The ROSAT All-Sky Survey Bright Source Catalogue (1RXS)

W. Voges, B. Aschenbach, Th. Boller, H. Bräuninger, U. Briel, W. Burkert, K. Dennerl, J. Englhauser, R. Gruber, F. Haberl, G. Hartner, G. Hasinger, M. Kürster, E. Pfeffermann, W. Pietsch, P. Predehl, C. Rosso, J.H.M.M. Schmitt, J. Trümper, and H.-U. Zimmermann

Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, 85740 Garching, Germany

To be published in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1996.
The catalogue can be used for scientific purposes as long as the above publication is referenced.

rosat@mpe ... up

Browsing the catalogue via WWW

Subsets of the catalogue sources - selected by certain properties - may be retrieved via: In certain cases, the list provided contains also links to source images.

Retrieving the full catalogue

The ROSAT All-Sky Survey Bright Source Catalogue can be retrieved via your WWW browser:

  1. Select the 'Load to local disk' option of your WWW browser.
  2. Open URL http://www.rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de/survey/rass-bsc/rass-bsc-1rxs.cat.gz
  3. Be patient - transmission can take a while (catalogue size is 1 MB).
  4. Specify a name for the catalogue file in your local computer environment (recommended: rass-bsc-1rxs.cat.gz). Alternatively, the catalogue is accessible via anonymous ftp: 
        ftp ftp.rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de
    user anonymous, <your e-mail address> as password
    cd archive/survey/rass-bsc
    binary
    get README
    get rass-bsc-1rxs.cat.gz
    get <more files>
    quit
    After transmission, the local catalogue file has to be uncompressed by 'gunzip <filename>'.

    A description of the catalogue format is available.

    Correlation with other Catalogues

    An extended version of the ROSAT All-Sky Survey Bright Source Catalogue is in preparation. This catalogue will contain possible source identifications obtained by cross-correlating the ROSAT All-Sky Survey Bright Source Catalogue with many other catalogues, and source identifications obtained by optical follow-up observations.

    Call for identifications:

    We plan to include further identifications of X-ray sources into the identification catalogue. Please contact survey@rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de, if you are interested to contribute your identifcations to this catalogue.
    Feedback to: survey@rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de (jer / 14-Jun-96)