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- MPE: http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/cgi-bin/rosat/rosat-survey/)
- MPE anonymous ftp: ftp://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/rosat/catalogues/rass-bsc
- GSFC Mirror site: http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/rosat/survey
- W3Browse Select RASSBSC from the listed catalogs.
- ROSAT Bright Source HEASARC Browse table
(cf. IAU Circular No. 6420, June 19, 1996). RASSBSC (ROSAT ALL-SKY-SURVEY BRIGHT-SOURCE-CATALOGUE)
This catalogue is derived from the all-sky survey performed during the first half year of the ROSAT mission in 1990-1991; 18,811 sources are catalogued, with a limiting ROSAT PSPC countrate of 0.05 cts/s in the energy band 0.1- 2.4 keV. The sources have a detection likelihood of at least 15 and contain at least 15 source photons. At a brightness limit of 0.1 cts/s (8547 sources) the catalogue represents a sky coverage of 92 percent. For each source are provided the ROSAT name, the position in equatorial coordinates, the positional error, the source countrate and error, the background countrate, exposure time, hardness-ratios HR1 and HR2 and errors, extent and likelihood of extent, and likelihood of detection. For 94 percent of the sources, visual inspection confirmed the results of the standard processing with respect to existence and position; the remaining 6 percent were reanalyzed and appropriately flagged. Broadband images are available for a subset of the flagged sources.
A list containing correlations with other catalogues and identifications will follow soon.
Questions or comments may be directed to survey@rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de.
FIRST MAPS OF THE SOFT X-RAY DIFFUSE BACKGROUND (SXRB) FROM THE
ROSAT XRT/PSPC ALL-SKY SURVEY AVAILABLE
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- MPE: http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/rosat/survey/sxrb/12/ass.html
- Anonymous ftp ftp://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de, directory archive/survey/sxrb.
- The GSFC Mirror site: http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/rosat/survey/sxrb
A detailed description of the data and maps has appeared in: Snowden et al., Ap.J. 454, 643 (1995). The maps cover about 98 percent of the sky in the bands 0.25, 0.75, and 1.5 keV, with about 2-degree angular resolution and high sensitivity for low-surface-brightness, extended features. The effects of non-x-ray contamination and x- rays of solar-system origin have been eliminated to the greatest possible extent, but discrete x-ray sources have not been removed. The much-improved angular resolution, statistical precision, and completeness of coverage of these maps reveal considerable structure over the entire energy range 0.1-2.0 keV that was not observed previously. The data compare well with previous all-sky surveys in terms of absolute normalization and zero point. For each energy band, an intensity map, as well as an exposure map, is available in FITS format. All maps were constructed using a Hammer-Aitoff equal-area projection in zero-centered galactic coordinates with longitude increasing to the left.
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