X-emitting stars identified from the RASS/SDSS Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Agueros M.A.
  2. Anderson S.F.
  3. Covey K.R.
  4. Hawley S.L.
  5. Margon B.,Newsom E.R.
  6. Posselt B.
  7. Silvestri N.M.
  8. Szkody P.
  9. Voges W.
  10. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

The ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS) was the first imaging X-ray survey of the entire sky. Combining the RASS Bright and Faint Source Catalogs (Cat. <IX/10>, 1RXS and <IX/29>) yields an average of about three X-ray sources per square degree. However, while X-ray source counterparts are known to range from distant quasars to nearby M dwarfs, the RASS data alone are often insufficient to determine the nature of an X-ray source. As a result, large-scale follow-up programs are required to construct samples of known X-ray emitters. We use optical data produced by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to identify 709 stellar X-ray emitters cataloged in the RASS and falling within the SDSS Data Release 1 footprint. Most of these are bright stars with coronal X-ray emission unsuitable for SDSS spectroscopy, which is designed for fainter objects (g>15[mag]). Instead, we use SDSS photometry, correlations with the Two Micron All Sky Survey and other catalogs, and spectroscopy from the Apache Point Observatory 3.5m telescope to identify these stellar X-ray counterparts. Our sample of 707 X-ray-emitting F, G, K, and M stars is one of the largest X-ray-selected samples of such stars. We identify 17 new X-ray-emitting DA (hydrogen) WDs, of which three are newly identified WDs. We report on follow-up observations of three candidate cool X-ray-emitting WDs (one DA and two DB (helium) WDs); we have not confirmed X-ray emission from these WDs.

Keywords
  1. astronomical-object-identification
  2. visible-astronomy
  3. sloan-photometry
  4. surveys
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2009ApJS..181..444A
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doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.21810444

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2009-12-25T22:18:37Z
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