SDSS-IV/SPIDERS ROSAT-Based X-Ray Point Source Spectroscopic Catalog
Short Name:
SPIDERSROS
Date:
10 May 2024
Publisher:
NASA/GSFC HEASARC
Description:
This catalog aims to provide a detailed description of the SPectroscopic IDentification of ERosita Sources (SPIDERS) survey, an SDSS-IV program aimed at obtaining spectroscopic classification and redshift measurements for complete samples of sufficiently bright X-ray sources. The authors describe the SPIDERS X-Ray Point Source Spectroscopic Catalog, considering its store of 11,092 observed spectra drawn from a parent sample of 14,759 ROSAT and XMM sources over an area of 5,129 deg<sup>2</sup> covered in SDSS-IV by the eBOSS survey. This catalog presents the SPIDERS ROSAT subsample of 21,288 sources which were drawn from the Second ROSAT All-Sky Survey (2RXS), provided by the HEASARC in <a href="/W3Browse/rosat/rass2rxs.html">RASS2RXS</a>. The accompanying <a href="/W3Browse/xmm-newton/spidersxmm.html">SPIDERSXMM</a> table contains the 3,196 sources drawn from the XMM Slew Survey Source Catalog, version 2 (XMMSL2), provided by the HEASARC in <a href="/W3Browse/xmm-newton/xmmslewful.html">XMMSLEWFUL</a>. This program represents the largest systematic spectroscopic observation of an X-ray selected sample. A total of 10,970 (98.9%) of the observed objects are classified and 10,849 (97.8%) have secure redshifts. The majority of the spectra (10,070 objects) are active galactic nuclei (AGN), 522 are cluster galaxies, and 294 are stars. The SDSS-IV/BOSS spectrographic observations are taken between 2014 and 2019. This table was created by the HEASARC in May 2020 based upon the <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/636/A97">CDS Catalog J/A+A/636/A97</a> file vc2rxs.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
Second ROSAT All-Sky Survey Point Source Catalog (2RXS)
Short Name:
RASS2RXS
Date:
10 May 2024
Publisher:
NASA/GSFC HEASARC
Description:
This database table contains the Second ROSAT All-Sky Survey Point Source Catalog (2RXS). This is the second publicly released ROSAT catalog of point-like sources obtained from the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS) observations performed with the Position-Sensitive Proportional Counter (PSPC) between June 1990 and August 1991. It is an extended, revised, and combined version of the RASS <a href="/W3Browse/rosat/rassbsc.html">Bright</a> and <a href="/W3Browse/rosat/rassfsc.html">Faint Source Catalog</a>s. Utilizing the latest RASS processing, this catalog includes more than 135,000 X-ray detections in the 0.1-2.4 keV energy band down to a likelihood threshold of 6.5. Additional information can be found at <a href="http://www.mpe.mpg.de/ROSAT/2RXS/">http://www.mpe.mpg.de/ROSAT/2RXS/</a>. This table was created by the HEASARC in March, 2017, based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/588/A103">CDS Catalog J/A+A/588/A103</a> file cat2rxs.dat.gz. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
Wide Angle ROSAT Pointed Survey, Second Phase (WARPS-II) Clusters Catalog
Short Name:
WARPS2
Date:
10 May 2024
Publisher:
NASA/GSFC HEASARC
Description:
This table contains the galaxy cluster catalog from the second, larger phase of the Wide Angle ROSAT Pointed Survey (WARPS), an X-ray selected survey for high-redshift galaxy clusters. WARPS is among the largest deep X-ray cluster surveys and is being used to study the properties and evolution of galaxy clusters. The WARPS-II sample contains 125 clusters serendipitously detected in a survey of 301 ROSAT PSPC pointed observations and covers a sky area of 56.7 deg<sup>2</sup>. Of these 125 clusters, 53 have not been previously reported in the literature. The authors have nearly complete spectroscopic follow-up of the clusters, which range in redshift from z = 0.029 to z = 0.92 with a median redshift of z = 0.29 and they find 59 clusters with z >= 0.3 (29 not previously reported in the literature) and 11 clusters with z >= 0.6 (6 not previously reported). They also define a statistically complete subsample of 102 clusters above a uniform flux limit of 6.5 x 10<sup>-14</sup> ergs/cm<sup>2</sup>/s (0.5 - 2.0 keV). In their paper, the authors also compare their redshifts, fluxes, and detection methods to other similar published cluster surveys and state that they find no serious issues with their measurements or completeness. The list of ROSAT pointings used in WARPS-II is given in Table 1 of the first reference paper. The WARPS-I cluster catalog (the second reference listed below) is also available in Browse as the WARPS table. This table was created by the HEASARC in September 2010 based on the combination of the electronic versions of Tables 2, 3, and 4 from the first reference paper which were obtained from the CDS (their catalog J/ApJS/176/374). This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .