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arxiv: astro-ph/0410036 · v1 · submitted 2004-10-01 · 🌌 astro-ph

Three Years of ChaMPlane Northern Field WIYN Spectroscopy

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keywords starssourceschamplanechandracounterpartsobjectsopticalalpha-selected
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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.

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