The Cambridge-Cambridge ROSAT Serendipity Survey - V. Catalogue and optical identifications

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Mar 1997

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997mnras.285..511b&link_type=abstract

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 285, Issue 3, pp. 511-528.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Surveys, Galaxies: Active, Quasars: General, X-Rays: General

Scientific paper

We report the results of a medium-depth X-ray survey of 20 ROSAT Position Sensitive Proportional Counter (PSPC) fields. 123 X-ray sources were detected down to a flux limit of S(0.5-2 keV)>2x10^-14 erg s^-1 cm^-2 lying between that of the Einstein Extended Medium Sensitivity Survey (EMSS) and the deepest ROSAT surveys. Optical identifications of 110 of these sources have revealed 68 QSOs, 12 narrow-emission-line X-ray-luminous galaxies (NLXGs), 24 stars, two BL Lac objects, two galaxies and two clusters. CCD imaging reveals the possible presence of galaxy groups or clusters at the positions of a further four X-ray sources. The number-redshift and log N-log S relations of the 68 QSOs are in better agreement with the faster rate of cosmological evolution for X-ray QSOs derived from ROSAT deep surveys [L_X~(1+z)^3.34+/-0.1, z_max=1.79] than with the evolution obtained from the EMSS [L_X~(1+z)^2.55+/-0.1], the latter being rejected at greater than the 3sigma level as a model for the current sample. We present the optical spectra and measurements of the emission lines. The equivalent-width distributions are consistent with those of QSO samples selected in other wavebands. We find no evidence for an inverse correlation between line width and X-ray spectral slope as recently reported for other ROSAT QSO samples.

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