A catalogue of soft X-ray sources in the galactic center region

L. Sidoli(1), T. Belloni(2), S. Mereghetti(3)


(1) Astrophysics Division, Space Science Department of ESA, ESTEC, Postbus 299, NL-2200 AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands &
(2) Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Via Bianchi 46, I-23807 Merate (Lc), Italy &
(3) Istituto di Fisica Cosmica ``G. Occhialini'', CNR, via Bassini 15, I-20133 Milano, Italy

Paper: A&A 2001, in press

EPrint Server: astro-ph/0101156


Abstract:

We present a catalogue 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 SgrA*, 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. The majority of the sources in our catalogue 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.


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