- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/nwayawgros
- Title:
- AllWISE Counterparts and Gaia Matches to ROSAT/2RXS X-Ray Sources
- Short Name:
- NWAYAWGROS
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This table contains the 132,254 AllWISE counterparts and/or Gaia matches to 106,573 X-ray sources detected in the ROSAT 2RXS survey with Galactic latitude |b| > 15 degrees. These are the brightest X-ray sources in the sky, but their position uncertainties and the sparse multi-wavelength coverage until now rendered the identification of their counterparts a demanding task with uncertain results. New all-sky multi-wavelength surveys of sufficient depth, like AllWISE and Gaia, and a new Bayesian statistics-based algorithm, NWAY, allow us, for the first time, to provide reliable counterpart associations. NWAY extends previous distance- and sky density-based association methods and, using one or more priors (e.g. colors, magnitudes), weights the probability that sources from two or more catalogs are simultaneously associated on the basis of their observable characteristics. Here, counterparts have been determined using a Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) color-magnitude prior. A reference sample of 4,524 XMM/Chandra and Swift X-ray sources demonstrates a reliability of 94.7 per cent for 2RXS sources. Combining the results of this work and of the matching of XMM-Newton Slew Survey, Version 2 (XMMSL2) sources also reported in this study (the results of the latter are available as the HEASARC's database table NWAYAWGXMM) with Chandra-COSMOS data, the authors propose a new separation between stars and AGN in the X-ray/WISE flux-magnitude plane, that is valid over six orders of magnitude. The authors also release the NWAY code and its user manual. NWAY was extensively tested with XMM-COSMOS data. Using two different sets of priors, the authors find an agreement of 96 per cent and 99 per cent with published Likelihood Ratio methods. Their results were achieved faster and without any follow-up visual inspection. With the advent of deep and wide area surveys in X-rays (e.g. SRG/eROSITA, Athena/WFI) and radio (ASKAP/EMU, LOFAR, APERTIF, etc.), NWAY will provide a powerful and reliable counterpart identification tool. For all the available options, see the NWAY manual at <a href="https://github.com/JohannesBuchner/nway/raw/master/doc/nway-manual.pdf">https://github.com/JohannesBuchner/nway/raw/master/doc/nway-manual.pdf</a>. This table was created by the HEASARC in February 2018 based on the <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/MNRAS/473/4937">CDS catalog J/MNRAS/473/4937</a> file 2rxswg.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
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- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/nwayawgxmm
- Title:
- AllWISE Counterparts and Gaia Matches to XMM-Newton Slew Survey (v2.0) Sources
- Short Name:
- NWAYAWGXMM
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This table contains the 19,141 AllWISE counterparts and/or Gaia matches to 17,665 X-ray sources detected in the XMM-Newton Slew Survey, Version 2 (hereafter XMMSL2, currently available at the HEASARC as the XMMSLEWCLN table) list of 'Clean' sources that lie at Galactic latitude |b| > 15 degrees. These are among the brightest X-ray sources in the sky, but their position uncertainties and the sparse multi-wavelength coverage until now have rendered the identification of their counterparts a demanding task with uncertain results. New all-sky multi-wavelength surveys of sufficient depth, like AllWISE and Gaia, and a new Bayesian statistics-based algorithm, NWAY, allow us, for the first time, to provide reliable counterpart associations. NWAY extends previous distance- and sky density-based association methods and, using one or more priors (e.g. colors, magnitudes), weights the probability that sources from two or more catalogs are simultaneously associated on the basis of their observable characteristics. Here, counterparts have been determined using a Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) color-magnitude prior. A reference sample of 4,524 XMM/Chandra and Swift X-ray sources demonstrates a reliability of 97.4 per cent for XMMSL2 sources. Combining the results of this work and of the matching of ROSAT