ROSAT PSPC Galactic Center Soft X-Ray Source Catalog

Besides Sgr A*, the massive black hole at the galactic center, 41 X-ray sources have been positionally associated with already classified objects. Twenty are identified with foreground stars and five with known Low Mass X-ray Binaries (LMXBs).

The majority of the sources in this catalog still remains unidentified. They are hard and/or severely absorbed and probably represent a large population of X-ray binaries located in the galactic center region, accreting at low accretion rates, and still largely unknown. Analyses were performed in 4 different energy ranges: 0.1 - 2.4 keV (PSPC channels 8 - 240, the total energy band T), 0.1 - 0.4 keV (PSPC channels 8 - 40, the soft energy band S), 0.5 - 0.9 keV (PSPC channels 52 - 90, the medium energy band), and 0.9 - 2.4 keV (PSPC channels 91 - 240, the hard energy band H).