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J/A+A/312/818       NGC 2516 X-ray sources (Dachs+, 1996)
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ROSAT survey of stellar X-ray sources in the young open cluster NGC 2516
      Dachs J., Hummel W.
     <Astron. Astrophys. 312, 818 (1996)>
     =1996A&A...312..818D      (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
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ADC_Keywords: X-ray sources ; Clusters, open
Keywords: X-rays: stars - stars: chemically peculiar - stars: emission-line -
          open clusters: NGC 2516 - stars: coronae
Mission_Name: ROSAT

Description:
    The ROSAT PSPC detector was used to obtain a deep pointing with its
    center on the young open cluster NGC 2516 and total integration time
    of 9284 sec. Altogether 64 X-ray sources were detected showing strong
    concentration towards the optical cluster centre. This suggests that
    most of the sources are actually associated with NGC 2516. 42 of these
    sources could be identified with optical stars in the field of the
    cluster; after correction for a mean offset between optical and
    nominal ROSAT positions of about 13", optical star and X-ray source
    positions are found to agree, on the average, within about 9", while
    maximum observed positional differences amount to 27". X-ray sources
    identified with optical cluster stars include HR 3147 (=HD 66194;
    B2.5IVe), the visually brightest B star in the cluster, three close
    visual late B-type binaries (h 4027 A,B, h 4031 A,B, and I 1104 A,B)
    with projected separations ranging between about 4x10^16^cm and
    6x10^16^cm, as well as several (six) chemically peculiar Bp/Ap(Si) and
    Ap(SrCrEu) stars.