All-Sky Survey 2RXS sources also reported in this study (the results of the latter are available as the HEASARC's database table NWAYAWGROS) with Chandra-COSMOS data, the authors propose a new separation between stars and AGN in the X-ray/WISE flux-magnitude plane, that is valid over six orders of magnitude. The authors also release the NWAY code and its user manual. NWAY was extensively tested with XMM-COSMOS data. Using two different sets of priors, the authors find an agreement of 96 per cent and 99 per cent with published Likelihood Ratio methods. Their results were achieved faster and without any follow-up visual inspection. With the advent of deep and wide area surveys in X-rays (e.g. SRG/eROSITA, Athena/WFI) and radio (ASKAP/EMU, LOFAR, APERTIF, etc.), NWAY will provide a powerful and reliable counterpart identification tool. For all the available options, see the NWAY manual at <a href="https://github.com/JohannesBuchner/nway/raw/master/doc/nway-manual.pdf">https://github.com/JohannesBuchner/nway/raw/master/doc/nway-manual.pdf</a>. This table was created by the HEASARC in February 2018 based on the <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/MNRAS/473/4937">CDS catalog J/MNRAS/473/4937</a> file xmmslew2.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/alfperxmm
- Title:
- Alpha Per Open Cluster XMM-Newton X-Ray Source Catalog
- Short Name:
- ALFPERXMM
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This table contains results from the analysis of an archival XMM-Newton observation of part of the Alpha Persei open cluster. The authors detected 102 X-ray sources in the energy band from 0.3 to 8.0 keV, of which 39 of them are associated with the cluster as evidenced by their appropriate magnitudes and colors from Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) photometry. In the reference paper, the authors extend the X-ray luminosity distribution (XLD) of the Alpha Persei cluster for M dwarfs, to add to the XLD found for hotter dwarfs from spatially extensive surveys of the whole cluster by ROSAT. Some of the hotter stars are identified as a background, possible slightly older group of stars at a distance of approximately 500 pc. Alpha Per is a young open cluster, found to be 50 Myr old from its upper main sequence turnoff morphology (Meynet et al. 1993, A&AS, 98, 477). More recently, Stauffer et al. (1999, ApJ, 527, 219) have found an age of 90 Myr from the low mass lithium depletion boundary. In addition to being relatively nearby (170 pc; Randich et al. 1996, A&A, 305, 785), the Alpha Per cluster is also lightly reddened (E(B - V ) = 0.09 mag; Meynet et al. 1993), making the data interpretation relatively robust. A fraction of the Alpha Per cluster was observed by XMM-Newton as part of the Mission Scientist Guaranteed Time (Pallavicini et al., 2004, MmSAI, 75, 434). A 60-ks observation was obtained on 2000 September 5 using the EPIC MOS and PN cameras on board XMM-Newton with a pointing centered at RA: 3<sup>h</sup> 26<sup>m</sup> 16<sup>s</sup> and Dec: 48<sup>o</sup> 50<sup>m</sup> 29<sup>s</sup> (J2000.0). This table was created by the HEASARC in June 2014 based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/AJ/145/143">CDS Catalog J/AJ/145/143</a> files table1.dat and table2.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/amigps16gh
- Title:
- AMI Galactic Plane Survey 16-GHz Source Catalog
- Short Name:
- AMIGPS16GH
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI) Galactic Plane Survey is a large-area survey of the outer Galactic plane to provide arcminute resolution (approximately 3 arcminutes) images at milli-Jansky (mJy) sensitivity in the centimeter-wave band. This table contains results from the first data release of the survey, consisting of 868 deg<sup>2</sup> of the Galactic plane, covering the area above 40 degrees Declination (corresponding to 76 to 170 degrees Galactic Longitude) between Galactic Latitudes of -5 to +5 degrees at a central frequency of 15.75 GHz (1.9 cm). The noise level in the survey is <~ 3mJy/beam away from bright sources. This table contains the source catalog of 3503 radio sources detected with peak flux densities at or greater than 5 sigma. In their paper, the authors describe in detail the drift-scan observations which have been used to construct the maps, including the techniques used for observing, mapping and source extraction, and summarize the properties of the finalized data sets. These observations constitute the most sensitive Galactic plane survey of large extent at centimeter-wave frequencies greater than 1.4 GHz. This table was originally ingested by the HEASARC in March 2013 based on the <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/MNRAS/429/3330">CDS Catalog J/MNRAS/429/3330</a> file catdr1.dat. It was updated in September 2013 using the latest data file from the CDS, which provided positions with improved precision. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/ansuvpscat
- Title:
- ANS Ultraviolet Photometry Catalog of Point Sources
- Short Name:
- ANSUVPSCAT
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- All reliable observations of point sources with the ultraviolet photometer onboard the Astronomical Netherlands Satellite (ANS) operating between the October 1974 and April 1976 are presented. Extended objects, non-detected objects, and objects at the edges of the instrument's field of view have been omitted. The catalog contains 3573 objects, mostly stars (the total ANS UV database contained 4800 observed positions). The ANS satellite observed in five UV channels centered around 150, 180, 220, 250 and 330 nm (1500, 1800, 2200, 2500 and 3300 Angstroms). The characteristics of the ANS UV photometric bands are: <pre> Band designation 15N 15W 18 22 25 33 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Central wavelength (nm) 154.5 154.9 179.9 220.0 249.3 329.4 Bandwidth (nm) 5.0 14.9 14.9 20.0 15.0 10.1 </pre> The reported magnitudes were obtained from mean count rates converted to fluxes using the ANS absolute calibration of Wesselius et al. (1980A&A....85..221W). In addition to the ultraviolet magnitudes, the catalog contains positions taken from the satellite pointing, spectral types, and UBV data from other sources as well as comments on duplicity, variability, and miscellaneous notes concerning individual objects. Within the ANS photometric system, the UV magnitudes of different objects are comparable down to a level of 0.5-1.0%. Several studies on the intercomparison of all ANS data, and on the comparison of the ANS data with stellar models, with other UV satellites, and with the expected UV fluxes on the basis of ground-based information alone suggest that the ANS photometric system is well-established, and has, in particular, a linear dynamic range of at least a factor of 20,000. In these two respects, repeatability and dynamic range, the ANS UV instrument far exceeded all other UV missions then extant, e.g., TD-S2/68, OAO-WEP, and IUE. Of course, ANS had a much poorer spectral resolution, about 15 nm (150 Angstroms), than the other instruments. This table was created by the HEASARC in September 2011 based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/II/97">CDS Catalog II/97</a> file ans.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/arcquincxo
- Title:
- Arches and Quintuplet Clusters Chandra X-Ray Point Source Catalog
- Short Name:
- ARCQUINCXO
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The Galactic centre (GC) provides a unique laboratory for a detailed examination of the interplay between massive star formation and the nuclear environment of our Galaxy. Here are presented some of the results from a 100-ks Chandra Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS) observation of the Arches and Quintuplet star clusters in the form of a catalog of 244 point-like X-ray sources detected in the observation. The deep Chandra ACIS-I observation (Obs. ID: 4500) was carried out on 2004 June 9. The Arches cluster was placed about 1-arcmin away from the aim point to minimize the effect of the CCD gaps on mapping the extended X-ray emission around the cluster. This table was created by the HEASARC in July 2007 based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/MNRAS/371/38">CDS Catalog J/MNRAS/371/38</a> file table1.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/acceptcat
- Title:
- Archive of Chandra Cluster Entropy Profile Tables (ACCEPT) Catalog
- Short Name:
- ACCEPTCAT
