- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/skyview/rassback
- Title:
- ROSAT All-Sky X-ray Background Survey: Band 1
- Short Name:
- RASSBACK
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- These maps present maps of ROSAT soft X-ray all-sky survey as presented in Snowden et al, ApJ 485, 125 (1997). The maps cover approximately 98% of the sky. These maps have had all point sources removed These surveys supercede the RASS0.25, RASS0.75 and RASS1.5 Kev surveys previously provided. Those surveys may still be invoked in SkyView using batch and jar tools but are not accessible on the Web page. <p> The seven maps correspond to ranges in the pulse height analysis of the photons detected. Since the energy resolution of the PSPC is poor, there is consider overlap between adjacent bands. <p> The energy range for the bands corresponds to: <table><tr><th>Band</th><th>Energy range (keV)</th></tr> <tr><td>Band 1</td><td>0.11 - 0.284</td><tr> <tr><td>Band 2</td><td>0.14 - 0.284</td><tr> <tr><td>Band 3</td><td>0.2 - 0.83</td></tr> <tr><td>Band 4</td><td>0.44 - 1.01</td><tr> <tr><td>Band 5</td><td>0.56 - 1.21</td><tr> <tr><td>Band 6</td><td>0.73 - 1.56</td><tr> <tr><td>Band 7</td><td>1.05 - 2.04</td><tr> </table> Note the substantial overlap between bands. Each photon detected is assigned to a band based on the pulse height analysis for that photon, but the energy resolution of the detectors is relatively poor. Also note that Band 3 was not included in the reference paper due to poor statistics and background modeling. <p> SkyView has several other sets of surveys derived from ROSAT data with substantially higher resolution and which include point sources. The RASS surveys are derived from the RASS all sky survey. These include count and intensity maps. The PSPC maps are dervived from the PSPC pointed observations which were combined by SkyView. The HRI survey is derived from a similar mosaicking of all HRI observations. Provenance: Max Planck Institute for Exterrestrial Physics (Garching FRG). This is a service of NASA HEASARC.
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- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/skyview/rass3
- Title:
- ROSAT All-Sky X-ray Survey Broad Band: Intensity
- Short Name:
- RASS3
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The ROSAT All-Sky X-ray Survey was obtained during 1990/1991 using the ROSAT Position Sensitive Proportional Counter (PSPC) in combination with the ROSAT X-ray Telescope (XRT). More than 60,000 X-ray sources were detected during this time. <p> SkyView has multiple surveys derived from the RASS data. The surveys whose RASS are counts and exposure maps from the survey. Previously The RASSBCK maps have had the point sources removed to show the diffuse X-ray background and are presended at lower resolution. <p> The full-resolution RASS surveys data are organized in 1378 fields each 6.4&#176;; x 6.4&#176;; covering the whole sky. Neighboring fields overlap by at least 0.23&#176;;.<p> Three bands are available through <i>SkyView</i> <UL> <LI> broad band (0.1-2.4 keV) <LI> hard band (0.5-2.0 keV) <LI> soft band (0.1-0.4 keV) </ul> Data was dowloaded from the <a href="https://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/rosat/survey/rass-3/main/help.html#ftp">MPE FTP site</a>. <p> The intensity maps are created from the exposure maps using the single exposure map available which is appropriate for the broad band images, so the intensities of the hard and soft bands are only approximate. Provenance: Max Planck Institute for Exterrestrial Physics (Garching FRG). This is a service of NASA HEASARC.
363. ROSAT Archival Data
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/rosmaster
- Title:
- ROSAT Archival Data
- Short Name:
- ROSAT
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This database table contains the list of all Röntgen Satellite (ROSAT) X-Ray Telescope (XRT) pointing-mode observations for which data sets are available, i.e., it excludes the ROSAT All-Sky Survey observations. Users should consult the RASSMASTER database table for those XRT observations which were made in scanning mode during the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS) phase (30 July 1990 to 25 January 1991, and 3 August 1991 to 13 August 1991). For each observation listed in this table, parameters such as the focal-plane instrument used, the data processing site, and the target name and coordinates are given, as well as the ROSAT Observation Request (ROR) number, the actual and requested exposure times, the date(s) on which the observation took place, etc. For details about the ROSAT instruments, consult the ROSAT Guest Observer Facility (GOF) website at <a href="https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/rosat/">https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/rosat/</a>. A list of the available online ROSAT documentation can be found at <a href="https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/rosat/rosdocs.html">https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/rosat/rosdocs.html</a>. This table was created by the HEASARC in July 2004 by combining the data from two long-standing HEASARC Browse tables into one master table. It was updated by the HEASARC in March 2022 to add start and end times for the 157 sequence IDs which did not already have start and end times. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/wfcpoint
- Title:
- ROSAT Archival WFC EUV Data
- Short Name:
- ROSAT/WFC
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The WFCPOINT database table contains the list of ROSAT-Wide Field Camera calibration (CAL), performance verification (PV), and AO phase observations. For each observation listed in WFCPOINT, the target name, celestial co-ordinates, sequence number, PI name, and proposal title are given. The date of the observation, date that the data were distributed, and the date that the data will be released to the public are also given. The public release date is nominally 1 year and 14 days after the distribution date; however, because of some processing problems with a few datasets, the actual release date will be delayed from the given date. One duplicate entry was removed from the HEASARC implementation of this catalog in June 2019. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/skyview/hri
- Title:
- ROSAT High Resolution Image Pointed Observations Mosaic: Intensity
- Short Name:
- HRI
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This survey was generated from all available ROSAT HRI observations. Data were mosaicked into 1.1 degree tiles by SkyView. Exposure maps were generated for each HRI observation using the hriexpmap FTOOL. For each tile, all observations that might contribute to that tile were located and added to count and exposure map tiles. Exposures for each observation were calculated using a nearest neighbor interpolation of the center of the tile pixels to the exposure map pixels. Counts were computed by projecting the RA and Decs of each eligible photon into the appropriate tile pixel. Only photons with a PHA > 3 were included in the mosaic and within each observation only counts within the region where the exposure was greater than half the maximum exposure were included. Provenance: Data from GSFC and MPE. <i>SkyView</i> mosaic generated by SkyView.. This is a service of NASA HEASARC.
