{"@type": "dcat:Dataset", "accessLevel": "public", "bureauCode": ["026:00"], "contactPoint": {"@type": "vcard:Contact", "fn": "HEASARC Help Desk", "hasEmail": "mailto:andrew.ptak@nasa.gov"}, "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<sup>2</sup> covered in SDSS-IV by the eBOSS survey. This catalog presents the SPIDERS XMM subsample of 3,196 sources which were drawn from the XMM Slew Survey source catalog, version 2 (XMMSL2), provided by the HEASARC in <a href=\"/W3Browse/xmm-newton/xmmslewful.html\">XMMSLEWFUL</a>. The accompanying <a href=\"/W3Browse/rosat/spidersros.html\">SPIDERSROS</a> table contains the 21,288 sources drawn from the Second ROSAT All-Sky Survey (2RXS) Source Catalog, available from the HEASARC as <a href=\"/W3Browse/rosat/rass2rxs.html\">RASS2RXS</a>. 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 <a href=\"https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/636/A97\">CDS Catalog J/A+A/636/A97</a> file vcxmmsl2.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "downloadURL": "https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/spidersxmm.html", "format": "HTML", "mediaType": "text/html"}, {"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "downloadURL": "https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/xamin/vo/cone?showoffsets&table=spidersxmm&", "format": "BIN", "mediaType": "application/octet-stream"}], "identifier": "ivo://nasa.heasarc/spidersxmm", "keyword": ["__"], "landingPage": "ivo://nasa.heasarc/spidersxmm", "license": "https://www.usa.gov/government-works", "modified": "2026-06-22", "programCode": ["026:000"], "publisher": {"@type": "org:Organization", "name": "High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center"}, "theme": ["Astrophysics"], "title": "SDSS-IV/SPIDERS XMM-Based X-Ray Point Source Spectroscopic Catalog"}