File Summary:
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  FileName      Lrecl  Records   Explanations
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ReadMe             80        .   This file
table2             69       64   X-ray sources detected in NGC 2516
table2.tex        107      158   LaTeX version of table2
table3             89       46   Stars in the field of NGC 2516 identified with
                                  ROSAT X-ray sources
table3.tex        121      151   LaTeX version of table3
table6            100       45   Properties of X-ray sources identified with
                                  optical stars of known (or assumed) distance
table6.tex        123      138   LaTeX version of table6
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2
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   Bytes Format Units   Label    Explanations
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   1-  2  I2    ---     No       [1/64] Running number (increasing with {alpha})
   4-  5  I2    ---     Seq      ? X-ray source number, as detected with EXSAS
                                   reduction package (increasing with -{delta})
       6  A1    ---   m_Seq      Multiplicity index on Seq
   8-  9  I2    h       RAh      Right ascension (2000.0) (1)
  11- 12  I2    min     RAm      Right ascension (2000.0) (1)
  14- 18  F5.2  s       RAs      Right ascension (2000.0) (1)
      20  A1    ---     DE-      Declination sign
  21- 22  I2    deg     DEd      Declination (2000.0) (1)
  24- 25  I2    arcmin  DEm      Declination (2000.0) (1)
  27- 30  F4.1  arcsec  DEs      Declination (2000.0) (1)
  32- 35  F4.1  arcsec  Dr       90% confidence source radius
      36  A1    ---   u_Dr       Undertainty flag on Dr
  38- 42  F5.1  ct/s    CtRate   Count rate corrected for vignetting and for
                                  the life-time factor (=0.978)
  44- 46  F3.1  ct/s  e_CtRate   rms uncertainty on Count rate
  48- 52  F5.2  ---     HR1      Hardness ratio HR1
      53  A1    ---   u_HR1      Uncertainty flag on HR1
  54- 57  F4.2  ---   e_HR1      ? rms uncertainty on HR1
  59- 63  F5.2  ---     HR2      Hardness ration HR2
      64  A1    ---   u_HR2      Uncertainty flag on HR2
  66- 69  F4.2  ---   e_HR2      ? rms uncertainty on HR2
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Note (1): The coordinates are corrected for pointing offset of (+1.6s, 4.7")
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table3
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   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations
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   2-  3  I2    ---     No     ? Running number from table2
       4  A1    ---   m_No     [)] A ')' indicates the second component of a
                                    binary
   6- 15  A10   ---     Name   Identification HD, CPD or CD
      18  A1    ---   n_Name   [bc] b = HR 3138; c = HR 3147
  21- 23  I3    ---     DK     ? Running number in the photometric study of
                                  Dachs and Kabus (1989), hereafter DK
      24  A1    ---   m_DK     Multiplicity index on DK
  26- 35  A10   ---     Sp     Spectral type
      37  A1    ---   n_Sp     [g] A 'g' indicates new spectral type
  40- 41  I2    h       RAh    Right ascension 2000.0 (optical source)
  43- 44  I2    min     RAm    Right ascension 2000.0 (optical source)
  46- 50  F5.2  s       RAs    Right ascension 2000.0 (optical source)
      52  A1    ---   n_RA     [def]  (1)
      54  A1    ---     DE-    Declination sign
  55- 56  I2    deg     DEd    Declination 2000.0 (optical source)
  58- 59  I2    arcmin  DEm    Declination 2000.0 (optical source)
  61- 64  F4.1  arcsec  DEs    Declination 2000.0 (optical source)
      66  A1    ---   n_DE     [def] (1)
  68- 72  F5.2  s       DRA    Position difference ROSAT minus optical in RA (2)
      73  A1    ---   n_DRA    [d] (1)
  75- 80  F6.2  arcsec  DDE    Position difference ROSAT minus optical in DE (2)
      81  A1    ---   n_DDE    [d] (1)
  83- 86  F4.1  arcsec  Dr     Angular distance between optical and X-ray
                                positions
  88- 89  A2    ---     Memb   Cluster membership of star,
                                M=member, NM=non-member
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Note (1): d) corrected for proper motion between 1992 and 2000
          e) PPM position
          f) CPC position
Note (2): Position difference corrected for pointing offset (+1.6s, -4.7")
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table6
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   Bytes Format Units      Label     Explanations
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   3-  4  I2    ---         No       Running number of table2
       5  A1    ---       m_No       [)] A ')' indicates the second component
                                      of a binary
   7- 18  A12   ---         Name     Identification from table3 HD, CPD, CD or
                                      DK
  20- 30  A11   ---         Sp       Spectral type (from DK or this paper)
  32- 36  F5.2  mag         Vmag     V magnitude (from DK)
      37  A1    ---       u_Vmag     Uncertainty flag on Vmag
  38- 42  F5.2  mag         B-V      ? B-V color index (from DK)
  45- 47  I3    pc          d        Adopted distance
      48  A1    ---       u_d        Uncertainty flag on distance
  50- 54  F5.2  mag         Mv       Inferred absolute visual magnitude
      55  A1    ---       u_Mv       Uncertainty flag on Mv
  57- 61  F5.2  solLum      Lbol     Bolometric luminosity
      62  A1    ---       u_Lbol     Uncertainty flag on Lbol
  64- 68  F5.1 10-14mW/m2   Fx       ? ROSAT X-ray flux (10^-14^erg/cm^2^/s) (1)
      69  A1    ---       u_Fx       Uncertainty flag on Fx
  72- 74  F3.1 10-14mW/m2 e_Fx       ? rms uncertainty on Fx
  77- 84  E8.2  10-7W       Lx       ? X-ray luminosity (0.16-2.5keV)
  86- 93  E8.2  10-7W     e_Lx       ? Rms uncertainty on Lx
      94  A1    ---       u_Lx       Uncertainty flag on Lx
  96- 99  F4.2  ---    -log(Lx/Lbol) ? -log(X-ray/bolometric luminosities)
     100  A1    ---  u_-log(Lx/Lbol) Uncertainty flag on -log(Lx/Lbol)
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Note (1): Adopted flux conversion factor C_F_ for NGC 2516 cluster stars showing
           HR1~+1.0: C_F_~1.4x10^-11^erg/cm^2^/s (counts/s)^-1^
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Courtesy:  Wolfgang Hummel <hummel@usm.uni-muenchen.de>

References:
   Dachs J. and Kabus H., 1989, A&AS 78, 25    =1989A&AS...78...25D
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(End)                                         Patricia Bauer [CDS]   16-Apr-1996

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