Table information for 'rosat.photons'

General

Table Description: A table of x-ray photons detected by ROSAT

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Resource Description:

ROSAT was an orbiting x-ray observatory active in the 1990s. We provide a table of all photons observed during ROSAT's all-sky survey (RASS) as well as images of both survey and pointed observations.

For ROSAT data products, see http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/cgi-bin/rosat/rosat-survey

For a list of all services and tables belonging to this table's resource, see Information on resource 'ROSAT results'

Citing this table

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To cite the table as such, we suggest the following BibTeX entry:

@MISC{vo:rosat_photons,
  year=2015,
  title={{ROSAT} results},
  author={Voges, W. and Aschenbach, B. and Boller, Th. and Brauninger, H. and Briel, U. and Burkert, W. and Dennerl, K. and Englhauser, J. and Gruber, R. and Haberl, F. and Hartner, G. and Hasinger, G. and Pfeffermann, E. and Pietsch, W. and Predehl, P. and Schmitt, J. and Trumper, J. and Zimmermann, U.},
  url={https://dc.zah.uni-heidelberg.de/tableinfo/rosat.photons},
  howpublished={{VO} resource provided by the {GAVO} Data Center}
}

Columns

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NameTable Head DescriptionUnitUCD
raj2000 RA Right Ascension, equinox 2000.0 deg pos.eq.ra;meta.main
dej2000 DE Declination, equinox 2000.0 deg pos.eq.dec;meta.main
detection_time Detection Time Time the photon was detected, in Julian years. yr time.start
energy_cor Energy Energy of incoming photon (corrected) [keV] keV phys.energy;em.X-ray
position_error Position error Total positional error, 1{sigma} arcsec arcsec stat.error;pos.eq
glong Galactic lon Galactic longitude deg pos.galactic.lon
glat Galactic lat Galactic latitude deg pos.galactic.lat
pulseht_channel Pulse height ch. Channel of the pulse height. This is a measure for the energy of the incoming photon, where one channel corresponds to about 10 eV; a pulse height channel of 127 thus indicates an incoming photon of about 1.3 keV. N/A N/A
exposure_time Exp. time ROSAT cluster survey exposure time s time.duration;obs.exposure
field_id Field id RASS field id N/A meta.id;obs.field
ix x X pixel coordinate pixel pos.cartesian.x;instr.det
iy y Y pixel coordinate pixel pos.cartesian.y;instr.det
id ID Photon identifier (a combination of observation date and detector coordinates) N/A meta.id;meta.main

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