC in October 2010 based on CDS catalog J/MNRAS/328/461 file table3.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
7. Hamburg/RASS Catalog: Optical Identifications
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ivo://nasa.heasarc/hrassoptid
Title:
Hamburg/RASS Catalog: Optical Identifications
Short Name:
HRASS/Opt
Date:
03 May 2024
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 .
8. Hamburg/RASS Catalog: X-Ray Sources
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ivo://nasa.heasarc/hrasscat
Title:
Hamburg/RASS Catalog: X-Ray Sources
Short Name:
RASS/HRC
Date:
03 May 2024
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 .
9. MCXC Meta-Catalog of X-Ray Detected Clusters of Galaxies
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ivo://nasa.heasarc/mcxc
Title:
MCXC Meta-Catalog of X-Ray Detected Clusters of Galaxies
Short Name:
MCXC
Date:
03 May 2024
Publisher:
NASA/GSFC HEASARC
Description:
The MCXC is the Meta-Catalog of the compiled properties of X-ray detected Clusters of galaxies. This very large catalog is based on publicly available ROSAT All Sky Survey (RASS)-based (NORAS, REFLEX, BCS, SGP, NEP, MACS, and CIZA) and ROSAT serendipitous (160SD, 400SD, SHARC, WARPS, and EMSS) cluster catalogs. Data have been systematically homogenised to an overdensity of 500, and duplicate entries from overlaps between the survey areas of the individual input catalogs have been carefully handled. The MCXC comprises 1743 clusters with virtually no duplicate entries. For each cluster, the MCXC provides three identifiers, a redshift, coordinates, membership in the original catalog, and standardised 0.1 - 2.4 keV band luminosity Lx<sub>500</sub>, total mass M<sub>500</sub>, and radius R<sub>500</sub>, where the 500 suffix means that the quantity has been calculated up to a standard characteristic radius R<sub>500</sub>, the radius within which the mean overdensity of the cluster is 500 times the critical density at the cluster redshift . The meta-catalog additionally furnishes information on overlaps between the input catalogs and the luminosity ratios when measurements from different surveys are available, and gives notes on individual objects. The MCXC is made available so as to provide maximum usefulness for X-ray, Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) and other multiwavelength studies. The catalogs and sub-catalogs included in this meta-catalog are listed in Table 1 of the reference paper, and come from the following references: <pre> Catalog Sub- Reference Title Catalog or CDS Cat. (Author) RASS IX/10 ROSAT All-Sky Bright Source Catalog (1RXS) (Voges+, 1999) BCS BCS J/MNRAS/301/881 ROSAT brightest cluster sample - I. (Ebeling+, 1998) eBCS J/MNRAS/318/333 Extended ROSAT Bright Cluster Sample (Ebeling+ 2000) CIZA X-ray clusters behind the Milky Way CIZAI ApJ, 580, 774 (Ebeling+, 2002) CIZAII J/APJ/662/224 (Kocevski+, 2007) EMSS ApJS, 72, 567 Einstein Extended Medium Sensitivity Survey (Gioia+, 1990) EMSS_1994 ApJS, 94, 583 (Gioia & Luppino, 1994) EMSS_2004 ApJ, 608, 603 (Henry 2004) MACS ApJ, 553, 668 Massive Cluster Survey (Ebeling+, 2001) MACS_MJFV ApJS, 174, 117 (Maughan+, 2008) MACS_BRIGHT MNRAS, 407, 83 (Ebeling+, 2010) MACS_DIST ApJ, 661, L33 (Ebeling+, 2007) NEP NEP J/ApJS/162/304 ROSAT NEP X-ray source catalog (Henry+, 2006) NORAS/ REFLEX NORAS J/ApJS/129/435 NORAS galaxy cluster survey. I. (Boehringer+, 2000) REFLEX J/A+A/425/367 REFLEX Galaxy Cluster Survey Cat (Boehringer+, 2004) SGP SGP J/ApJS/140/239 Clusters of galaxies around SGP (Cruddace+, 2002) SHARC SHARC_BRIGHT J/ApJS/126/209 Bright SHARC survey cluster catalog (Romer+, 2000) SHARC_SOUTH J/MNRAS/341/1093 The Southern SHARC catalog (Burke+, 2003) WARPS WARPSI J/ApJS/140/265 WARPS survey. VI. (Perlman+, 2002) WARPSII J/ApJS/176/374 WARPS-II Cluster catalog. VII. (Horner+, 2008) 160SD 160SD J/ApJ/594/154 160 square degree ROSAT Survey (Mullis+, 2003) 400SD J/ApJS/172/561 400 square degree ROSAT Cluster Survey (Burenin+, 2007) 400SD_SER Serendipitous clusters 400SD_NONSER Not entirely serendipitous clusters </pre> This table was originally ingested by the HEASARC in October 2011 based on the <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/534/A109">CDS catalog J/A+A/534/A109</a> file mcxc.dat. It was last updated in September 2023 to match the 12-Nov-2011 CDS version of the catalog. This update corrected the missing minus signs in the declinations of 6 clusters and homogenized the Abell object names. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
10. New M Dwarfs in the Solar Neighborhood
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ivo://nasa.heasarc/newmdwarfs
Title:
New M Dwarfs in the Solar Neighborhood
Short Name:
NEWMDWARFS
Date:
03 May 2024
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 .