XRBcats: Galactic High Mass X-ray Binary Catalogue

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A&A, 677 (2023) A134

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Table A.1

Definition of columns in the HMXB catalogue. In total the catalogue contains 66 columns.

No	Column name	Unit	Description
1	‘Name’		Object name, which is the most common name in the literature
2	‘RAdeg’	deg	Right Ascension in degrees (ICRS).
3	‘DEdeg’	deg	Declination in degrees (ICRS).
4	‘PosErr’	arcsec	Positional error in arcseconds.
5	‘Coord_Ref’		Reference of catalogue or literature, which was used to extract the coordinates and uncertainties
6	‘ID_Flag’		Robust identification of the optical counterpart:
			0 — solidly identified optical counterpart in the literature
			1 — tentative optical counterpart identification in the literature
			2 — no identified optical counterpart
7	‘GLON’	deg	Galactic longitude in degrees.
8	‘GLAT’	deg	Galactic latitude in degrees.
9	‘Xray_Type’		List of the X-ray types assigned to the object. For more information see section above § 2.1.
10	‘Porb’	day	Orbital period of the binary system in days if determined.
11	‘Ppulse’	s	Pulsation period (spin) of the binary (with NS) in seconds if determined.
12	‘CRSF’	keV	Cyclotron line energies in keV
13	‘Alt_Name’		Second most used name in the literature.
14	‘SpType’		Spectral type of the optical counterpart.
15	‘Gaia_DR3_ID’		Source Name in the Gaia DR3 catalogue.
16	‘Gmag’	mag	Optical magnitude in G-band according to a Gaia’s catalogue.
17	‘e_Gmag’	mag	Corresponding magnitude’s error in G-band according to Gaia’s catalogue.
18	‘Vmag’	mag	Optical magnitude in V-band according to SIMBAD database.
19	‘e_Vmag’	mag	Corresponding magnitude’s error in V-band according to SIMBAD database.
20	‘Jmag’	mag	IR magnitude in J-band according to 2MASS (Cutri et al. 2003).
21	‘e_Jmag’	mag	Corresponding magnitude’s error in J-band according to 2MASS (Cutri et al. 2003).
22	‘Hmag’	mag	IR magnitude in H-band according to 2MASS (Cutri et al. 2003).
23	‘e_Hmag’	mag	Corresponding magnitude’s error in H-band according to 2MASS (Cutri et al. 2003).
24	‘Kmag’	mag	IR magnitude in K-band according to 2MASS (Cutri et al. 2003).
25	‘e_Kmag’	mag	Corresponding magnitude’s error in K-band according to 2MASS (Cutri et al. 2003).
26	‘W1mag’	mag	IR magnitude in W1 CatWISE2020 band (Marocco et al. 2021).
27	‘e_W1mag’	mag	Corresponding magnitude’s error in W1 CatWISE2020 band (Marocco et al. 2021).
28	‘W2mag’	mag	IR magnitude in W2 CatWISE2020 band (Marocco et al. 2021).
29	‘e_W2mag’	mag	Corresponding magnitude’s error in W2 CatWISE2020 band (Marocco et al. 2021).
30	‘N_H’	10²¹ cm⁻²	Neutral hydrogen column density, assuming a power-law spectrum (Evans et al. 2020).
31	‘XMM_min_flux’	10⁻¹² erg cm⁻² s⁻¹	Minimum X-ray flux for XMM-Newton (0.2-12.0 keV).
32	‘XMM_max_flux’	10⁻¹² erg cm⁻² s⁻¹	Maximum X-ray flux for XMM-Newton (0.2-12.0 keV).
33	‘Chandra_min_flux’	10⁻¹² erg cm⁻² s⁻¹	Minimum X-ray flux for Chandra ACIS (0.5-7.0 keV) or HRC ( 0.1-10.0 keV).
34	‘Chandra_max_flux’	10⁻¹² erg cm⁻² s⁻¹	Maximum X-ray flux for Chandra ACIS (0.5-7.0 keV) or HRC ( 0.1-10.0 keV).
35	‘Chandra_Instrument’		Chandra Instrument used for Chandra flux values.
36	‘XRT_min_flux’	10⁻¹² erg cm⁻² s⁻¹	Minimum X-ray flux for Swift/XRT (0.3-10.0 keV).
37	‘XRT_max_flux’	10⁻¹² erg cm⁻² s⁻¹	Maximum X-ray flux for Swift/XRT (0.3-10.0 keV).
38	‘BAT_min_flux’	10⁻¹² erg cm⁻² s⁻¹	Minimum X-ray flux for Swift/BAT (14-195 keV).
39	‘BAT_max_flux’	10⁻¹² erg cm⁻² s⁻¹	Maximum X-ray flux for Swift/BAT (14-195 keV).
40	‘INTEGRAL_min_flux’	10⁻¹² erg cm⁻² s⁻¹	Minimum X-ray flux for INTEGRAL (17-60 keV).
41	‘INTEGRAL_max_flux’	10⁻¹² erg cm⁻² s⁻¹	Maximum X-ray flux for INTEGRAL (17-60 keV).
42	‘Mean_Mass’	M_⊙	Mean mass of the compact object.
43	‘Low_Mass’	M_⊙	Lower limit of the compact object mass.
44	‘High_Mass’	M_⊙	Upper limit of the compact object mass.
45	‘Mean_Dist’	pc	Mean (between the two, minimum and maximum) estimate of the distance to the binary system according to Gaia Collaboration (2023); Bailer-Jones et al. (2021); Anders et al. (2022) or taken from literature. In every literature case only one source of information was taken.
46	‘Low_Dist’	pc	The lowest (minimum) estimate of the distance to the binary system according to Gaia Collaboration (2023); Bailer-Jones et al. (2021); Anders et al. (2022) or taken from literature. In every literature case only one source of information was taken.
47	‘High_Dist’	pc	The highest (maximum) estimate of the distance to the binary system according to Gaia Collaboration (2023); Bailer-Jones et al. (2021); Anders et al. (2022) or taken from literature. In every literature case only one source of information was taken.
48	‘Teff’	K	Effective stellar temperature provided by Gaia Collaboration (2023); Anders et al. (2022).
49	‘Lopt’	L_⊙	Luminosity estimate of the optical companion provided by Gaia Collaboration (2023).
50	‘IDS’		List of all identifiers, that we found in SIMBAD and in the catalogues and articles.
51	‘CRSF_Ref’		References to the articles, which providing the corresponding values for cyclotron line energies.
52	‘Spin_Ref’		References to the articles, which providing the corresponding value for Pulsation Periods.
53	‘Orb_Ref’		References to the articles, which providing the corresponding value for Orbital parameters.
54	‘Spectral_Ref’		References to the articles, which providing the spectral type of the optical star.
55	‘Dist_Ref’		Reference to the article, which provides the distance estimation, if literature values were used.
56	‘Mass_Ref’		Reference to the article, which provides the mass estimation of the compact object.
57	‘misc_Ref’		miscellaneous references regarding the object.
58	‘comments’		Comments regarding the object.
59	‘_2MASS_ID’		Source name in the 2MASS All-Sky Catalogue of Point Sources
60	‘CatWISE_ID’		Source name in the CatWISE2020 catalogue
61	‘ROSAT_ID’		Source name in the Second ROSAT all-sky survey (2RXS) source catalogue
62	‘XMM_ID		Source name in the XMM-Newton Serendipitous Source Catalogue
63	‘Chandra_ID’		Source name in the Chandra Source Catalogue (CSC) Release 2.0
64	‘XRT_ID’		Source name in the 2SXPS Swift X-ray telescope point source catalogue
65	‘BAT_ID’		Source name in the Swift-BAT 105-Month All-Sky Hard X-Ray Survey catalogue
66	‘INTEGRAL_ID		Source name in the INTEGRAL/IBIS 9-year Galactic Hard X-Ray Survey catalogue

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