Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1997-09-15
Astron.Astrophys. 329 (1998) 495-503
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Accepted to A&A, 10 pages, a LaTeX text, 7 postscript figures, psfig and l-aa.sty are tar'd, gzip'ed and uuencoded
Scientific paper
The ROSAT Deep Survey includes a complete sample of 50 X-ray sources with fluxes in the $0.5 - 2$ keV band larger than 5.5 $10^{-15}$ erg cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ in the Lockman field (Hasinger et al., Paper I). We have obtained deep broad-band CCD images of the field and spectra of many optical objects near the positions of the X-ray sources. We define systematically the process leading to the optical identifications of the X-ray sources. For this purpose, we introduce five identification (ID) classes that characterize the process in each case. Among the 50 X-ray sources, we identify 39 AGNs, 3 groups of galaxies, 1 galaxy and 3 galactic stars. Four X-ray sources remain unidentified so far; two of these objects may have an unusually large ratio of X-ray to optical flux. Keywords: surveys -- galaxies: active -- quasars: emission lines -- galaxies: Seyfert -- X-rays: galaxies
Burg Richard
Giacconi Riccardo
Gunn James
Hasinger Guenther
Lehmann Ingo
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