- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/hmxbcat2
- Title:
- Catalog of High-Mass X-Ray Binaries in the Galaxy (Dynamic Version)
- Short Name:
- HMXBCAT2
- Date:
- 18 Apr 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- High-Mass X-ray Binaries (HMXBs) are a particular class of high-energy sources which require multi-wavelength observational efforts to be properly characterized. New identifications and refinement of previous measurements are regularly published in the literature by independent teams of researchers and could, once collected in a catalog, offer a tool to facilitate further studies on HMXBs. The authors aim to update on previous instances of catalogs of HMXBs in the Galaxy, and provide the community easy access to the most complete set of observables on Galactic HMXBs. On top of the fixed version that is available in VizieR, they also aim to host and maintain a dynamic version that can be updated upon request from users, and where any modification will be logged. Using previous catalogs of HMXBs supplemented by listings of hard X-ray sources detected in the past 20 years, the authors produce a base set of HMXBs and candidates by means of identifier and sky coordinate cross-matches. They query SIMBAD for unreferenced HMXBs. They search for as many hard X-ray, soft X-ray, optical and infrared counterparts to the HMXBs as we can in well-known catalogs and compile their coordinates. Each HMXB is subject to a meticulous search in the literature to find relevant measurements and their original reference. The authors provide a catalog of HMXBs in the Galaxy with their best known coordinates, companion star spectral type, systemic radial velocities, component masses, orbital period, eccentricity and spin period when available. This catalog also provides the coordinates and identifiers for each counterpart found from hard X-rays to near-infrared, including counterparts from the recent Gaia DR3 catalog. This catalog was created from data-mining the published literature. It takes into account information available through 2022. Values for binary parameters are joined with a reference in which the value was derived. Position data for which the authors have manually found a counterpart also have a specific reference; if not, then the data comes directly from the corresponding catalog. This database table was first created by the HEASARC in October 2023, based on the 2023-09 version of this catalog, found from the <a href="https://binary-revolution.github.io/HMXBwebcat/">Binary rEvolution website</a>. It is automatically updated in the HEASARC database within a few days of a new version being released on that website. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
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- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/hmxbcat
- Title:
- Catalog of High-Mass X-Ray Binaries in the Galaxy (4th Ed.)
- Short Name:
- HM XRB
- Date:
- 18 Apr 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This table contains the 4th edition of the Catalog of High-Mass X-Ray Binaries (HMXBs) in the Galaxy. The catalog contains source name(s), coordinates, finding charts, X-ray luminosities, system parameters, and stellar parameters of the components and other characteristic properties for 114 HMXBs, together with a comprehensive selection of the relevant literature. The aim of this catalog is to provide some basic information on the X-ray sources and their counterparts in other wavelength ranges (gamma-rays, UV, optical, IR, radio). About 60% of the high-mass X-ray binary candidates are known or suspected Be/X-ray binaries, while 32% are supergiant/X-ray binaries. Some sources, however, are only tentatively identified as high-mass X-ray binaries on the basis of their X-ray properties similar to the known high-mass X-ray binaries. Further identification in other wavelength bands is needed to finally determine the nature of these sources. In cases where there is some doubt about the high-mass nature of the X-ray binary this is noted. Literature published before 1 October 2005 has, as far as possible, been taken into account. Information on the numbers used to code references is available at the URL <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/455/1165/refs.dat">https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/455/1165/refs.dat</a> Individual notes on each HMXB are available at the URL <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/455/1165/notes.dat">https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/455/1165/notes.dat</a> This database was first created by the HEASARC in January 2001, based on the 2000 version of this catalog. It was updated to the 4th edition in September 2006, based on the <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/455/1165">CDS catalog J/A+A/455/1165</a>. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/changalxrb
- Title:
- Chandra X-Ray Binary Catalog of SINGS Galaxies
- Short Name:
- CHANGALXRB
- Date:
- 18 Apr 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The authors of this catalog presented new Chandra constraints on the X-ray luminosity functions (XLFs) of X-ray binary (XRB) populations, as well as their scaling relations, for a sample of 38 nearby galaxies (D = 3.4-29 Mpc). The galaxy sample is drawn primarily from the Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey (SINGS) and contains a wealth of Chandra (5.8 Ms total) and multiwavelength data, allowing for star formation rates (SFRs) and stellar masses (M<sub>*</sub>) to be measured on subgalactic scales. The authors divided the 2478 X-ray-detected sources into 21 subsamples in bins of specific SFR (sSFR=SFR/M<sub>*</sub>) and constructed XLFs. To model the XLF dependence on sSFR, they fitted a global XLF model, containing contributions from high-mass XRBs (HMXBs), low-mass XRBs (LMXBs), and background sources from the cosmic X-ray background that respectively scale with SFR, M<sub>*</sub>, and sky area. They found an HMXB XLF that is more complex in shape than previously reported and an LMXB XLF that likely varies with sSFR, potentially due to an age dependence. When applying the global model to XLF data for each individual galaxy, the authors discovered a few galaxy XLFs that significantly deviated from their model beyond statistical scatter. Most notably, relatively low-metallicity galaxies have an excess of HMXBs above ~10<sup>38</sup>erg/s, and elliptical galaxies that have relatively rich populations of globular clusters (GCs) show excesses of LMXBs compared to the global model. Additional modeling of how the XRB XLF depends on stellar age, metallicity, and GC specific frequency is required to sufficiently characterize the XLFs of galaxies. In this work, the authors utilized 5.8 Ms of Chandra ACIS data, combined with UV-to-IR observations, for 38 nearby (D < ~30 Mpc) Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey (SINGS; Kennicutt+ <a href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003PASP..115..928K">2003PASP..115..928K</a>) galaxies to revisit scaling relations of the HMXB and LMXB X-ray luminosity functions (XLFs) with SFR and M<sub>*</sub>, respectively. This table contains the X-ray properties for 4442 X-ray point sources, including those with L<sub>X</sub> < 10<sup>35</sup>erg/s, which were excluded from the XLF analysis. This table was created by the HEASARC in April 2023 based upon the <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/ApJS/243/3">CDS Catalog J/ApJS/243/3</a> file table7.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/vlulxcat
- Title:
- Extremely Luminous X-Ray Source Candidates Catalog
- Short Name:
- VLULXCAT
- Date:
- 18 Apr 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- Using Chandra archive data, the authors conducted a thorough survey of luminous X-ray sources. They directly analyzed about 9400 Chandra ACIS observations and cross-correlated the detected X-ray sources with 77,000 galaxies within a distance of 250 Mpc. The final catalog includes 119 unique luminous X-ray source candidates with L<sub>X</sub> > 3 x 10<sup>40</sup> erg/s from 93 galaxies or 41 HLX candidates with L<sub>X</sub> > 1 x 10<sup>41</sup> erg/s from 35 galaxies. The authors derive a moderate contamination rate due to foreground or background sources. In the reference paper, they also cross-correlate the catalog with FIRST, perform variability and periodicity tests, and analyze one HLX candidate in particular. This catalog could be a starting point to perform follow-up observations. In order to know whether an X-ray source falls within a particular galaxy, for each galaxy, the authors collected its center's RA, Dec, distance, and D<sub>25</sub> isophotal info, which includes major axis length, minor axis length, and the position angle of the major axis from the PGC2003 Catalog (Paturel et al. 2003, A&A, 412, 45), which includes the full RC3 catalog and has all of the necessary parameters except for distance. The authors restricted the minimum major axis length to be 10 arcseconds, and collected their distances from NED as much as possible. Their final sample includes 77,000 galaxies within 250 Mpc. The authors used all of the Chandra ACIS data in TE mode that were released before 2014, which includes 9400 ObsIDs. A roughly linear relation between the flux and count rate derived by PIMMS 4.6b was established assuming a power-law spectral shape and galactic foreground extinction (Kalberla et al. 2005, A&A, 440, 775). Any source with a PIMMS luminosity larger than 5 x 10<sup>39</sup> erg s<sup>-1</sup> would be recalculated by the CIAO script model flux assuming a power-law index of 1.7 in the 0.3 - 8.0 keV energy band. After the recalculation, 1,809 X-ray sources with L<sub>x</sub> > 3 x 10<sup>40</sup> erg s<sup>-1</sup> falling within 640 D<sub>25</sub> contours covered by 905 ObsIDs were picked out. A large fraction of the 1,809 sources are galactic nuclei and some of them are repeated. Only off-nuclear sources are considered in this paper. In addition, the centers of the galaxies given by PGC2003 are not necessarily precise and the specific environments of the 1,809 sources are different. Therefore, the authors visually checked the Chandra and DSS images simultaneously, since two-band inspection can help to exclude the nuclear sources, bright knots, and extended sources. X-ray sources with clear DSS features would be dropped because, for a source with a visual magnitude <20 and a distance >30 Mpc, its absolute magnitude would be brighter than -12.4, which is beyond the limit of the brightest star clusters. This table was created by the HEASARC in February 2017 based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/ApJS/222/12">CDS Catalog J/ApJS/222/12</a> file table1.dat, the list of very luminous X-ray source candidates found within the D<sub>25</sub> ellipses of Chandra ACIS-observed PGC2003 galaxies lying within 250 Mpc. Some of the values for the name parameter in the HEASARC's implementation of this table were corrected in April 2018. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/fermilasp
