The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) is an international mission led by Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). XRISM was launched on 2023 September 6 (UT) into a near-circular orbit with an apogee of ~575 km, an inclination of ~31 degrees, and an orbital period of about 96 minutes. During the performance verification (PV) phase, targets selected by the XRISM science team are being observed. Subsequently, it will become a general observatory with annual call for proposals open to all astronomers. XRISM has two co-aligned instruments that are used concurrently: Resolve, a soft X-ray spectrometer, and Xtend, a wide field-of-view imager. Resolve uses an X-ray microcalorimeter with ~5 eV spectral resolution withs a 3x3 arcmin field of view. It is currently operating with the Gate Valve closed, which limits its effective bandpass to 1.7-12 keV. Xtend is an X-ray CCD instrument with a 38 x 38 arcmin² field of view. This table contains a list of observations that have taken place as well as those that have been accepted and planned. The latter includes pre-approved targets for TOO observations and priority C targets whose observations are not guaranteed. This database table is based on information supplied by the XRISM Science Data Center at NASA/GSFC. It is updated automatically on a regular basis. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

This table records high-level information for the observations obtained with HaloSat and provides access to the HaloSat data archive. HaloSat is the first astrophysics-focused CubeSat funded by NASA's Astrophysics Division (PI P. Kaaret, University of Iowa). HaloSat is designed to map soft X-ray oxygen line emissions across the sky in order to constrain the mass and spatial distribution of hot gas in the Milky Way. HaloSat was launched from the NASA Wallops Flight Facility and delivered to the International Space Station on May 21, 2018. HaloSat was deployed into orbit on July 13, 2018. The spacecraft and science instrument commissioning phase ended on October 16, 2018, and science operations started after that. Initially approved to operate for 12 months, HaloSat successfully collected science data from October 15, 2018, until September 29, 2020, effectively doubling the mission lifetime. HaloSat reentered Earth's atmosphere on January 4, 2021. To trace the Galactic halo, HaloSat is equipped with a non-focusing instrument, comprised of three independent silicon drift detectors (SDD14, SDD38, SDD54) operating in the energy range of 0.4 - 7.0 keV with a field of view of 10 deg in diameter and an energy resolution of 84.8 +/- 2.7 eV at 677 eV and 137.4 +/- 0.9 eV at 5895 eV. The observing strategy was to divide the sky into 333 positions (HaloSat fields) and acquire a minimum of 8000 detector-seconds for each position throughout the initial 12 months of operations. After launch, additional positions were added to the initial 333 positions. HaloSat observations of the chosen fields are divided in intervals of time such that the data files do not exceed 2GB. Each observation is labeled with a sequence number. This database table contains one record for each sequence number and includes parameters related to the observation. The contents of this database table are generated at the HEASARC using information from the data files. The table was last updated in April 2023. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

The MIPSGAL Survey is a Legacy Program of the Spitzer Space Telescope that imaged the 24 and 70 micron emission along the inner disk of the Milky Way (Carey et al. 2009). These mid-infrared bands are sensitive to the thermal emission radiated by interstellar dust grains that reside within a broad range of environments such as the envelopes of evolved stars, circumstellar disks and infalling envelopes surrounding young stellar objects, HII regions, supernova remnants, and the extended domains of dense, interstellar clouds. With its primary 24 micron band, MIPSGAL provides a critical wavelength measurement, which links the near infrared data from 2MASS and GLIMPSE to the far-infrared/submillimeter information for both point sources and diffuse emission. The MIPSGAL 24 micron Archive contains the most complete list of MIPSGAL sources.

