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Chandra Multiwavelength Plane Survey Optical ID Catalog

Listed in IVOA Registry (Virtual Observatory)

The authors have carried out optical and X-ray spectral analyses on a sample of 136 candidate optical counterparts of X-ray sources found in five Galactic bulge fields included in their Chandra Multiwavelength Plane (ChaMPlane) Survey.

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They used a combination of optical spectral fitting and quantile X-ray analysis to obtain the hydrogen column density toward each object, and a three-dimensional dust model of the Galaxy to estimate the most probable distance in each case.

They present the discovery of a population of stellar coronal emission sources, likely consisting of pre-main-sequence, young main-sequence, and main-sequence stars, as well as a component of active binaries of RS CVn or BY Dra type. They identify one candidate quiescent low-mass X-ray binary with a sub-giant companion, but note that this object may also be an RS CVn system. They report the discovery of 3 new X-ray-detected cataclysmic variables (CVs) in the direction of the Galactic center (at distances <~2 kpc).

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This number is in excess of predictions made with a simple CV model based on a local CV space density of <~10<sup>-5</sup> pc<sup>-3</sup>, and a scale height of ~200 pc. They discuss several possible reasons for this observed excess in their paper. This table was created by the HEASARC in October 2008 based on the version of Table 5 from the paper which was obtained from the electronic ApJ web site.

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Optical · X-Ray
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Astronomical sciences 69% · Tabular 65%
Provenance · 1 source records, 10 field assertions
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IVOA Registry (Virtual Observatory)ivo://nasa.heasarc/champlane13 d agoJSON v1
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