- Title:
- Fermi LAT Monitored Source List
- Short Name:
- FERMILASP
- Date:
- 18 Apr 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The Fermi LAT table of monitored sources provides daily and weekly fluxes for sources of interest as described in <a href="http://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/ssc/data/policy/LAT_Monitored_Sources.html">http://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/ssc/data/policy/LAT_Monitored_Sources.html</a>. In addition, similar information will be released for any source which flares above 2x10<sup>-6</sup> photons cm<sup>-2</sup> s<sup>-1</sup> until the flux drops below 2x10<sup>-7</sup> photons cm<sup>-2</sup> s<sup>-1</sup>. Fermi is currently in survey mode and observes the entire sky every day. However, if a source does not exceed the detection threshold, no entry will appear in this catalog. The tabulated fluxes are derived at the LAT Instrument Science Operations center in a 'quick look' analysis to produce results quickly to facilitate follow-up multi-wavelength observations of flaring sources. The table of released fluxes will be updated as analysis and calibrations improve. <b>These early flux estimates do not include systematic uncertainties and do not</b> <b>have an absolute flux calibration</b>. Use of these data as absolute flux measurements for constraining models or for comparison to other data is strongly discouraged at this time. In addition to overall normalization uncertainties, source fluxes may have variations of up to 10% due to currently-uncorrected dependencies of the gamma-ray detection efficiency on variations of the particle background in orbit. Please note that these results are produced using preliminary instrument response functions and calibrations. The quality and stability of these results will improve when updated calibrations become available over the coming months. This database table is created by the HEASARC from FITS tables received from the Fermi Science Support Center (FSSC). The ASP FITS files are produced by the LAT Instrument Science Operations Center (LISOC) and transferred from the LISOC to the FSSC about once per week. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/lmxbcat
- Title:
- Low-Mass X-Ray Binary Catalog (4th Edition, 2007)
- Short Name:
- LMXB
- Date:
- 18 Apr 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This is the Fourth Edition of the Catalog of Low-mass X-ray Binaries (LMXBs) in the Galaxy and the Magellanic Clouds. The catalog has a companion catalog of high-mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs) which is called HMXBCAT in the HEASARC database system). The catalog contains source name(s), coordinates, X-ray flux, system parameters, and stellar parameters of the components and other characteristic properties of 187 low-mass X-ray binaries, together with references to a comprehensive selection of the relevant literature. The aim of this catalog is to provide some basic information on the X-ray sources and their counterparts in other wavelength ranges (gamma-rays, UV, optical, IR, and radio). Some sources, however, are only tentatively identified as low-mass X-ray binaries on the basis of their X-ray properties being similar to the known low-mass X-ray binaries. Further identification in other wavelength bands is needed to finally determine the nature of these sources. In cases where there is some doubt about the low-mass nature of the X-ray binary, this is mentioned. Literature published before 1 October 2006 has, as far as possible, been taken into account. This online catalog was created by the HEASARC in September 2007 based on machine-readable tables obtained from the ADC/CDS data centers (their catalog J/A+A/469/807, tables lmxb.dat and lmxbnote.dat). This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/maghmxbcat
- Title:
- Magellanic Clouds High-Mass X-Ray Binaries Catalog
- Short Name:
- MCHMXRB
- Date:
- 18 Apr 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This database table contains a catalog of high-mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs) in the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds (SMC and LMC). The catalog lists source name(s), coordinates, apparent magnitudes, orbital parameters, and X-ray luminosities for 128 HMXBs, together with the stellar parameters of the components, other characteristic properties and a comprehensive selection of the relevant literature. The aim of this catalog is to provide easy access to the basic information on the X-ray sources and their counterparts in other wavelength ranges (UV, optical, IR, radio). Most of the sources have been identified as Be/X-ray binaries. Some sources, however, are only tentatively identified as HMXBs on the basis of a transient character and/or a hard X-ray spectrum. Further identification in other wavelength bands is needed to finally determine the nature of these sources. In cases where there is some doubt about the high-mass nature of the X-ray binary this is mentioned. Literature published before 1 May 2005 has, as far as possible, been taken into account. Information on the numbers used to code references is available at <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/442/1135/refs.dat">CDS</a>. Individual notes on each HMXB are also available for <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/442/1135/notes1.dat">SMC systems</a> and for <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/442/1135/notes2.dat">LMC systems</a> at the same site. This Browse table contains the combination of 92 HMXBs in the SMC and 36 HMXBs in the LMC which were listed in Tables 1 and 2, respectively, of the published version of this catalog. The HEASARC has added a parameter called cloud_id which can be used to identify which Magellanic Cloud any specified HMXB belongs to (the SMC or the LMC). This database was created by the HEASARC in December 2005 based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/442/1135">CDS Catalog J/A+A/442/1135</a>, table1.dat and table2.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/m83xrbcxo
