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J/MNRAS/274/1194    Optical Identifications of ROSAT EUV Sources (Mason+ 1995)
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Optical identification of EUV sources from the ROSAT Wide Field
Camera all-sky survey.
     Mason K.O., Hassall B.J.M., Bromage G.E., Buckley D.A.H., Naylor T.,
     O'Donoghue D., Watson M.G., Bertram D., Branduardi-Raymont G.,
     Charles P.A., Cooke B., Elliott K.H., Hawkins M.R.S., Hodgkin S.T.,
     Jewell S.J., Jomaron C.M., Sekiguchi K., Kellett B.J., Lawrence A.,
     McHardy I., Mittaz J.P.D., Pike C.D., Ponman T.J., Schmitt J.,
     Voges W., Wargau W., Wonnacott D.
    <Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 274, 1194 (1995)>
    =1995MNRAS.274.1194M        (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
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ADC_Keywords: X-ray sources
Keywords: catalogues - star: activity - binaries: general -
          novae, cataclysmic variables - white dwarfs - galaxies: active
Mission_Name: ROSAT

Description:
    Optical identifications for 195 EUV sources located in the ROSAT Wide
    Field Camera all-Sky survey are presented. We list 69 previous unknown
    EUV-emitting white dwarfs, 114 active stars, 7 new magnetic
    cataclysmic variables and 5 active galaxies. Several of the white
    dwarfs have resolved M-type companions, while five are unresolved
    white dwarf/M-star pairs. Finding charts are given for the optical
    counterparts.

File Summary:
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 FileName    Lrecl    Records    Explanations
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ReadMe          80          .    This file
appena          80        165    Notes on identified sources
appenb          80         86    Notes on failed identifications
table1         165        209    WFC optical identification programme ID summary
table1.tex     110       1013    TeX version of table1
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See also:
    J/MNRAS/260/77   : ROSAT Wide Field Camera EUV Bright Sources (Pounds+ 1993)
    J/MNRAS/274/1165 : The 2RE Source Catalogue (Pye+ 1995)

Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1
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   Bytes Format Units      Label  Explanations
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   1- 18  A18   ---        Name   Source name
      20  A1    ---      l_S1     Limit flag on S1
  21- 26  F6.1 10-3ct/s    S1     ? WFC survey filter S1 (60-140A) counts
      28  A1    ---      l_S2     Limit flag on S2
  29- 34  F6.1 10-3ct/s    S2     ? WFC survey filter S2 (110-200A) counts
  36- 40  F5.1  ---        NH     ? Hydrogen column density
  42- 43  I2    h          RAh    Right ascension J2000
  45- 46  I2    min        RAm    Right ascension J2000
  48- 52  F5.2  s          RAs    Right ascension J2000
      55  A1    ---        DE-    Declination sign
  56- 57  I2    deg        DEd    Declination J2000
  59- 60  I2    arcmin     DEm    Declination J2000
  62- 65  F4.1  arcsec     DEs    Declination J2000
      66  A1    ---      n_DE     [g:] A 'g' indicates that the data are from
                                   the Hubble Space Telescope Guide Star Catalog
  69- 73  F5.2  mag        Vmag   ? V magnitude of the optical counterpart
      74  A1    ---      n_Vmag2  [-] '-' when interval
  75- 76  I2    mag        Vmag2  ? Upper limit of Vmag when n_Vmag2='-'
      77  A1    ---      u_Vmag   Uncertainty flag on Vmag
  78- 82  A5    ---      n_Vmag   Note on Vmag (1)
  85- 88  F4.1  mag        B-V    ? B-V color index of the optical counterpart
  90- 97  A8    ---        SpType Spectral type of the optical counterpart
     100  A1    ---      l_alpha  Limit flag on alpha
 101-105  F5.2  ---        alpha  ? Source apparent EUV to optical flux ratio
 108-111  A4    ---        Class  Identification class (2)
 113-118  F6.2  0.1nm      EWCa   ? Equivalent width of the Ca H 3933A
                                    chromospheric emission line (for stars only)
     119  A1    ---      n_EWCa   [u-] Note on EWCa (3)
     120  A1    ---        ---    [/] Separator
 121-124  F4.1  0.1nm      EWHa   ? Equivalent width of the Halpha line
                                    (for stars only)
     125  A1    ---      n_EWHa   [?u-] Note on EWHa (3)
 126-128  F3.1 10+3km/s    FWHb   ? Full width at half maximum of the Hbeta line
     129  A1    ---        ---    [/] Separator
 130-133  F4.1  0.1nm      EWHb   ? Equivalent width of the Hbeta line
     134  A1    ---      u_EWHb   Uncertainty flag on EWHb
     136  A1    ---        X      [y] y: there is an X-ray telescope position
                                    available for the source
     137  A1    ---        Note   [+] +: additional information in appena file
 139-168  A30   ---        Com    Comments
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Note (1): P: CCD or photoelectric photometry (Buckley, private communication;
              Schwartz et al. 1995)
          G: The HST Guide Star Catalog (v.1.1)
          cat: catalogued magnitudes (see Pye et al., 1995)
          E: POSS E digitized plate material
          J: SERC J digitized plate material
          S: uncorrected slit magnitudes taken from calibrated spectra
          A 'c' appended to the J and E codes indicates that accurate external
             zero-points were not been obtained by comparing the magnitudes of
             stars within 3arcmin of the EUV source that appear in the HST Guide
             Star Catalog (v.1.1) with the uncorrected values measured for those
             stars from the Schmidt-telescope Sky Survey Plates. If there is
             more than one counterpart, there are separate entries for each
             star when these are available.
Note (2): Star: all active stars
          WD: white dwarf
          CV: cataclysmic variable
          AGN: active galaxy
Note (3): u: the line was covered but no measurable emission component was
              detected. Significant chromospheric emission may still be present,
              particularly when this refers to Halpha (e.g. the Halpha
              photospheric absorption line may be 'filled-in' by emission)
          -: the line was not covered in the spectra
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Courtesy: K.O Mason <kom@mssl.ucl.ac.uk>

Historical note: In table1, 2RE J033711+255926 was identified to HD 224030
     instead of HD 22403. Correction made on 13-Feb-1998.

References:
   Pye J.P. et al.,     =1995MNRAS.274.1165P
   Schwartz R.D. et al. =1995PASP..107..667S
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(End)                                          Patricia Bauer [CDS]  23-Aug-1996

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