ROSAT North Ecliptic Pole Survey Active Galactic Nuclei Catalog

The ROSAT North Ecliptic Pole (NEP) Survey of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) Catalog is an X-ray flux-limited sample of 219 AGN discovered in the contiguous 80.7 square degrees region of the ROSAT North Ecliptic Pole (NEP) Survey (Gioia et al. 2003, ApJS, 149, 29; <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/ApJS/149/29">CDS Cat. <J/ApJS/149/29></a>). This catalog features complete optical identifications and spectroscopic redshifts. The median redshift, X-ray flux, and X-ray luminosity are z = 0.41, fx = 1.1 x 10<sup>-13</sup> erg/cm<sup>2</sup>/s, and Lx = 9.2 x 10<sup>43</sup> h70<sup>-2</sup> erg/s (0.5 - 2.0 keV), respectively. Unobscured Type 1 AGN are the dominant constituents (90%) of this soft X-ray-selected sample of AGN. This catalog sample includes several notable revisions relative to previous versions of the catalog (Mullis 2001, Ph. D. thesis, U. Hawaii; Gioia et al. 2003, ApJS, 149, 29, available in HEASARC Browse as the ROSNEPOID table). Firstly, the AGN fluxes and luminosities previously reported were overestimated by approximately 20% on average as a result of an error in the conversion of X-ray count rate to flux. Secondly, the sample has grown by 1 because of the reclassification of one of the X-ray sources (RX J1824.7+6509). Finally, in the present study the authors have adopted the presently favored "concordance" cosmology in computing the X-ray luminosities. The revised and updated catalog with corrected properties presented here should be the reference point for any future work with the ROSAT NEP AGN sample. This table was created by the HEASARC in August 2005 based on CDS table J/ApJ/617/192/table1.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

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Creator Mullis et al.
Publisher NASA/GSFC HEASARC
Publication Year 2024
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Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Galactic and extragalactic Astronomy; High Energy Astrophysics; Natural Sciences; Physics