Rontgen Satellite Archive (ROSAT)

The Rontgen Satellite Archive is an implementation of the ROSAT All-Sky Survey Bright Source Catalogue (RASS-BSC, revision 1RXS) and the ROSAT All-Sky Survey Faint Source Catalogue (RASS-FSC, revision 1RXS). The RASS-BSC is derived from the all-sky survey performed during the first half year of the ROSAT mission in 1990/91. 18,811 sources are catalogued, with a limiting ROSAT PSPC countrate of 0.05 cts/s in the 0.1-2.4 keV energy band. The sources have a detection likelihood of at least 15 and contain at least 15 source photons. At a brightness limit of 0.1 cts/s (8,547 sources) the catalogue represents a sky coverage of 92%. The typical positional accuracy is 30 arcsec. The RASS-FSC is derived from the all-sky survey performed during the ROSAT mission in the energy band 0.1- 2.4 keV. 105,924 sources are catalogued and represent the faint extension to the RASS bright source catalogue. The sources have a detection likelihood of at least 7 and contain at least 6 source photons. (The likelihood of source detection is defined as L =-ln (1-P) , with P = probability of source detection).

rosat_bsc table: cone search of Bright Source Catalog

rosat_fsc table: cone search of Faint Source Catalog

Access to two applications: general ADQL query, and asynchronous cone-search where relevant/enabled.

Identifier
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/wfau.roe.ac.uk/rosat-dsa
Related Identifier http://www.mpe.mpg.de/xray/wave/rosat/index.php?lang=en
Metadata Access http://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/pmh/pubreg.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_b2find&identifier=ivo://wfau.roe.ac.uk/rosat-dsa
Provenance
Creator BMBF/DLR and MPG
Publisher WFAU, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh
Publication Year 2010
OpenAccess true
Contact Mark Holliman <msh(at)roe.ac.uk>
Representation
Resource Type Other; AstroObjects
Version revision 1RXS
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy