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Ultraluminous X-ray sources in nearby galaxies (Liu+, 2005)

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J/ApJS/157/59      Ultraluminous X-ray sources in nearby galaxies   (Liu+, 2005)
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Ultraluminous X-ray sources in nearby galaxies from ROSAT High Resolution Imager
observations.
I. Data analysis.
    Liu J.-F., Bregman J.N.
   <Astrophys. J. Suppl. Ser., 157, 59-125 (2005)>
   =2005ApJS..157...59L
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ADC_Keywords: X-ray sources ; Binaries, X-ray ; Galaxies, nearby

Keywords: catalogs - galaxies: general - X-rays: binaries - X-rays: galaxies


Abstract:
    X-ray observations have revealed in other galaxies a class of
    extranuclear X-ray point sources with X-ray luminosities of
    1039-1041ergs/s, exceeding the Eddington luminosity for stellar
    mass X-ray binaries. These ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) may be
    powered by intermediate-mass black holes of a few thousand MSun or
    stellar mass black holes with special radiation processes. In this
    paper, we present a survey of ULXs in 313 nearby galaxies with D25>1
    within 40Mpc with 467 ROSAT High Resolution Imager (HRI) archival
    observations. The HRI observations are reduced with uniform
    procedures, refined by simulations that help define the point source
    detection algorithm employed in this survey. A sample of 562
    extragalactic X-ray point sources with LX=1038-1043ergs/s is
    extracted from 173 survey galaxies, including 106 ULX candidates
    within the D25 isophotes of 63 galaxies and 110 ULX candidates
    between 1D25 and 2D25 of 64 galaxies, from which a clean sample of
    109 ULXs is constructed to minimize the contamination from foreground
    or background objects.

File Summary:

FileName Lrecl Records Explanations
× 80 . This file × ReadMe 80 . This file × table1.dat 98 312 Properties of surveyed galaxies × table2.dat 101 562 X-ray sources in surveyed galaxies × table3.dat 110 604 Individual observations for ULX candidates
See also: IX/28 : ROSAT HRI Pointed Observations (1RXH) (ROSAT Team, 2000) VII/155 : RC3 (de Vaucouleurs+ 1991) J/ApJS/154/519 : Properties of ultraluminous X-ray candidates (Swartz+, 2004) J/A+A/429/1125 : Catalog of Ultraluminous X-ray sources (Liu+, 2005) Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1.dat
Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
1- 9 A9 --- Galaxy Galaxy name 11- 16 F6.2 deg GLON Galactic longitude of the galaxy 18- 23 F6.2 deg GLAT Galactic latitude of the galaxy 25- 28 F4.1 arcmin D25 Major axis of the D25 isophotal ellipsis 30- 33 F4.1 arcmin d25 Minor axis of the D25 isophotal ellipsis 35- 41 E7.3 cm-2 nH Galactic HI column density (1) 43- 48 F6.3 Mpc Dist Distance 50- 52 A3 --- r_Dist Reference on Dist (2) 54- 62 A9 --- MType The RC3 morphological type (3) 64- 67 F4.1 --- HType ? The RC3 Hubble T type 69- 74 E6.2 solLum LBlue ? The Blue luminosity (4) 76 A1 --- l_F60um Limit flag on F60um 77- 85 F9.4 Jy F60um The 60µm flux density (5) 87 A1 --- l_FIRMAG Limit flag on FIRMag 88- 92 F5.1 mag FIRMAG Absolute FIR magnitude (6) 94- 98 A5 --- Flag HII/starburst galaxy high star formation rate
Note (1): Taken from the dust map by Dickey & Lockman (1990ARA&A..28..215D). Note (2): Reference on Dist, defined as follows: KP = Key Project (Freedman et al., 2001ApJ...553...47F); SBF = Surface brightness fluctuation method (Tonry et al., 2001ApJ...546..681T); T92 = Nearby galaxy flow model by Tully (1992, Cat. J/ApJS/80/479); T88 = Nearby Galaxy Catalog (Tully 1988, Cat. VII/145); NED = Recessional velocities taken from the NED (V3K) service (RC3). Note (3): In the type code, S stands for spiral, E for elliptical, S0 for lenticular, I for irregular; (r) for inner ring, (s) for S-shaped, (rs) for mixed; B for barred, A for non-barred, AB for mixed; Im for magellanic irregular, I0 for non-magellanic irregular; the trailing -/o/+ for early/intermediate/late stage; etc. The detailed explanations can be found in the RC3 (Cat. VII/155) catalogue (p. 15, Vol. I). Note (4): Calculated from the apparent blue magnitude taken from RC3. The luminosity is expressed in unit of solar luminosity assuming a absolute blue magnitude of 5.47 for the Sun. Note (5): Taken from the IRAS point source catalog (IPAC, 1986, Cat. II/125), with some nearby galaxies from Rice et al. (1988, Cat. VII/109). When the galaxy is below detection, the 3{sigma} upper limit is calculated by adopting noise levels of 8.5mJy/arcmin2 for 60µm (Rice et al. 1988, Cat. VII/109). Note (6): Computed from the flux densities at 60µm and 100µm as prescribed in RC3 (Cat. VII/155). A leading "<" means the magnitude is computed from the upper limits of the flux densities.
Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2.dat
Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
1- 9 A9 --- Galaxy Galaxy name (1) 11- 13 A3 --- XName X-ray source name (1) 15- 16 I2 h RAh Hour of Right Ascension (J2000) 18- 19 I2 min RAm Minute of Right Ascension (J2000) 21- 25 F5.2 s RAs Second of Right Ascension (J2000) 27 A1 --- DE- Sign of the Declination (J2000) 28- 29 I2 deg DEd Degree of Declination (J2000) 31- 32 I2 arcmin DEm Arcminute of Declination (J2000) 34- 37 F4.1 arcsec DEs Arcsecond of Declination (J2000) 39 I1 --- Nc Number of X-ray sources identified (2) 41- 46 F6.1 arcsec r Nuclear offset 48- 51 F4.2 --- r/R25 Nuclear offset in unit of elliptical radius R25 53- 57 F5.1 --- s-Max Maximum detection significance among observations 59- 68 F10.4 10+32W Lum Maximum luminosity among all observations (3) 70 I1 --- Nv ? Number of observations in which the probability for the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test of the source being constant is less than 0.01 (4) 72 A1 --- Env Environments of the X-ray source (5) 74- 89 A16 --- ID Identification of the X-ray source (6) 91- 96 A6 --- ULX Source flag (7) 98-101 A4 --- UName ULX name in the clean ULX sample
Note (1): [LB2005] NGC NNNN XNN, [LB2005] NGC NNNNA XN, and [LB2005] PGC NNNNN XNN in Simbad. Note (2): With objects in astrometric catalogs used to correct the X-ray positions. Note (3): The X-ray luminosities are computed using a power-law spectrum between 0.3-8keV with a photon index of 1.7. Note (4): i.e., the source is highly variable during the observation. Note (5): Environments of the X-ray source, defined as follows: D = the source is in a dusty region usually associative of star forming activities. S = the source is associated with spiral arms. Note (6): Identification of the X-ray source, with symbols: * = the source is a bright foreground star; P/(Pr) = the source is positionally coincident with a point source in optical/IR/(Radio); mP = the source is close to multiple such point sources and unique identification requires better positions; Z = the source is close to faint fuzzy features on the optical image. () = Identification enclosed with parentheses when it is within the host galaxy. Note (7): This indicates whether the source is a nuclear source (N) or a ULX candidate (ULX). Prefix '1' stands for ULXs within the D25 isophote of the galaxy, '2' for ULXs between 1D25 and 2D25, and 'E' for ULXs with LX>1040erg/s. Suffix 'd' stands for ULXs that are above 1039erg/s in the deepest observation for the galaxy.
Byte-by-byte Description of file: table3.dat
Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
1- 9 A9 --- Galaxy Galaxy name (1) 11- 14 A4 --- Name Source name (1) (2) 16- 30 A15 --- Obs Individual observation (3) 32- 36 I5 d MJD Observation date in MJD (JD-2400000.5) 38- 42 F5.1 ks ExpTime Exposure time 44- 47 F4.1 --- DelD Time duration of the observation 48 A1 --- x_DelD [dh] Units for DelD value: days (d), hours (h) 50 A1 --- l_sigma Limit flag on sigma 51- 55 F5.1 --- sigma Detection significance 57- 61 F5.2 arcmin theta ? Off-axis angle 63- 66 F4.2 --- C ? Correction factor based on the simulations 68 A1 --- l_CorCnt Limit flag on CorCnt 69- 74 F6.1 ct CorCnt X-ray source count corrected by applying C 76- 80 F5.2 % e_CorCnt ? Fractional error for the corrected count 82 A1 --- l_Flux Limit flag on Flux 83- 90 E8.3 mW/m2 Flux Flux in units of erg/s/cm2 (4) 92 A1 --- l_LX Limit flag on LX 93-101 F9.4 10+32W LX ? X-ray luminosity in units of 10+39erg/s (5) 104-110 E7.2 --- PKS ? Non-variability test probability (6)
Note (1): [LB2005] NGC NNNN ULXN, [LB2005] NGC NNNNA ULXN, [LB2005] PGC NNNNN ULXN, in Simbad. Note (2): The source name refers to UName (table2.dat) if it starts with 'ULX', to XName (table2.dat) otherwise. Note (3): Suffixed is the sequence number in the source list from wavdetect. 'U' is suffixed when the source is below 3{sigma} detection in the observation. '+' is suffixed if the observation has the deepest sensitivity for the host galaxy. Note (4): Computed with the corrected source count, by assuming a power-law spectrum between 0.3-8keV with a photon index of 1.7. Note (5): Computed from the flux by assuming a distance to the host galaxy. Note (6): The probability for the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test null hypothesis that the source is constant during the observation.
History: From electronic version of the journal ================================================================================ (End) Greg Schwarz [AAS], Marianne Brouty [CDS] 04-Aug-2005