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The ROSAT (Roentgensatellit) X-ray astronomy satellite has completed the first all-sky X-ray and XUV survey with imaging telescopes. About 50 000 new X-ray and 1500 new XUV sources were detected. The identification of these sources using digitised optical sky surveys has begun.
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Voges, W. (1992). The Rosat All-Sky Survey and First Identifications of X-Ray Sources Using Digitised Optical Plates. In: MacGillivray, H.T., Thomson, E.B. (eds) Digitised Optical Sky Surveys. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 174. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2472-0_57
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