- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/sfgalhmxb
- Title:
- Star-Forming Galaxies High-Mass X-Ray Binaries Catalog
- Short Name:
- SFGALHMXB
- Date:
- 18 Apr 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- Based on a homogeneous set of X-ray, infrared and ultraviolet observations from Chandra, Spitzer, GALEX and 2MASS archives, the authors studied populations of high-mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs) in a sample of 29 nearby star-forming galaxies and their relation with the star formation rate (SFR). In agreement with previous results, the authors find that HMXBs are a good tracer of the recent star formation activity in the host galaxy and their collective luminosity and number scale with the SFR, in particular, L<sub>X</sub> ~ 2.6 x 10<sup>39</sup> x SFR. However, the scaling relations still bear a rather large dispersion of rms ~ 0.4 dex, which the authors believe is of a physical origin. This table contains the catalog of 1055 compact X-ray sources detected within the D25 ellipse for galaxies of this sample which the authors used to construct the average X-ray luminosity function (XLF) of HMXBs with substantially improved statistical accuracy and better control of systematic effects than achieved in previous studies. The XLF follows a power law with slope of 1.6 in the log(L<sub>X</sub>) ~ 35 - 40 luminosity range with a moderately significant evidence for a break or cut-off at L<sub>X</sub> ~ 10<sup>40</sup> erg/s. As before, the authors did not find any features at the Eddington limit for a neutron star or a stellar mass black hole. In their paper, the authors discuss the implications of their results for the theory of binary evolution. In particular, they estimate the fraction of compact objects that once during their lifetime experienced an X-ray active phase powered by accretion from a high mass companion and obtain a rather large number, f<sub>X</sub> ~ 0.2 x (0.1 Myr/tau<sub>x</sub>), where tau<sub>x</sub> is the life time of the X-ray active phase. This is about 4 orders of magnitude more frequent than in low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs). The authors also derive constrains on the mass distribution of the secondary star in HMXBs. Note that, in their paper, the authors estimate that ~ 300 of the 1055 sources are likely to be background AGNs (cosmic X-ray background or CXB sources) and that the majority (<~ 700) of the remaining ~ 750 sources are young HMXB systems associated with star formation in their host galaxies. This table was created by the HEASARC in March 2012 based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/MNRAS/419/2095">CDS Catalog J/MNRAS/419/2095</a> file hmxb.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
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- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/rotxraycat
- Title:
- StarswithRotationPeriods&X-RayLuminositiesCatalog
- Short Name:
- ROTXRAYCAT
- Date:
- 18 Apr 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This table contains photometric and derived stellar parameters for a sample of 820 solar and late-type stars (the original table of 824 entries had 4 near-duplicate entries for the stars HD 19668, HD 95188, HD 216803 and HD 285382 which have been removed by the HEASARC) from nearby open clusters and the field, including rotation periods and X-ray luminosities. This sample was used by the authors to study the relationship between rotation and stellar activity and derive a new estimate of the convective turnover time. From an unbiased subset of this sample the power law slope of the unsaturated regime, L<sub>X</sub>/L<sub>bol</sub> ~ R<sub>o</sub><sup>beta</sup>, is fit as beta = -2.70 +/- 0.13. This is inconsistent with the canonical beta = -2 slope to a confidence of 5 sigma, and argues for an additional term in the dynamo number equation. From a simple scaling analysis, this implies Delta(Omega)/Omega ~ Omega<sup>0.7</sup>, i.e. the differential rotation of solar-type stars gradually declines as they spin down. Super-saturation is observed for the fastest rotators in this sample and its parametric dependencies are explored. Significant correlations are found with both the corotation radius and the excess polar updraft, the latter theory providing a stronger dependence and being supported by other observations. The authors estimate mass-dependent empirical thresholds for saturation and super- saturation and map out three regimes of coronal emission. Late F-type stars are shown never to pass through the saturated regime, passing straight from super-saturated to unsaturated X-ray emission. The theoretical threshold for coronal stripping is shown to be significantly different from the empirical saturation threshold (R<sub>o</sub> < 0.13), suggesting it is not responsible. Instead, the authors suggest that a different dynamo configuration is at work in stars with saturated coronal emission. This is supported by a correlation between the empirical saturation threshold and the time when stars transition between convective and interface sequences in rotational spin-down models. This table was created by the HEASARC in March 2012 based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/ApJ/743/48">CDS Catalog J/ApJ/743/48</a> file catalog.dat. The original table had 824 entries, including 4 near-duplicate entries for the stars HD 19668, HD 95188, HD 216803 and HD 285382, which have been removed by the HEASARC. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/saisncat