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This table, the Archive of Chandra Cluster Entropy Profile Tables (ACCEPT) Catalog, contains the radial entropy profiles of the intracluster medium (ICM) for a collection of 239 clusters taken from the Chandra X-ray Observatory's Data Archive. Entropy is of great interest because it controls ICM global properties and records the thermal history of a cluster. The authors find that most ICM entropy profiles are well fitted by a model which is a power law at large radii and approaches a constant value at small radii: K(r) = K<sub>0</sub> + K<sub>100</sub> (r/100 kpc)<sup>alpha</sup>, where K<sub>0</sub> quantifies the typical excess of core entropy above the best-fitting power law found at larger radii. The authors also show that the K<sub>0</sub> distributions of both the full archival sample and the primary Highest X-Ray Flux Galaxy Cluster Sample of Reiprich (2001, Ph.D. thesis) are bimodal with a distinct gap between K<sub>0</sub> ~ 30 - 50 keV cm<sup>2</sup> and population peaks at K<sub>0</sub> ~ 15 keV cm<sup>2</sup> and K<sub>0</sub> ~ 150 keV cm<sup>2</sup>. The effects of point-spread function smearing and angular resolution on best-fit K<sub>0</sub> values are investigated using mock Chandra observations and degraded entropy profiles, respectively. The authors find that neither of these effects is sufficient to explain the entropy-profile flattening they measure at small radii. The influence of profile curvature and the number of radial bins on the best-fit K<sub>0</sub> is also considered, and they find no indication that K<sub>0</sub> is significantly impacted by either. All data and results associated with this work are publicly available via the project web site <a href="http://www.pa.msu.edu/astro/MC2/accept/">http://www.pa.msu.edu/astro/MC2/accept/</a>. The sample is collected from observations taken with the Chandra X-ray Observatory and which were publicly available in the CDA (Chandra Data Archive) as of 2008 August. This table was created by the HEASARC in January 2012 based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/ApJS/182/12">CDS Catalog J/ApJS/182/12</a> files table1.dat and table5.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/ariel5
- Title:
- Ariel V All-Sky Monitor
- Short Name:
- ARIEL5
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The All Sky Monitor was one of six X-ray instruments on the Ariel 5 satellite. The satellite was launched into a low inclination (2.8 degrees), nearly circular orbit (altitude ~520 km) on 15 October 1974. Ariel 5 was actively pointed so that objects of interest could be observed by the four instruments aligned along its spin axis. The ASM was mounted 90 degrees from the spin axis; the satellite had a spin period of 6 seconds. The ASM operated from October 18, 1974 to March 10, 1980. The ASM instrument, built by the Lab for High Energy Astrophysics at NASA- Goddard Space Flight Center, provided continuous coverage of the entire sky, except for a 20 degree band straddling the satellite's equator. The ASM was intended to act as an early detection system for transients, and to monitor the variability of bright ( > 0.2 Crab) galactic sources. The instrument consisted of a pair of X-ray pinhole cameras, each covering opposite halves of the sky, with gas-filled imaging proportional counters. Position determination of sources was accomplished through position-sensitive anode wires and satellite rotation. Each camera had a 1-cm<sup>2</sup> aperture. Overall telemetry constraints limited the duty cycle for any given source to 1 percent. With the low telemetry rate provided for this instrument (1 bit/s), temporal and spectral information were sacrificed for the sake of all-sky coverage. Hence, spectral information was limited to a single 3 - 6 keV bandpass, and temporal resolution was limited to the satellite orbital period, ~100 minutes. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/ascaegclus
- Title:
- ASCA Elliptical Galaxies and Galaxy Clusters Catalog
- Short Name:
- ASCAEGCLUS
