Abstract

We are currently working with a statistically complete, unbiased sample of 125 x-ray-bright stars which were serendipitously detected by the Einstein Observatory Medium Sensitivity Survey (MSS). A program of optical spectroscopy and photometry is currently underway to measure radial velocities, distances, and such stellar parameters as rotation, temperature, surface gravity, metallicity, chromospheric activity, and age and to correlate them with absolute x-ray luminosity. So far, the majority of the sample (which was defined at |b II | > 20 o ) appears to be composed of either flare stars (e.g. dMe, dKe) or active binary systems (e.g. cataclysmic variables, RS CVn, W UMa).

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