- Title:
- Sternberg Astronomical Institute Catalog of Supernovae
- Short Name:
- SAISN
- Date:
- 18 Apr 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This table comprises the Sternberg Astronomical Institute (SAI) Catalog of Supernovae. This version contains data on 2991 extragalactic supernovae (SNe) which were discovered from 1885 until December 12, 2004 and on their host galaxies. Data for host galaxies were compiled from the following catalogues: (1) RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, Cat. <VII/155>); (2) UGC (Nilson 1973. Cat. <VII/26>); (3) PGC (Paturel et al. 1989, Cat. <VII/119>); (4) MCG (Vorontsov-Velyaminov et al. 1962-1968, Cat. <VII/62>, <VII/100>); (5) ESO (Lauberts 1982, Cat. <VII/34>); (6) CfA (Huchra et al. 1994, see Cat <VII/193>), and (7) from van den Bergh (1994, Cat. <J/ApJS/92/219>). The main source of morphological types, major diameters and axial ratios was the RC3; the data from other sources were reduced to the system of RC3. Photographic magnitudes of galaxies were adopted from the UGC and the PGC together with individual data from the literature. The sources of recession velocities or cz values were the RC3, the CfA, the PGC and IAU Circulars. Position angles were taken from the RC3, UGC and the ESO catalogues, and inclination angles were mainly derived from data in RC3 according to Holmberg (1958MeLu2.136....1H). Some data for SNe and host galaxies were adopted from the GCVS (Samus et al. 1995, Cat. <II/205>). This table was created by the HEASARC in June 2005 based on CDS table II/256/sn.dat. Notice that the number of entries (2991) is more than the number of 2780 mentioned in the published reference: this is apparently due to the fact that the CDS table contains supernovae as recent as December 12, 2004, while the latter is complete only until January 6, 2004. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/symbiotics
- Title:
- Symbiotic Stars Catalog
- Short Name:
- Symbiotics
- Date:
- 18 Apr 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This database table contains a catalog of confirmed and suspected symbiotic stars. The list includes 188 symbiotic stars as well as 30 objects suspected of being symbiotic. For each star, basic observational material is presented: coordinates, V and K magnitudes, ultraviolet (UV), infrared (IR), X-ray and radio observations. Also listed are the spectral type of the cool component, the maximum ionization potential observed, references to finding charts, spectra, classifications and recent (as of 2000) papers discussing the physical parameters and nature of each object. This table does NOT contain the information on orbital photometric ephemerides and orbital elements of known symbiotic binaries, pulsational periods for symbiotic Miras, Hipparcos parallaxes and information about outbursts and flickering that is contained in the printed version of the catalog (see Tables 3-7 in the paper for this material). This table was created by the HEASARC in November 2005 based on 4 CDS tables (table1.dat, table1b.dat, table2.dat, table2b.dat) from the directory J/A+AS/146/407/. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/wrcat
- Title:
- The VIIth Catalog of Galactic Wolf-Rayet Stars
- Short Name:
- WR
- Date:
- 18 Apr 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The VIIth Catalogue of Galactic Population I Wolf-Rayet (WR) Stars provides improved coordinates, spectral types, and bv photometry of known WR stars and adds 71 new stars compared to the VIth Catalog. This census of galactic WR stars has reached 227 stars (226 entries in this catalog), comprising 127 WN stars, 87 WC stars, 10 WN/WC stars, and 3 WO stars. This includes 15 WNL and 11 WCL stars within 30 pc of the Galactic Center. The catalog includes information on periodicity, binarity, terminal wind velocities, correlations with open clusters, OB associations, H I bubbles, H II regions, and ring nebulae, observed and dereddened narrow-band bv photometry, and distances, both heliocentric and galactocentric, and lists the references from which this information was obtained. This catalog was created by the HEASARC in April 2001, based on electronic versions of Tables 13, 14, 15, and 28 from the published paper containing the catalog which were directly supplied to the HEASARC by the author. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/tycho2
- Title:
- Tycho-2 Catalog of the 2.5 Million Brightest Stars
- Short Name:
- Tycho-2
- Date:
