Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-11-11
Astron.Astrophys.399:351-364,2003
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
15 pages, 20 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20021778
We present the Brera Multi-scale Wavelet ROSAT HRI source catalogue (BMW-HRI) derived from all ROSAT HRI pointed observations with exposure time longer than 100 s available in the ROSAT public archives. The data were analyzed automatically using a wavelet detection algorithm suited to the detection and characterization of both point-like and extended sources. This algorithm is able to detect and disentangle sources in very crowded fields and/or in presence of extended or bright sources. Images have been also visually inspected after the analysis to ensure verification. The final catalogue, derived from 4,303 observations, consists of 29,089 sources detected with a detection probability of greater or equal 4.2 sigma. For each source, the primary catalogue entries provide name, position, count rate, flux and extension along with the relative errors. In addition, results of cross-correlations with existing catalogues at different wavelengths (FIRST, IRAS, 2MASS and GSC2) are also reported. All these information are available on the web via the DIANA Interface. As an external check, we compared our catalogue with the previously available ROSHRICAT catalogue (both in its short and long versions) and we were able to recover, for the short version, \~90% of the entries. We computed the sky coverage of the entire HRI data set by means of simulations. The complete BMW-HRI catalogue provides a sky coverage of 732 square degrees down to a limiting flux of ~1E-12 erg/s/cm2 and of 10 square degrees down to ~1E-14 erg/s/cm2. We were able to compute the cosmological log(N)-log(S) distribution down to a flux of about 1.2x1E-14 erg/s/cm2.
Campana Sergio
Covino Stefano
Lazzati Davide
Mignani Roberto P.
Moretti Alberto
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