Results of a search for new microquasars in the Galaxy

Ribó, M.; Paredes, J. M.; Martí, J.; Casares, J.; Bloom, J. S.; Falco, E. E.; Ros, E.; Massi, M.
Bibliographical reference

Compact Binaries in the Galaxy and Beyond, Proceedings of the conference held 17-22 November, 2003 in La Paz, Baja California Sur. Edited by G. Tovmassian and E. Sion. Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica (Serie de Conferencias) Vol. 20. IAU Colloquium 194, pp. 23-24 (2004) (http://www.astroscu.unam.mx/~rmaa/)

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2004
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We present here the results of a search for new microquasars at low galactic latitudes, based on a cross-identification between the ROSAT all sky Bright Source Catalog (RBSC) and the NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) and follow-up observations. The results obtained up to now suggest that persistent/silent microquasars such as LS 5039 are rare objects in our Galaxy, and indicate that future deeper surveys, and harder than the RBSC in X-rays, will play a fundamental role in order to discover them.