An All-Sky Atlas of Radio/X-ray Associations
Abstract
An all-sky comprehensive catalogue of calculated radio and X-ray associations to optical objects is presented. Included are X-ray sources from XMM-Newton, Chandra and ROSAT catalogues, radio sources from NVSS, FIRST and SUMSS catalogues, and optical data, identifications and redshifts from the APM, USNO-A, SDSS-DR7 and the extant literature. This `Atlas of Radio/X-ray Associations' inherits many techniques from the predecessor Quasars.org (2004) catalogue, but object selection is changed and processing tweaked. Optical objects presented are those which are calculated with >=40% confidence to be associated with radio/X-ray detections, totalling 602 570 objects in all, including 23 681 double radio lobe detections. For each of these optical objects I display the calculated percentage probabilities of its being a QSO, galaxy, star, or erroneous radio/X-ray association, plus any identification from the literature. The catalogue includes 105 568 uninvestigated objects listed as 40% to >99% likely to be a QSO. The catalogue is available at http://quasars.org/arxa.htm.
- Publication:
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
- Pub Date:
- June 2010
- DOI:
- 10.1071/AS09060
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1001.0071
- Bibcode:
- 2010PASA...27..283F
- Keywords:
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- atlases;
- catalogs;
- quasars: general;
- radio continuum: stars;
- x-rays: stars;
- x-rays: general;
- Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
- E-Print:
- 6 pages, accepted by Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia