ROSAT PSPC Galactic Center Soft X-Ray Source Catalog

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This table contains a catalog of 107 point-like X-ray sources derived from a systematic analysis of all the ROSAT PSPC observations of the Galactic Center region performed in 1992-1993. Besides Sgr A*, the massive black hole at the galactic center, 41 X-ray sources have been positionally associated with already classified objects. Twenty are identified with foreground stars and five with known Low Mass X-ray Binaries (LMXBs). The majority of the sources in this catalog still remains unidentified. They are hard and/or severely absorbed and probably represent a large population of X-ray binaries located in the galactic center region, accreting at low accretion rates, and still largely unknown. Analyses were performed in 4 different energy ranges: 0.1 - 2.4 keV (PSPC channels 8 - 240, the total energy band T), 0.1 - 0.4 keV (PSPC channels 8 - 40, the soft energy band S), 0.5 - 0.9 keV (PSPC channels 52 - 90, the medium energy band), and 0.9 - 2.4 keV (PSPC channels 91 - 240, the hard energy band H). A maximum likelihood method was applied to the merged photon lists in each band. Only a detection liklihood larger than 10 (corresponding to a probability of a chance detection smaller than e<sup>-10</sup>) was considered to be a true source. This table was created by the HEASARC in March 2012 based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/368/835">CDS Catalog J/A+A/368/835</a> file table3.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

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5 https://osdr.nasa.gov/bio/repo/data/studies/OSD-837

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