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RASS/All-Sky Automated Survey Eclipsing Binaries Catalog

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The authors have combined their catalog of eclipsing binaries from the All-Sky Automated Survey (ASAS) with the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS) Bright and Faint Source Catalogs (RASSBSC and RASSFSC).

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The combination using a matching radius of 50 arcseconds results in 836 eclipsing binaries that display coronal activity and is the largest sample of active binary stars assembled to the date of publication. By using the (V-I) colors of the ASAS eclipsing binary catalog, the authors are able to determine the distances and thus bolometric luminosities for the majority of eclipsing binaries that display significant stellar activity.

A typical value for the ratio of soft X-ray to bolometric luminosity is L<sub>X</sub>/L<sub>bol</sub> ~ a few x 10<sup>-4</sup>, similar to the ratio of soft X-ray to bolometric flux F<sub>X</sub>/F<sub>bol</sub> in the most active regions of the Sun. Unlike rapidly rotating isolated late-type dwarfs - stars with significant outer convection zones - a tight correlation between Rossby number and activity of eclipsing binaries is absent.

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The authors find evidence for the saturation effect and marginal evidence for the so-called "super-saturation" phenomena. Their work shows that wide-field stellar variability searches can produce a high yield of binary stars with strong coronal activity. The authors expect that only 1.4% (i.e., 12 out of 836) of the matches between the ASAS eclipsing binary and RASS sources will be false given their maximum angular separation criterion of 50 arcseconds.

This Browse table excludes 29 contact binaries for which the separate distance estimates made by the authors using the source V-band and I-band magnitudes differed by more than 20%, and hence contains 807 (836 - 29) eclipsing and X-ray emitting binary systems. Complete information on ASAS and its freely accessible data are available at the ASAS web site: <a href="astrouw.edu.pl/asas/">http://www.astrouw.edu.pl/asas/</a>.

This table was created by the HEASARC in July 2010 based on <a href="cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/AcA/58/405">CDS catalog J/AcA/58/405</a> file catalog.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

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