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- Utilizing ASCA archival data of about 300 objects - elliptical galaxies, groups, and clusters of galaxies - the authors performed systematic measurements of the X-ray properties of hot gas in their systems, and compiled them in this study. The steepness (power-law slope) of the luminosity-temperature (L-T) relation, L<sub>X</sub> ~ kT<sup>alpha</sup>, in the range of kT ~ 1.5 - 15 keV is alpha = 3.17 +/- 0.15, consistent with previous measurements. In the relation, the authors find two breaks at around intracluster medium (ICM) temperatures of 1 keV and 4 keV: alpha = 2.34 +/- 0.29 above 4 keV, 3.74 +/- 0.32 in the 1.5 to 5 keV range, and 4.03 +/- 1.07 below 1.5 keV. Two such breaks are also evident in the temperature and size relation. The steepness in the L-T relation at kT > 4 keV is consistent with the scale-relation derived from the CDM model, indicating that the gravitational effect is dominant in richer clusters, while poorer clusters suffer non-gravity effects. The steep L-T relation below 1 keV is mostly attributed to X-ray faint systems of elliptical galaxies and galaxy groups. The authors find that the ICM mass within the scaling radius R<sub>1500</sub> (the radius within which the averaged mass density is 1500 times higher than the critical density) follows the relation of M<sub>gas</sub> ~ T<sup>(2.33+/-0.07)</sup> from X-ray faint galaxies to rich clusters. Thus, the authors speculate that even such X-ray faint systems contain large-scale hot gas, which is too faint to detect. For this project, the authors utilized all of the ASCA data of elliptical galaxies and clusters of galaxies. Several clusters were observed more than once, and they chose the observation with the longest exposure. The total number of objects that the authors identified as elliptical galaxies and clusters was 313, and these are listed in this table. Some of the objects could not be utilized for deriving various correlations, due to either having an unknown redshift (17 objects), an insignificant detection (13 objects listed below), or contamination of the environmental X-ray emission, such as cluster emission around non-cD elliptical galaxies (10 objects: NGC 4472, NGC 4406, NGC 4374, NGC 1404, NGC 499, NGC 6034, NGC 2865, NGC 4291, CL 2236-04 and RX J1031.6-2607). Thus, the authors analyzed the ASCA data for 292 objects, among which were ~ 50 elliptical galaxies and galaxy groups. In this study, the authors assumed the Hubble constant to be 50 h<sub>50</sub> km s<sup>-1</sup> Mpc<sup>-1</sup> and q<sub>0</sub> to be 0. Table 1 of the reference paper (reproduced below) lists the 13 clusters for which only 90% confidence level upper limits to the flux in the observer's frame are available: <pre> Name Flux (0.5 - 2 keV) Upper Limit (erg/s/cm<sup>2</sup>) NGC 5018 9.8 x 10<sup>14</sup> GHO 1322+3114 1.3 x 10<sup>13</sup> J1888.16CL 5.9 x 10<sup>14</sup> CL 0317+1521 4.5 x 10<sup>14</sup> MS 1512.4+3647 1.0 x 10<sup>12</sup> PRG 38 6.9 x 10<sup>14</sup> SCGG 205 6.9 x 10<sup>14</sup> RGH 101 9.1 x 10<sup>14</sup> 3C 184 8.5 x 10<sup>14</sup> RX J1756.5+6512 1.6 x 10<sup>13</sup> 3C 324 5.4 x 10<sup>14</sup> PDCS 01 2.8 x 10<sup>14</sup> MS 0147.8-3941 5.0 x 10<sup>14</sup> </pre> This table was created by the HEASARC in December 2011 based on CDA Catalog J/PASJ/56/965 files table3.dat, table4.dat, table5.dat, table6.dat and table7.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/ascagps
- Title:
- ASCA Galactic Plane Survey of Faint X-Ray Sources
- Short Name:
- ASCAGPS
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- Sugizaki et al. (2001) have published a study of faint X-ray sources that were resolved in the ASCA Galactic Plane Survey and their contribution to the galactic ridge X-ray emission, and the present database contains their list of discrete sources. The X-ray emission from the central region of the Galactic plane, |l|<~45 degrees and |b|<~0.4 degrees, was studied in the 0.7 to 10 keV energy band with a spatial resolution of ~3' with the Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics (ASCA) observatory. The authors developed a new analysis method for the ASCA data to resolve discrete sources from the extended Galactic ridge X-ray emission (GRXE). Using the ASCA Gas Imaging Spectrometers (GISs), they successfully resolved 163 discrete sources with X-ray fluxes down to 10<sup>-12</sup>.5<sup>ergs/cm</sup>2/s and determined the intensity variations of the GRXE as a function of the Galactic longitude with a spatial resolution of about 1 degree. This database was created by the HEASARC in December 2001 based on the ADC/<a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/ApJS/134/77/table2">CDS Catalog J/ApJS/134/77/table2</a>.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