This table combines the published X-ray source catalogs of the high galactic latitude (|b| > 10^o), Kawamuro et 2018, and the low galactic latitude (|b| < 10^o), Hori et al. 2018, based on 7 years of MAXI Gas Slit Camera (GSC) data from 2009 August 13 to 2016 July 31. The low galactic latitude catalog contains 221 sources with a significance threshold > 6.5 sigma. The low galactic faintest source has a flux of 5.2 x 10^-12 erg cm^-2 s^-1 (or an intensity of 0.43 mCrab) in the 4-10 keV band. The high galactic latitude catalog contains 686 sources detected at significances >= 6.5 sigma in the 4-10 keV band. The high galactic 4-10 keV sensitivity reaches ~0.48 mCrab, or ~5.9 x 10^-12 erg cm^-2 s^-1, over half of the survey area. The same data-screening criteria were applied to obtain the low and high galactic catalogs. In their papers the authors describe the detection method, the statistical quantities derived for each source and their variability. To derive a counterpart, each source was cross-matched with the Swift/BAT 105-month catalog (BAT105; Oh et al. 2018), the Uhuru fourth catalog (4U; Forman et al. 1978), the RXTE All-Sky Monitor long-term observed source table (XTEASMLONG16), Meta-Catalog of X-Ray Detected Clusters of Galaxies (MCXC; Piffaretti et al. 2011), the XMM-Newton Slew Survey Catalog (XMMSL217), and the ROSAT All-Sky Survey Bright Source Catalog (1RXS; Voges et al. 1999). Seven of the sources in the low galactic latitudes were detected by binning the data differently (source numbers 215-221 in the catalog named 73-day sources), and, similarly, four of the sources in the high galactic latitude catalog named transient sources. The parameters in the combined table include the source name (3MAXI), the position and its error, the detection significances and fluxes in the 4-10 keV, 3-4 keV bands and 10-20 keV bands the hardness ratios (HR1: 3-4 keV, 4-10 keV and HR2: 4-10 keV, 10-20 keV), excess variance in the 4-10 keV lightcurve and information on the likely counterpart. The high galactic catalogs also reports the flux in the 3-10 keV, an additional hardness (HR3: 3-10 keV and 10-20 keV) and an additional parameter representing variability. The hardness ratios are defined as H-S/H+S were S and H are the soft- and hard-band fluxes, respectively. This table was created by the HEASARC in April 2021. It is a combination of the 7-year low- and high-latitude MAXI source catalogs published on ApJS. The data for the low-galactic latitude and the high-galactic latitude were downloaded from the ApJS electronic version of the Hori et al. 2018 ApJS 235,7 and Kawamuro et al. 2018 ApJS 238,33 papers respectively. The low-latitude data included in this table are from tables 4, 5, 6, 7 of the Hori paper that report the X-ray sources detected (214 sources, table 4), their possible identification (table 5), the transient sources discovered binning the data on 73 days period (7 sources, table 5) and their identification (table 6). The high-latitude data included in this table are from the tables 1,2,3 of the Kawamuro paper that report the X-ray sources detected (682 sources in table 1), their identifications (table 2), and the transient sources (4 sources in table 3). The low and high galactic latitude source catalogs provide for each individual source similar parameters for the X-ray properties with the high-latitude having three additional parameters, specifically, the flux in the 3-10 keV energy range, the 3-10/10-20-keV hardness ratio, and a time variability test. These parameters are kept in the HEASARC combined table and set to "blank" values for the low-latitude sources. The four sources in the high-latitude catalog named transient sources have only fluxes in the 4-10 keV band and no other fluxes in the other energy bands or the hardness ratio are reported. The HEASARC combined table includes a field to identify whether the source is from the

The ACIS instrument on board the Chandra X-Ray Observatory has been used to carry out the first systematic study of low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) in M 87 (NGC 4486), the giant elliptical galaxy near the dynamical center of the Virgo Cluster. These images - with a total exposure time of 154 ks - are the deepest X-ray observations obtained as of 2004 of M 87. The authors identified 174 X-ray point sources, (contained in this Browse table) of which ~ 150 are likely LMXBs. This LMXB catalog was combined with deep F475W and F850LP images taken with ACS on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) (as part of the ACS Virgo Cluster Survey) to examine the connection between LMXBs and globular clusters in M87. Of the 1688 globular clusters in the authors' catalog, a fraction f_X = 3.6% +/- 0.5% contain an LMXB. M 87 (NGC 4486) was observed with the Chandra Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS) for 121 ks on 2002 July 5-6. In this table, only the S3 chip data are used. The data were processed following the CIAO data reduction threads, including a correction for charge transfer inefficiency (CTI). In addition, the authors used 38 ks of archival ACIS observations of M 87 taken on 2000 July 29. These data were processed in a fashion similar to the 2002 July data, except that no CTI correction was possible because the data were telemetered in graded mode. All reductions were carried out with CIAO, version 2.3, coupled with CALDB, version 2.21. In order to combine the event files into a single image for point-source detection, the authors obtained relative offsets by matching the celestial coordinates of two X-ray point sources. The relative offset was ~ 0.5". The total exposure time of the co-added image, excluding four background flares totaling ~ 2.5 ks, was 154 ks. This table was created by the HEASARC in March 2007 based on the CDS table J/ApJ/613/279, file table1.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .