Three Years of ChaMPlane Northern Field WIYN Spectroscopy

Abstract

We present initial results of WIYN spectroscopic observations of selected objects detected in the Chandra Multiwavelength Plane (ChaMPlane) Survey in fields towards the Galactic anti-center. ChaMPlane is designed to identify low luminosity X-ray sources, both accretion-powered and stellar coronal, in the Galaxy. It also includes a wider-fields optical imaging Survey conducted with the NOAO Mosaic cameras to identify optical counterparts as well as H alpha-selected objects in the ~5 times larger field. We report spectra for 1048 objects in galactic anti-center (i.e. northern) fields, resulting in 609 type determinations. These include 5 new cataclysmic variables, 4 Be stars, 14 lithium-absorption stars, 180 stellar coronal sources (primarily dMe stars), and 29 new quasars. Bright optical counterparts of Chandra sources in this sample are most frequently dMe stars whereas a majority of the faintest (R ~21) spectroscopically classified Chandra source counterparts are quasars. The bulk of H alpha-selected sources appears to be roughly evenly divided between dMe stars and M stars at all magnitudes.