ASCAGIS - ASCA GIS Source Catalog (AMSS-I + AMSS-II)

Overview

This is the complete X-ray source catalog of the ASCA Medium Sensitivity Survey, AMSS, or the Gas Imaging Spectrometer (GIS) catalog project. It has been constructed from data for fields covering Galactic latitudes |b| > 10 degrees which were obtained with the GIS instrument onboard the ASCA satellite between 1993 May and 1996 December (part I) and between 1997 January and 2000 May (part II). Part I of this catalog (AMSS-I) utilizes 368 combined fields, and contains 1343 sources (including target sources) with detection significance above 5 sigma in at least one of the 3 survey bands of 0.7-7.0, 2-10, or 0.7-2.0 keV, while AMSS-II uses 306 fields, and contains a total of 1190 sources, using the same criteria. The AMSS-I and AMSS-II catalogs together contain 2533 sources from an area of 278 square degrees and provide a unique database of X-ray sources in the flux range of 10^-13 to 10^-11 erg cm^-2 s^-1 (0.7-10 keV). The published paper contains a summary of the statistical properties of a complete X-ray sample consisting of 1969 serendipitous sources selected from AMSS-I and AMSS-II.

For each source, the ASCA source name, position, 90% error radius, count rates (both observed and as corrected for Galactic absorption) in the 3 energy bands, detection signifances and fluxes in the 3 energy bands, and hardness ratio and associated error are provided.

Catalog Bibcodes

2005ApJS..161..185U
2001ApJS..133....1U

References

The ASCA Medium Sensitivity Survey (the GIS Catalog Project): Source Catalog.
    Ueda Y., Ishisaki Y., Takahashi T., Makishima K., Ohashi T.
   <Astrophys. J. Suppl. Ser. 133, 1 (2001)>
   =2001ApJS..133....1U

The ASCA Medium Sensitivity Survey (the GIS Catalog Project): Source Catalog II.
    Ueda Y., Ishisaki Y., Takahashi T., Makishima K., Ohashi T.
   <Astrophys. J. Suppl. Ser. 161, 185 (2005)>
   =2005ApJS..161..185U

Provenance

This version of the Browse ASCAGIS table containing the combined AMSS-I and AMSS-II source lists was created by the HEASARC in February 2006 based on the CDS version of the AMSS-I source list (CDS catalog J/ApJS/133/1) and the electronic ApJS version of the AMSS-II source list.

Parameters

Name
The ASCA source name constructed in the recommended IAU fashion, using the prefix '1AXG (1st ASCA X-Ray GIS source) and the J2000 equatorial coordinates.

RA
The Right Ascension of the source. This was provided in J2000 degrees with a precision of 0.0001 degrees in the original tables.

Dec
The Declination of the source. This was provided in J2000 degrees with a precision of 0.0001 degrees in the original tables.

LII
The Galactic Longitude of the source.

BII
The Galactic Latitude of the source.

Error_Radius
The positional error radius (90% confidence), including both the statistical and systematic errors, in arcminutes. See Section 3.3 of Paper I for more details.

SNR_Total
The detection significance, i.e., number of sigma, in the 0.7-7 keV band.

SNR_Hard
The detection significance, i.e., number of sigma, in the 2-10 keV band.

SNR_Soft
The detection significance, i.e., number of sigma, in the 0.7-2 keV band.

Count_Rate_Total
The vignetting-corrected "observed" count rate in the 0.7-7 keV band at the reference position in the X-Ray Telescope coordinate (8.5' offset) integrated within a radius of 5.9', in counts per second. This has not been corrected for Galactic absorption.

Count_Rate_Hard
The vignetting-corrected "observed" count rate in the 2-10 keV band, at the reference position in the X-Ray Telescope coordinate (8.5' offset) integrated within a radius of 5.9', in counts per second. This has not been corrected for Galactic absorption.

Count_Rate_Soft
The vignetting-corrected "observed" count rate in the 0.7-2.0 keV band, at the reference position in the X-Ray Telescope coordinate (8.5' offset) integrated within a radius of 5.9', in counts per second. This has not been corrected for Galactic absorption.

Corr_Count_Rate_Total
The 0.7-7 keV count rate, in counts per second, corrected for Galactic interstellar absorption using the Dickey and Lockman (1990, ARA&A, 28, 215) estimate.

Corr_Count_Rate_Hard
The 2-10 keV count rate, in counts per second, corrected for Galactic interstellar absorption using the Dickey and Lockman (1990, ARA&A, 28, 215) estimate.

Corr_Count_Rate_Soft
The 0.7-2 keV count rate, in counts per second, corrected for Galactic interstellar absorption using the Dickey and Lockman (1990, ARA&A, 28, 215) estimate.

Flux_Total
The 0.7-7 keV flux, in cgs units of erg/s/cm², corrected for Galactic interstellar absorption. This flux has been obtained using the observed count rate in the same band and assuming a power-law with Galactic absorption, with the best-fit photon index derived from the observed hardness ratio HR1. See Section 2.4 of Paper I for more details.

Flux_Hard
The 2-10 keV flux, in cgs units of erg/s/cm², corrected for Galactic interstellar absorption. This flux has been obtained using the observed count rate in the same band and assuming a power-law with Galactic absorption, with the best-fit photon index derived from the observed hardness ratio HR1. See Section 2.4 of Paper I for more details.

Flux_Soft
The 0.7-2 keV flux, in cgs units of erg/s/cm², corrected for Galactic interstellar absorption. This flux has been obtained using the observed count rate in the same band and assuming a power-law with Galactic absorption, with the best-fit photon index derived from the observed hardness ratio HR1. See Section 2.4 of Paper I for more details.

HR1
The hardness ratio, HR1, defined as HR1 = (H-S)/(H+S), where H is corr_count_rate_hard (the 2-10 keV count rate corrected for Galactic interstellar absorption) and S is corr_count_rate_soft (the 0.7-2 keV flux, corrected for Galactic interstellar absorption).

HR1_Error
The 1-sigma statistical error in the hardness ratio, HR1.

Field_ID
The identification of the field in which the source was detected. The information on these fields is given in Table 1 of AMSS-I for fields starting with 'I-' and Table 1 of AMSS-II for fields starting with 'II-'.

Target_Flag
This parameter is a flag which to set to 'Y' to indicate that the source was the target of the ASCA observation.

Catalog_Part
This parameter is a flag which indicates from which part of the AMSS Catalog the entry originates ('I' for AMSS-I, 'II' for AMSS-II).

Duplicate_Source
This parameter is a flag which is set to 'Y' to indicate that the entry is likely a duplicate of another AMSS source, else it is set to 'N'. Most (81/86) of the duplicates are AMSS-I sources that were independently redetected in AMSS-II, with the remainder being sources that were duplicated within AMSS-I. To identify duplicates, the authors looked for pairs if sources whose positions coincided within twice the combined 90% positional errors. 85 of the 86 duplicates are listed in Table 4 of Paper II, while the remaining duplicate pair (the two sources with the identical name 1AXG J053056+1331 in AMSS-I) was noticed by the HEASARC while compiling the Browse version of this table.

Contact Person

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Last Modified: Monday, 16-Sep-2024 17:24:23 EDT