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The Hamburg/RASS optical identification project

F. -J. Zickgraf, D. Engels, H. -J. Hagen, D. Reimers

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0009303

Abstract

We use digitized Schmidt direct and prism plates taken for the northern hemisphere Hamburg Quasar Survey (HQS) to obtain optical identifications for all high galactic latitude X-ray sources in the ROSAT Bright Source Catalogue (RASS-BSC) at |b|>=30 deg and DEC >= 0deg. In this part of the sky the RASS-BSC contains about 5300 X-ray sources. Presently, identifications exist for about 4100 RASS-BSC sources in this galactic latitude range.

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