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/rosatlog
- Title:
- ROSAT Observation Log
- Short Name:
- ROSATLog
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The ROSATLOG database table has been created for the purpose of providing a complete, accurate, and easily accessible record of ROSAT observations. ROSATLOG is made by cross-correlating ROSAT observation records with the short-term timeline and contains information about all pointings executed by the satellite during the performance verification (PV) and AO phases. For each observation, details are given concerning target name and coordinates, pointing start and stop times, PI name and country, ROSAT Observation Request sequence number, and more. ROSATLOG is based on the short-term timelines and observation records generated at the German ROSAT Science Data Center at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) and sent to the ROSAT Guest Observer Facility at Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). Many duplicate entries were removed from the HEASARC implementation of this catalog in June 2019. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/rosprspec
- Title:
- ROSAT Proposal Abstracts
- Short Name:
- ROSPRSPEC
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The ROSPRSPEC table contains the proposal titles and abstracts for all the accepted ROSAT proposals. Please refer to the ROSAO database table for other proposal information. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/skyview/wfcf
- Title:
- ROSAT Wide Field Camera: F1
- Short Name:
- WFCF
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This survey is a mosaic of images taken by the ROSAT Wide Field Camera and comprises of 12,743 seperates fields in each of two filters. Each field covers a region 2.6&#176;; x 2.6&#176;; with a 0.3&#176;; overlap. Currently, this data is not a complete coverage of the sky; regions near the northern ecliptic pole are currently not included. Provenance: University of Leicester. This is a service of NASA HEASARC.
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/skyview/rxte3_20k_flux
- Title:
- RXTE Allsky 3\-20 keV Flux
- Short Name:
- RXTE3_20k_flux
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer was launched at the end of 1995 and up to now (2004) it has been successfully operating for more than 7 years. The mission was primarily designed to study the variability of X-ray sources on time scales from sub-milliseconds to years. The maneuvering capability of the satellite combined with the high photon throughput of its main detector (PCA) and high quality of background prediction (thanks to PCA intrumental group of LHEA, GSFC) has also made it possible to construct maps of the sky in energy band 3-20 keV. During its life time RXTE/PCA has collected a large amount of data from slew observations covering almost the entire sky. <p> We have utilized the slew parts of all RXTE/PCA observations performed from April 15, 1996-July 16, 2002 which amounts in total to approximately 50,000 observations. The exposure time at a given point in the map is typically between 200-500 seconds. The observational period before April 15, 1996 (High Voltage Epochs 1 and 2) was excluded from the analysis because during that time the PCA had significantly different gain and dependence of the effective area on energy. The data reduction was done using standard tools of the LHEASOFT with a set of packages written by M. Revnivtsev (HEAD/IKI, Moscow; MPA, Garching).<p> <p> The survey has several features. It has strongly different exposure times at different points on the sky that lead to strong variability of the statistical noise on images. Because of that the only meaningful representation of images is the map in units of statistical significance. After the detection of a source flux can be determined from the map in the 'flux' units. Map resolution is determined mainly by the slew rate of the RXTE (<0.05-0.1&#176;;/sec) and the time resolution of used data (16 sec, Std2 mode of the PCA). Sources can be detected down to the level of ~6e<sup>-12</sup> erg/s/cm<sup>2</sup>, but at this level the confusion starts to play an important role. Details of the survey are presented in the paper of Revnivtsev et al. (2004). Provenance: High Energy Astrophysics Department, Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia; M PA, Garching, Germany. This is a service of NASA HEASARC.
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/sas2raw
- Title:
- SAS-2 Photon Events Catalog
- Short Name:
- SAS2RAW
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The SAS2RAW database is a log of the 28 SAS-2 observation intervals and contains target names, sky coordinates start times and other information for all 13056 photons detected by SAS-2. The original data came from 2 sources. The photon information was obtained from the Event Encyclopedia, and the exposures were derived from the original "Orbit Attitude Live Time" (OALT) tapes stored at NASA/GSFC. These data sets were combined into FITS format images at HEASARC. The images were formed by making the center pixel of a 512 x 512 pixel image correspond to the RA and DEC given in the event file. Each photon's RA and DEC was converted to a relative pixel in the image. This was done by using Aitoff projections. All the raw data from the original SAS-2 binary data files are now stored in 28 FITS files. These images can be accessed and plotted using XIMAGE and other columns of the FITS file extensions can be plotted with the FTOOL FPLOT. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .