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EXOSAT ME Slew Catalog

Metadata Updated: August 30, 2025

This is the first online version of the EXMS catalog. It contains information on the 1210 sources detected by EXOSAT during slew manoevers between 1983 and 1986. Each detection was obtained by searching for excesses above the background level in the light curve, fitted with the expected triangular profile due to the source passing from one side of the collimator to the other. These light curves are available for inspection from the xray account at ESTEC/ESA (telnet :://xray@exosat.estec.esa.nl). The detection time, raw 1-8 keV count rate and position (based on the centroid of the uncertainty region) are given for all 1210 entries. 80% of entries have proposed single identifications, obtained by cross-correlation of the uncertainty region against other catalogs. For these sources, the count rates are also supplied after correction for collimator efficiency, normalised to counts/sec/half, where "half" refers to one half of the ME detector array. This ensures consistency with the entries in the ME database. Coordinates of the proposed counterpart are also given, together with object type. The remaining sources consist of cases where more than one plausible candidate lay within the uncertainty region or where no candidate could be found. For these cases, only raw count rates are supplied. This database is a modified copy of the exms databases available from ESTEC/ESA. It was re-built by the HEASARC in July 1999. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
Metadata Updated Date August 30, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from NASA Data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
Metadata Updated Date August 30, 2025
Publisher High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center
Maintainer
Identifier ivo://nasa.heasarc/exms
Data Last Modified 2025-08-27
Category Astrophysics
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 026:00
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Homepage URL https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/exms.html
Program Code 026:000
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 4a4af333aed449cc1aadb38f7d4b4e625b655720a265599a2773ae1e409662ba
Source Schema Version 1.1

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