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J/A+AS/143/391      ROSAT HRI catalogue of LMC X-ray sources    (Sasaki+, 2000)
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ROSAT HRI catalogue of X-ray sources in the LMC region
    Sasaki M., Haberl F., Pietsch W.
   <Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 143, 391 (2000)>
   =2000A&AS..143..391S
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ADC_Keywords: X-ray sources ; Magellanic Clouds
Keywords: catalogues - galaxies: Magellanic Clouds - galaxies: stellar content -
          X-rays: galaxies - X-rays: stars

Description:
    The ROSAT HRI LMC source catalogue is based on all 543 pointed
    observations of the ROSAT HRI between 1990 and 1998 with exposure
    times higher than 50 sec. The observations covered a 10 deg x 10 deg
    field including the LMC. The catalogue contains 397 X-ray sources.
    Sources showing flux variability in ROSAT HRI and PSPC are listed in
    Table 1. Table 2 contains HRI sources which were identified with known
    objects in other catalogues and literature. Table 3 is a list of new
    classifications. The whole source catalogue from HRI observations is
    given in Table 4.

File Summary:
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  FileName   Lrecl  Records   Explanations
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ReadMe          80        .   This file
table1.dat      97       26   Variable sources
table2.dat     146       97   Identified sources
table3.dat     132       21   Classified sources
table4.dat     156      397   ROSAT HRI LMC catalogue
refs.dat       209       18   References
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See also:
              IX/28 : ROSAT HRI Pointed Observations (1RXH) (ROSAT Team, 1999)
     J/A+AS/139/277 : LMC X-ray sources ROSAT PSPC catalogue (Haberl+, 1999)

Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1.dat
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   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations
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   1-  3 I3     ---     HRI       HRI source number
   5- 10 E6.1   ct/s    Hrate     HRI count rate
  12- 17 E6.1   ct/s    Prate     ? PSPC count rate
  19- 25 F7.1   ---     Fquo      Fmax/Fmin
  27- 33 F7.1   ---     redChi    reduced Chi square
  35- 36 I2     ---     dof       degrees of freedom
  38- 41 I4     ---     PNo       ? PSPC source number, see Note (G1)
  43- 97 A55    ---     Remarks   Source ID, see Note (1)
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Note (1): < > for new classification.
          References between [] are defined in refs.dat file
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2.dat
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   Bytes Format Units     Label     Explanations
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   1-  3 I3     ---       HRI       HRI source number
   5-  6 I2     h         RAh       Right ascension J2000
   8-  9 I2     min       RAm       Right ascension J2000
  11- 14 F4.1   s         RAs       Right ascension J2000
      16 A1     ---       DE-       Declination sign J2000
  17- 18 I2     deg       DEd       Declination J2000
  20- 21 I2     arcmin    DEm       Declination J2000
  23- 24 I2     arcsec    DEs       Declination J2000
  26- 29 F4.1   arcsec    PosErr    Positional error
  31- 37 F7.1   ---       MLexi     Existence Likelihood
  39- 46 E8.2   ct/s      Rate      Count rate
  48- 55 E8.2   ct/s    e_Rate      Count rate error
  57- 60 F4.1   arcsec    Extent    Source extent
  62- 64 F3.1   arcsec  e_Extent    Extent error
  66- 71 F6.1   ---       MLext     Extent Likelihood
  73- 76 I4     ---       PNo       ? PSPC source number, see Note (G1)
  78- 82 F5.2   ---       PHR1      ? Hardness ratio 1 of the PSPC source
  84- 87 F4.2   ---     e_PHR1      ? Error of hardness ratio 1
      88 A1     ---     n_PHR1      [*] * when no uncertainty for PHR1 value
  90- 94 F5.2   ---       PHR2      ? Hardness ratio 2 of the PSPC source
  96- 99 F4.2   ---     e_PHR2      ? Error of hardness ratio 2
     100 A1     ---     n_PHR2      [*] * when no uncertainty for PHR2 value
 102-145 A44    ---       Remarks   Source classification, see Note (1)
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Note (1): fg = foreground
     Candidates from literature are marked with '?' behind the source class
     References between [] are defined in refs.dat file
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table3.dat
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   Bytes Format Units     Label         Explanations
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   1-  3 I3     ---       HRI           HRI source number
   5-  6 I2     h         RAh           Right ascension J2000
   8-  9 I2     min       RAm           Right ascension J2000
  11- 14 F4.1   s         RAs           Right ascension J2000
      16 A1     ---       DE-           Declination sign J2000
  17- 18 I2     deg       DEd           Declination J2000
  20- 21 I2     arcmin    DEm           Declination J2000
  23- 24 I2     arcsec    DEs           Declination J2000
  26- 29 F4.1   arcsec    PosErr        Positional error
  31- 36 F6.1   ---       MLexi         Existence Likelihood
  38- 45 E8.2   ct/s      Rate          Count rate
  47- 54 E8.2   ct/s    e_Rate          Count rate error
  56- 59 F4.1   arcsec    Extent        Source extent
  61- 64 F4.1   arcsec  e_Extent        Extent error
  66- 70 F5.1   ---       MLext         Extent Likelihood
  72- 76 F5.2   ---       log(Fx/Fopt)  log(Fx/Fopt)
  78- 81 I4     ---       PNo           ? PSPC source number, see Note (G1)
  83- 86 F4.2   ---       PHR1          ? Hardness ratio 1 of the PSPC source
  88- 91 F4.2   ---     e_PHR1          ? Error of hardness ratio 1
  93- 96 F4.2   ---       PHR2          ? Hardness ratio 2 of the PSPC source
  98-101 F4.2   ---     e_PHR2          ? Error of hardness ratio 2
 103-132 A30    ---       Remarks       Source classification (1)
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Note (1): References between [] are defined in refs.dat file
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table4.dat
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   Bytes Format Units     Label     Explanations
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   1-  3 I3     ---       HRI       HRI source number
   5-  6 I2     h         RAh       Right ascension J2000
   8-  9 I2     min       RAm       Right ascension J2000
  11- 14 F4.1   s         RAs       Right ascension J2000
      16 A1     ---       DE-       Declination sign J2000
  17- 18 I2     deg       DEd       Declination J2000
  20- 21 I2     arcmin    DEm       Declination J2000
  23- 24 I2     arcsec    DEs       Declination J2000
  26- 29 F4.1   arcsec    PosErr    Positional error
  31- 37 F7.1   ---       MLexi     Existence Likelihood
  39- 46 E8.2   ct/s      Rate      Count rate
  48- 55 E8.2   ct/s    e_Rate      Count rate error
  57- 60 F4.1   arcsec    Extent    Source extent
  62- 65 F4.1   arcsec  e_Extent    Extent error
  67- 72 F6.1   ---       MLext     Extent Likelihood
      74 A1     ---       Uplim     see Note (1)
  75- 82 E8.2   ct/s      PRate     ? PSPC count rate, see Note (1)
  84- 87 I4     ---       PNo       ? PSPC source number, see Note (G1)
  89- 93 F5.2   ---       PHR1      ? Hardness ratio 1 of the PSPC source
  95- 98 F4.2   ---     e_PHR1      ? Error of hardness ratio 1
      99 A1     ---     n_PHR1      [*] * when no uncertainty for PHR1 value
 101-105 F5.2   ---       PHR2      ? Hardness ratio 2 of the PSPC source
 107-110 F4.2   ---     e_PHR2      ? Error of hardness ratio 2
     111 A1     ---     n_PHR2      [*] * when no uncertainty for PHR2 value
 113-182 A70    ---       Remarks   Source classification, see Note (2)
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Note (1): For sources which are listed in the ROSAT PSPC catalogue
    (Haberl & Pietsch, 1999, Cat. <J/A+AS/139/277>) PSPC count rates are
    taken from the catalogue. Otherwise PSPC count rate is the 2 sigma
    upper limit from maximum likelihood algorithm ('<' in column Uplim).
Note (2): fg: foreground
    Candidates from literature are marked with '?' behind the source class
    New classifications are put in < >
    References between [] are defined in refs.dat file
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: refs.dat
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   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations
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   1-  8  A8    ---     Ref       Reference code
  10- 28  A19   ---     BibCode   BibCode
  30- 83  A54   ---     Aut       Author names
  84-209  A126  ---     Com       Comments
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Global notes:
Note (G1): PSPC source number from the ROSAT PSPC catalogue
           (Haberl & Pietsch, 1999, Cat. <J/A+AS/139/277>)

Acknowledgements: Manami Sasaki <manami@xray.mpe.mpg.de>
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(End)                                        Patricia Bauer [CDS]    03-May-2000

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