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  "description": "This catalog aims to provide a detailed description of the SPectroscopic IDentification of ERosita Sources (SPIDERS) survey, an SDSS-IV program aimed at obtaining spectroscopic classification and redshift measurements for complete samples of sufficiently bright X-ray sources. The authors describe the SPIDERS X-Ray Point Source Spectroscopic Catalog, considering its store of 11,092 observed spectra drawn from a parent sample of 14,759 ROSAT and XMM sources over an area of 5,129 deg&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; covered in SDSS-IV by the eBOSS survey. This catalog presents the SPIDERS ROSAT subsample of 21,288 sources which were drawn from the Second ROSAT All-Sky Survey (2RXS), provided by the HEASARC in &lt;a href=\"/W3Browse/rosat/rass2rxs.html\"&gt;RASS2RXS&lt;/a&gt;. The accompanying &lt;a href=\"/W3Browse/xmm-newton/spidersxmm.html\"&gt;SPIDERSXMM&lt;/a&gt; table contains the 3,196 sources drawn from the XMM Slew Survey Source Catalog, version 2 (XMMSL2), provided by the HEASARC in &lt;a href=\"/W3Browse/xmm-newton/xmmslewful.html\"&gt;XMMSLEWFUL&lt;/a&gt;. This program represents the largest systematic spectroscopic observation of an X-ray selected sample. A total of 10,970 (98.9%) of the observed objects are classified and 10,849 (97.8%) have secure redshifts. The majority of the spectra (10,070 objects) are active galactic nuclei (AGN), 522 are cluster galaxies, and 294 are stars. The SDSS-IV/BOSS spectrographic observations are taken between 2014 and 2019. This table was created by the HEASARC in May 2020 based upon the &lt;a href=\"https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/636/A97\"&gt;CDS Catalog J/A+A/636/A97&lt;/a&gt; file vc2rxs.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .",
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