Identifying the X-ray sources detected by the ASCA Galactic Plane Survey

Our understanding of Galactic faint Xray sources is limited. Although many suchsources have been detected by the ASCA Galactic Plane Survey, the majority stillremain unidentified, particularly due to the poor accuracy in position (13arcmin). The main aim of this proposal is to use XMMNewton to measure accuratepositions for these sources, allowing optical/IR followup to identify them. Thiswill lead to a greater understanding of these sources and allow better tests ofbinary and Galactic evolution models truncated!, Please see actual data for full text [truncated!, Please see actual data for full text]