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1. All-Sky Catalog of Faint EUV Sources
ID:
ivo://nasa.heasarc/euvexrtcat
Title:
All-Sky Catalog of Faint EUV Sources
Short Name:
EUV/Faint
Date:
10 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 .
2. Brera Multi-scale Wavelet ROSAT HRI Source Catalog
ID:
ivo://nasa.heasarc/bmwhricat
Title:
Brera Multi-scale Wavelet ROSAT HRI Source Catalog
Short Name:
BMW-HRI
Date:
10 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 .
3. Byurakan/Hamburg/ROSAT Catalog of Optical IDs
ID:
ivo://nasa.heasarc/bhrfscid
Title:
Byurakan/Hamburg/ROSAT Catalog of Optical IDs
Short Name:
BHROSATOpt.
Date:
10 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 .
4. Early-Type Galaxies X-Ray Luminosities Catalog
ID:
ivo://nasa.heasarc/etgalxray
Title:
Early-Type Galaxies X-Ray Luminosities Catalog
Short Name:
ETGALXRAY
Date:
10 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 .
5. Hamburg/RASS Catalog: X-Ray Sources
ID:
ivo://nasa.heasarc/hrasscat
Title:
Hamburg/RASS Catalog: X-Ray Sources
Short Name:
RASS/HRC
Date:
10 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 .
6. RASS/All-Sky Automated Survey Eclipsing Binaries Catalog
ID:
ivo://nasa.heasarc/rassasaseb
Title:
RASS/All-Sky Automated Survey Eclipsing Binaries Catalog
Short Name:
RASSASASEB
Date:
10 May 2024
Publisher:
NASA/GSFC HEASARC
Description:
The authors have combined their catalog of eclipsing binaries from the All-Sky Automated Survey (ASAS) with the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS) Bright and Faint Source Catalogs (RASSBSC and RASSFSC). The combination using a matching radius of 50 arcseconds results in 836 eclipsing binaries that display coronal activity and is the largest sample of active binary stars assembled to the date of publication. By using the (V-I) colors of the ASAS eclipsing binary catalog, the authors are able to determine the distances and thus bolometric luminosities for the majority of eclipsing binaries that display significant stellar activity. A typical value for the ratio of soft X-ray to bolometric luminosity is L<sub>X</sub>/L<sub>bol</sub> ~ a few x 10<sup>-4</sup>, similar to the ratio of soft X-ray to bolometric flux F<sub>X</sub>/F<sub>bol</sub> in the most active regions of the Sun. Unlike rapidly rotating isolated late-type dwarfs - stars with significant outer convection zones - a tight correlation between Rossby number and activity of eclipsing binaries is absent. The authors find evidence for the saturation effect and marginal evidence for the so-called "super-saturation" phenomena. Their work shows that wide-field stellar variability searches can produce a high yield of binary stars with strong coronal activity. The authors expect that only 1.4% (i.e., 12 out of 836) of the matches between the ASAS eclipsing binary and RASS sources will be false given their maximum angular separation criterion of 50 arcseconds. This Browse table excludes 29 contact binaries for which the separate distance estimates made by the authors using the source V-band and I-band magnitudes differed by more than 20%, and hence contains 807 (836 - 29) eclipsing and X-ray emitting binary systems. Complete information on ASAS and its freely accessible data are available at the ASAS web site: <a href="http://www.astrouw.edu.pl/asas/">http://www.astrouw.edu.pl/asas/</a>. This table was created by the HEASARC in July 2010 based on CDS catalog J/AcA/58/405 file catalog.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
7. RASS X-Ray Variable Sources Catalog
ID:
ivo://nasa.heasarc/rassvars
Title:
RASS X-Ray Variable Sources Catalog
Short Name:
ROSAT/Vars
Date:
10 May 2024
Publisher:
NASA/GSFC HEASARC
Description:
The RASS X-Ray Variable Sources Catalog contains the results of a systematic search for variability among the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS) X-ray sources. Lightcurves were generated for about 30,000 X-ray point sources which were detected sufficiently high above the background. For the variability study different search algorithms were developed in order to recognize flares, periods and trends, respectively. The variable X-ray sources were optically identified with counterparts in the SIMBAD, the USNO-A2.0 and NED data bases, but a significant part of the X-ray sources remain without cataloged optical counterparts. A complete list of the 1207 X-ray variable sources that were found is presented in this table. This table was created by the HEASARC in July 2003 based on CDS table J/A+A/403/247/table7.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
8. ROSAT All-Sky Survey/ASIAGO-ESO QSO Survey Catalog
ID:
ivo://nasa.heasarc/rassaeqso
Title:
ROSAT All-Sky Survey/ASIAGO-ESO QSO Survey Catalog
Short Name:
RASSAEQSO
Date:
10 May 2024
Publisher:
NASA/GSFC HEASARC
Description:
This table contains some of the first results of a survey for bright quasars (V < 14.5 and R < 15.4) covering the northern hemisphere at Galactic latitudes |b| > 30 degrees. The photometric database is derived from the Guide Star and USNO catalogs. Quasars are identified on the basis of their X-ray emission measured in the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS). The surface density of quasars brighter than 15.5 magnitudes turns out to be (10 +/- 2) x 10<sup>-3</sup> degrees<sup>-2</sup>, about 3 times higher than that estimated by the Palomar-Green (PG) survey. In the paper, the quasar optical luminosity function (LF) at 0.04 < z <= 0.3 is computed and shown to be consistent with a luminosity-dependent luminosity evolution of the type derived by La Franca & Cristiani (1997AJ....113.1517L) in the range 0.3 < z <=2.2. The predictions of semianalytical models of hierarchical structure formation agree remarkably well with the present observations. 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 reference paper which were obtained from the CDS (their catalog J/AJ/119/2540). This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
9. ROSAT All-Sky Survey: Bright Sources
ID:
ivo://nasa.heasarc/rassbsc
Title:
ROSAT All-Sky Survey: Bright Sources
Short Name:
RASS/BSC
Date:
10 May 2024
Publisher:
NASA/GSFC HEASARC
Description:
The ROSAT All-Sky Survey Bright Source Catalog (RASS-BSC, revision 1RXS) was released online at <a href="http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/rosat/survey/rass-bsc/">http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/rosat/survey/rass-bsc/</a> (cf. IAU Circular No. 6420, June 19, 1996). It has been superseded by the <a href="/W3Browse/rosat/rass2rxs.html">Second ROSAT All-Sky Survey Point Source Catalog (2RXS)</a>. This catalog was derived from the all-sky survey performed during the first half year of the ROSAT mission in 1990-1991; 18,811 sources are catalogued, with a limiting ROSAT PSPC countrate of 0.05 cts/s in the energy band 0.1- 2.4 keV. The sources have a detection likelihood of at least 15 and contain at least 15 source photons. At a brightness limit of 0.1 cts/s (8547 sources), the catalog represents a sky coverage of 92 percent. The ROSAT name, the position in equatorial coordinates, the positional error, the source countrate and error, the background countrate, exposure time, hardness-ratios HR1 and HR2 and errors, extent and likelihood of extent, and likelihood of detection are provided for each source. For 94 percent of the sources, visual inspection confirmed the results of the standard processing with respect to existence and position; the remaining 6 percent were reanalyzed and appropriately flagged. Broadband images are available for a subset of the flagged sources. This table was originally ingested by the HEASARC in June 1996, based upon the data files from <a href="http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/rosat/survey/rass-bsc/">http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/rosat/survey/rass-bsc/</a>. An updated version can be found in the <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/IX/10A">CDS Catalog IX/10A</a>. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
10. ROSAT All-Sky Survey Candidate Isolated Neutron Stars
ID:
ivo://nasa.heasarc/rasscndins
Title:
ROSAT All-Sky Survey Candidate Isolated Neutron Stars
Short Name:
RASSCNDINS
Date:
10 May 2024
Publisher:
NASA/GSFC HEASARC
Description:
Using new and archival observations made with the Swift satellite and other facilities, the authors examine 147 X-ray sources selected from the ROSAT All-Sky-Survey Bright Source Catalog (RASS/BSC) to produce a new limit on the number of isolated neutron stars (INSs) in the RASS/BSC, the most constraining such limit to date. Independent of X-ray spectrum and variability, the number of INSs is <= 48 (90% confidence). Restricting attention to soft (kT<sub>eff</sub> < 200 eV), non-variable X-ray sources - as in a previous study - yields an all-sky limit of <= 31 INSs. In the course of their analysis, the authors identify 5 new high-quality INS candidates for targeted follow-up observations. A future all-sky X-ray survey with eROSITA, or another mission with similar capabilities, can be expected to increase the detected population of X-ray-discovered INSs from the 8 - 50 in the BSC, to (for a disk population) 240 - 1500, which will enable a more detailed study of neutron star population models. Following selection of the INS candidates, short (~ 1 ks) follow-up observations with Swift/XRT were obtained for 92 of the candidates; these observations decreased the X-ray positional uncertainty (the systematic positional error associated with Swift blind pointing observations is on the order of 3.5"). The authors obtained (where possible) contemporaneous UV observations with Swift/UVOT for counterpart identification with off-band objects. This table was created by the HEASARC in May 2012 based on CDS Catalog J/ApJ/714/1424 files table1.dat and table2.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

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