- Title:
- M 83 Chandra X-Ray Binary Classifications Using HST
- Short Name:
- M83XRBCXO
- Date:
- 18 Apr 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- Building on recent work by Chandar+ (2020, J/ApJ/890/150), the authors constructed X-ray luminosity functions (XLFs) for different classes of X-ray binary (XRB) donors in the nearby star-forming galaxy M 83. Rather than classifying low-versus high-mass XRBs based on the scaling of the number of X-ray sources with stellar mass and star formation rate, respectively, this catalog utilized multi-band Hubble Space Telescope imaging data to classify each Chandra-detected compact X-ray source as a low-mass (i.e., donor mass < ~3M<sub>sun</sub>), high-mass (donor mass > ~8M<sub>sun</sub>), or intermediate-mass XRB based on either the location of its candidate counterpart on optical color-magnitude diagrams or the age of its host star cluster. In addition to the standard (single and/or truncated) power-law functional shape, the authors approximated the resulting XLFs with a Schechter function. They identified a marginally significant (at the 1-sigma to 2-sigma level) exponential downturn for the high-mass XRB XLF, at l~38.48<sub>-0.33</sub><sup>+0.52</sup> (in log CGS units). In contrast, the low- and intermediate-mass XRB XLFs, as well as the total XLF of M 83, are formally consistent with sampling statistics from a single power law. This method suggests a non-negligible contribution from low- and possibly intermediate-mass XRBs to the total XRB XLF of M 83, i.e., between 20% and 50%, in broad agreement with X-ray-based XLFs. More generally, the authors caution against considerable contamination from X-ray emitting supernova remnants to the published, X-ray-based XLFs of M 83, and possibly all actively star-forming galaxies. This table presents a fully classified catalog of X-ray sources in M 83 that builds upon the deep Chandra ACIS imaging data published in Lehmer+ 2019 (J/ApJS/243/3). Out of a total of 456 point-like sources brighter than 10<sup>35</sup>erg/s, this work restricts the analysis to the 325 objects that fall within the M 83 HST footprint. HST observations of M 83 were taken with the WFC3/UVIS instrument, spanning seven fields that each cover approximately 162" x 162" for a total mosaic area of ~43 arcmin<sup>2</sup>. All observations were obtained between 2009 August and 2012 September by R. O'Connell (Prop ID. 11360) and W. Blair (Prop ID. 12513), with exposure times ranging from ~1.2 to 2.7 ks for each image. Images were downloaded from the Hubble Legacy Archive (HLA). In general, BVI images are created using the F438W, F547M, and F814W filters. The central field, which includes the galaxy nucleus, uses the broader F555W V-band filter, rather than F547M. The authors also use U-band images (F336W) to help calculate cluster ages. This table was created by the HEASARC in March 2023 based upon the <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/ApJ/912/31">CDS Catalog J/ApJ/912/31</a> file tablea2.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/ritterlmxb
- Title:
- Ritter Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries Catalog (7.21 Edition)
- Short Name:
- Ritter/LMXB
- Date:
- 18 Apr 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This HEASARC database table contains information on low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) only, as taken from the Catalog of Cataclysmic Binaries, Low-Mass X-ray Binaries, and Related Objects (7th Edition, Release 7.21, March 2014) of Ritter & Kolb. The complete catalog lists coordinates, apparent magnitudes, orbital parameters, stellar parameters of the components, and other characteristic properties of 1166 cataclysmic binaries, 105 low-mass X-ray binaries, and 500 related objects with known or suspected orbital periods. The HEASARC has for simplicity split this catalog into three Browse database tables, one for each class of objects: the present table (RITTERLMXB) containing the low-mass X-ray binaries' data, a second one (<a href="/W3Browse/star-catalog/rittercv.html">RITTERCV</a>) containing cataclysmic binaries' data, and a third one (<a href="/W3Browse/star-catalog/rittercv.html">RITTERRBIN</a>) containing the related binaries' data. The literature published before 1 January 2014 has, as far as possible, been taken into account. Low-mass X-ray binaries are semi-detached binaries consisting of either a neutron star or a black hole primary, and a low-mass secondary which is filling its critical Roche lobe. This table was last updated by the HEASARC in April 2014 based on the lmxbdata.dat file from the <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/B/cb">CDS Catalog B/cb</a>. 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 .
