We report on optical searches in the error circles of 93 ROSAT survey sources located at low galactic latitudes (|b|<20{deg}). These sources were extracted from the ROSAT Galactic Plane Survey using various selection criteria on hardness ratio, X-ray and optical brightness and integrated galactic absorption in the direction of the source. We find optical identifications in 76 cases, among which are 25 new AGN, 6 new CVs and a new Be/X-ray binary. In order to illustrate the relevance of the source selections applied here, we cross-correlated the ROSAT all-sky survey bright source list with SIMBAD. Different classes of X-ray emitters populate distinct regions of a multi dimensional parameter space involving flux ratios, galactic latitude and N_H_. This relatively good segregation offers the possibility to build source samples with enhanced probability of identification with a given class. Complete optical identification of such subsamples could eventually be used to compute meaningful probabilities of identification for all sources using as basis a restricted set of multi-wavelength information.

Cone search capability for table J/A+AS/132/341/table4 (X-ray characteristics of ROSAT survey sources derived from the SASS as in October 1991)

Cone search capability for table J/A+AS/132/341/table5 (Optical identifications of ROSAT survey sources)