ROSAT Deep X-Ray Radio Blazar Survey Catalog

The authors have undertaken a survey, the Deep X-Ray Radio Blazar Survey (DXRBS), of archived, pointed ROSAT Position Sensitive Proportional Counter (PSPC) data for blazars by correlating the ROSAT WGACAT database with several publicly available radio catalogs, restricting their candidate list to serendipitous flat radio spectrum sources (Alpha&lt;sub&gt;r&lt;/sub&gt; &lt;= 0.70, where S&lt;sub&gt;Nu&lt;/sub&gt; ~ Nu&lt;sup&gt;-Alpha&lt;sub&gt;r&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;). In their first paper (DXRBS-I), the authors discuss their survey methods, identification procedure, and first results. Their survey was found to be 95% efficient at finding flat-spectrum radio-loud quasars (FSRQs; 59 of their first 85 identifications) and BL Lacertae objects (22 of their first 85 identifications), a figure that is comparable to or greater than that achieved by other radio and X-ray survey techniques. The identifications presented therein showed that all previous samples of blazars (even when taken together) did not representatively survey the blazar population, missing critical regions of (L&lt;sub&gt;X&lt;/sub&gt;, L&lt;sub&gt;R&lt;/sub&gt;) parameter space within which large fractions of the blazar population lie. Particularly important was the identification of a large population of FSRQs (&gt;=25% of DXRBS-I FSRQs) with ratios of X-ray to radio luminosity &gt;= 10&lt;sup&gt;-6&lt;/sup&gt; (Alpha&lt;sub&gt;rx&lt;/sub&gt; &lt;= 0.78). In addition, as a result of their greater sensitivity, the DXRBS-I already more than doubled the number of FSRQs in complete samples with 5-GHz (radio) luminosities between 10&lt;sup&gt;31.5&lt;/sup&gt; and 10&lt;sup&gt;33.5&lt;/sup&gt; ergs/s/Hz, and filled in the region of parameter space between X-ray-selected and radio-selected samples of BL Lac objects. The DXRBS-I was the very first sample to contain statistically significant numbers of blazars at low luminosities, approaching what should be the lower end of the FSRQ luminosity function. In DXRBS-II, the authors presented new identifications and spectra for 106 sources, including 86 radio-loud quasars, 11 BL Lacertae objects, and nine narrow-line radio galaxies. Together with the DXRBS-I objects and already-known sources, their sample now contained 298 identified objects: 234 radio-loud quasars [181 flat-spectrum quasars: FSRQ (Alpha&lt;sub&gt;r&lt;/sub&gt; &lt;= 0.50) and 53 steep-spectrum quasars: SSRQ], 36 BL Lacs and 28 narrow-line radio galaxies. Redshift information is available for 96 per cent of these. Thus, the selection technique was ~90 per cent efficient at finding radio-loud quasars and BL Lacs. Reaching 5-GHz radio fluxes of ~ 50 mJy and 0.1 - 2.0 keV X-ray fluxes of a few times 10&lt;sup&gt;-14&lt;/sup&gt; erg/cm&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;/s, DXRBS is the faintest and largest flat-spectrum radio sample with nearly complete (~85 per cent) identification. The DXRBS-I entries in this catalog (identified by having values of the parameter dxrbs_part equal to 1) contain data for 85 identified sources meeting the authors&#39; selection criteria. A number of sources were serendipitously observed by ROSAT on more than one occasion, and, for completeness, the WGACAT positions and values for these multiply observed sources are listed separately, resulting in 102 DXRBS-I entries in this catalog (71 sources with 1 X-ray observation, 11 sources with 2 X-ray observations, and 3 sources with 3 X-ray observations). The DXRBS-II entries in this catalog (identified by having values of the parameter dxrbs_part equal to 2) contain data for 106 identified sources meeting the authors&#39; selection criteria. A number of sources were serendipitously observed by ROSAT on more than one occasion, and, for completeness, the WGACAT positions and values for these multiply observed sources are listed separately. In one case (1WGA J0513.8+0156&#39;) the source was detected twice by ROSAT and there are two possible optical counterparts: there are 2 entries for each X-ray observation corresponding to the different conterparts, resulting in a total of 4 entries for this source. There are 92 DXRBS-II sources with 1 X-ray observation, 11 sources with 2 X-ray observations, 2 sources with 4 X-ray observations and 1 source with 5 X-ray observations) resulting in 127 DXRBS-II entries for 106 sources in this catalog. Four of the DXRBS-I objects (1WGA J0421.5+1433, 1WGA J0528.5-5820, 1WGA J1057.6-7724 and 1WGA J1222.6+2934) were also included in DXRBS-II as higher signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) spectra were available. Thus, in the sum of the 2 DXRBS parts presented here, there are 229 entries corresponding to 191 newly discovered sources. The 109 previously identified blazars, 97 of which were listed in Table 6 of DXRBS-I, are not included in this table. This table was created by the HEASARC in March 2012 based on the merger of files table3.dat and table4.dat from the &lt;a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/AJ/115/1253"&gt;CDS Catalog J/AJ/115/1253&lt;/a&gt; (DXRBS-I) and files table4.dat and table5.dat from the &lt;a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/MNRAS/323/757"&gt;CDS Catalog J/MNRAS/323/757&lt;/a&gt; (DXRBS-II). (Note that it does not include the list of 97 previously identified blazars given in table6.dat of the &lt;a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/AJ/115/1253"&gt;CDS Catalog J/AJ/115/1253&lt;/a&gt;.) The current DXRBS table replaced a previous version (ingested in March 1999) which included only the DXRBS-I tables 3 and 4. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

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