ASCA Galactic Plane Survey of Faint X-Ray Sources

Sugizaki et al. (2001) have published a study of faint X-ray sources that were resolved in the ASCA Galactic Plane Survey and their contribution to the galactic ridge X-ray emission, and the present database contains their list of discrete sources. The X-ray emission from the central region of the Galactic plane, |l|<~45 degrees and |b|<~0.4 degrees, was studied in the 0.7 to 10 keV energy band with a spatial resolution of ~3' with the Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics (ASCA) observatory. The authors developed a new analysis method for the ASCA data to resolve discrete sources from the extended Galactic ridge X-ray emission (GRXE). Using the ASCA Gas Imaging Spectrometers (GISs), they successfully resolved 163 discrete sources with X-ray fluxes down to 10<sup>-12</sup>.5<sup>ergs/cm</sup>2/s and determined the intensity variations of the GRXE as a function of the Galactic longitude with a spatial resolution of about 1 degree. This database was created by the HEASARC in December 2001 based on the ADC/<a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/ApJS/134/77/table2">CDS Catalog J/ApJS/134/77/table2</a>.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

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Last Updated November 3, 2026, 05:25 (UTC)
Created April 1, 2025, 13:28 (UTC)
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