- 18 Apr 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The Hipparcos and Tycho catalogs are the primary products of the European Space Agency's astrometric mission, Hipparcos. The satellite, which operated for four years, returned high quality scientific data from November 1989 to March 1993. The Tycho-2 catalog is an astrometric reference catalog containing positions and proper motions as well as two-color photometric data for the 2.5 million brightest stars in the sky. The Tycho-2 positions and magnitudes are based on precisely the same observations as the original Tycho catalog (hereafter Tycho-1; see <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/I/239">CDS Cat. I/239</a>) collected by the star mapper of the ESA Hipparcos satellite, but Tycho-2 is much bigger and slightly more precise, owing to a more advanced reduction technique. Components of double stars with separations down to 0.8 arcsec are included. Proper motions precise to about 2.5 mas/yr are given as derived from a comparison with the Astrographic Catalogue and 143 other ground-based astrometric catalogs, all reduced to the Hipparcos celestial coordinate system. Tycho-2 supersedes in most applications Tycho-1, as well as the ACT (<a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/I/246">CDS Cat. I/246</a>) and the TRC (CDS Cat. I/250) catalogs based on Tycho-1. Supplement-1 (not part of this HEASARC database but available at <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/I/259/suppl_1.dat.gz">https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/I/259/suppl_1.dat.gz</a>) lists stars from the Hipparcos and Tycho-1 catalogs which are not in Tycho-2. Supplement-2 (not part of this HEASARC database but available at <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/I/259/suppl_2.dat.gz">https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/I/259/suppl_2.dat.gz</a>) lists 1146 Tycho-1 stars which are probably either false or heavily disturbed. The principal characteristics of the Tycho-2 catalog are summarized below. By means of proper motions the positions are transferred to the year 2000.0, the epoch of the catalog. The median values of internal standard errors are given: <pre> Mean satellite observation epoch ~J1991.5 Epoch of the Tycho-2 catalog J2000.0 Reference system ICRS coincidence with ICRS (1) +/-0.6 mas deviation from inertial (1) +/-0.25 mas/yr Number of entries 2,539,913 Astrometric standard errors (2) V_T < 9 mag 7 mas all stars, positions 60 mas all stars, proper motions 2.5 mas/yr Photometric std. errors (3) on V_T V_T < 9 mag 0.013 mag all stars 0.10 mag Star density b= 0 deg 150 stars/sq.deg. b= +/-30 deg 50 stars/sq.deg. b= +/-90 deg 25 stars/sq.deg. Completeness to 90 per cent V ~ 11.5 mag Completeness to 99 per cent V ~ 11.0 mag Number of Tycho observations ~300 10<sup>6</sup> Note (1): about all 3 axes Note (2): ratio of external to internal standard errors is ~1.0 for positions and for proper motions. Systematic errors are less than 1 mas and 0.5 mas/yr Note (3): ratio of photometric external to internal standard errors at V_T > 9 mag is below 1.5 </pre> For more information on the original catalog, please consult the Tycho-2 home page at <a href="http://www.astro.ku.dk/~erik/Tycho-2">http://www.astro.ku.dk/~erik/Tycho-2</a> For more information on the HEASARC implementation of the Tycho-2 catalog, please consult <a href="#heasarc_implementation">the "HEASARC Implementation" section</a> of this help. This database table was created at the HEASARC in June 2000 based on the ADC/<a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/I/259">CDS Catalog I/259</a>, using the file tyc2.dat. Galactic coordinates (calculated by converting the observed ICRS Equatorial positions) were added to this HEASARC database table in August 2005. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/ulxrbcat
- Title:
- Ultraluminous X-Ray Sources in External Galaxies Catalog
- Short Name:
- ULXRB
- Date:
- 18 Apr 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This table is a catalog of ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) in external galaxies, where ULXs have been defined as compact, off-nuclear X-ray sources with X-ray luminosities in the range of 10<sup>39</sup> - 10<sup>41</sup> erg/s. The aim of this catalog is to provide easy access to the properties of ULXs, their possible counterparts at other wavelengths (optical, IR, and radio), and the properties of their host galaxies. The catalog contains 229 ULXs found in 85 galaxies which had been reported in the astronomy literature as of April 2004. Most ULXs are stellar-mass-black hole X-ray binaries, but it cannot be excluded that some ULXs might be intermediate-mass black holes. A small fraction of the candidate ULXs might be background Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) or Supernova Remnants (SNRs). ULXs with luminosity above 10<sup>40</sup> erg/s are found in both starburst galaxies and in the halos of early-type galaxies. Some notes on individual galaxies and/or ULXs in this catalog can be found in the file <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/429/1125/notes.dat">https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/429/1125/notes.dat</a> which is available at the CDS. This table was created by the HEASARC in January 2005, based on CDS tables J/A+A/429/1125/table1a.dat and table1b.dat. It was updated in September 2012 to correct an error in the declination signs of the NGC 253 objects. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/flarestars
- Title:
- UVCet-typeFlareStars&RelatedObjectsCatalog
- Short Name:
- FlareStars
- Date:
- 18 Apr 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This table contains the catalog of the UV Cet-type flare stars and related objects in the solar vicinity. This new catalog of flare stars includes 463 objects. It contains astrometric, spectral and photometric data as well as information on the infrared, radio and X-ray properties and general stellar parameters. This table was created by the HEASARC in October 2005 based on the merger of 3 CDS tables (table1.dat, table2.dat and atble3.dat) from the <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+AS/139/555/">CDS Catalog J/A+AS/139/555/</a> . This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/uvotbscat
- Title:
- UVOT Bright Star Catalog
- Short Name:
- UVOTBSCAT
- Date:
- 18 Apr 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This catalog was compiled from 4 catalogs: Tycho-2, GVCS III, NGC, and the Yale Bright Star Catalog. All catalogs were preprocessed before compiling this catalog to achieve uniform columns and units. Next, they were merged into one catalogue before eliminating "red" objects and precessing all coordinates to epoch 2000.0. The catalog was then corrected for missing decimal points. Finally, the catalog was sorted by R.A. for ease of locating objects within the catalogue. The original catalog contained 239,853 objects brighter than 12.0 mags. This table was originally created by the HEASARC in July 2008 based on an input table supplied by the Swift Project which was compiled by Elizabeth Auden at MSSL. It was renamed to UVOTBSCAT in January 2009. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/mdwf10pcux
- Title:
- UV/X-Ray Data for M Dwarfs Within 10 Parsecs
- Short Name:
- MDWF10PCUX
- Date:
- 18 Apr 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- M dwarfs are the most numerous stars in the galaxy. They are characterized by strong magnetic activity. The ensuing high-energy emission is crucial for the evolution of their planets and the eventual presence of life on them. The authors systematically study the X-ray and ultraviolet emission of a subsample of M dwarfs from a recent proper-motion survey, selecting all M dwarfs within 10 pc to obtain a nearly volume-limited sample (~90% completeness). Archival ROSAT, XMM-Newton and GALEX data are combined with published spectroscopic studies of H-alpha emission and rotation to obtain a broad picture of stellar activity on M dwarfs. The authors make use of synthetic model spectra to determine the relative contributions of photospheric and chromospheric emission to the ultraviolet flux. They also analyze the same diagnostics for a comparison sample of young M dwarfs in the TW Hya association (~10 Myr old). The authors find that generally the emission in the GALEX bands is dominated by the chromosphere but the photospheric component is not negligible in early-M field dwarfs. The surface fluxes for the H-alpha, near-ultraviolet, far-ultraviolet and X-ray emission are connected via a power-law dependence. The authors present in the reference paper for the first time such flux-flux relations involving broad-band ultraviolet emission for M dwarfs. Activity indices are defined as the flux ratios between the activity diagnostics and the bolometric flux of the star in analogy to the Ca II R'(HK) index. For a given spectral type, these indices display a spread of 2-3 dex which is largest for M4-type stars. Strikingly, at mid-M spectral types, the spread of rotation rates is also at its highest level. The mean activity index for fast rotators, likely representing the saturation level, decreases from X-rays over the FUV to the NUV band and H-alpha, i.e. the fractional radiation output increases with atmospheric height. The comparison to the ultraviolet and X-ray properties of TW Hya members shows a drop of nearly three orders of magnitude for the luminosity in these bands between ~10 Myr and a few Gyr age. A few young field dwarfs (<1 Gyr) in the 10-pc sample bridge the gap indicating that the drop in magnetic activity with age is a continuous process. The slope of the age decay is steeper for the X-ray than for the UV luminosity. This sample is based on the All-Sky Catalog of bright M dwarfs published by Lepine & Gaidos (2011, AJ, 142, 138, <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/AJ/142/138">CDS Cat. J/AJ/142/138</a>, available at the HEASARC as the MDWARFASC table). The authors selected all 163 stars from this reference that are within 10pc. Four of these stars that were discovered to be actually late K-type stars were removed from this initial sample, leaving a final sample of 159 stars. This table was created by the HEASARC in July 2017 based upon <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/MNRAS/431/2063">CDS Catalog J/MNRAS/431/2063</a> files table1.dat and table2.dat. The positions of the stars were not explicitly given in these tables, but were taken by the HEASARC from the All-Sky Catalog of Bright M Dwarfs published by Lepine & Gaidos (2011, AJ, 142, 138, <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/AJ/142/138">CDS Cat. J/AJ/142/138</a>, available at the HEASARC as the MDWARFASC table). The version of Table 2 used by the HEASARC is the corrected one given in the Erratum (Stelzer et al. 2014) rather than the version given in the original paper (Stelzer et al. 2013). This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
