Improved 2Ms and 250ks Chandra catalogs Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Xue Y.Q.
  2. Luo B.
  3. Brandt W.N.
  4. Alexander D.M.
  5. Bauer F.E.
  6. Lehmer B.D.,Yang G.
  7. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present improved point-source catalogs for the 2Ms Chandra Deep Field-North (CDF-N) and the 250ks Extended Chandra Deep Field-South (E-CDF-S) Surveys, implementing a number of recent improvements in Chandra source-cataloging methodology. For CDF-N/E-CDF-S, we provide a main catalog that contains 683/1003 X-ray sources detected with wavdetect at a false-positive probability threshold of 10^-5^ that also satisfy a binomial-probability source-selection criterion of P<=0.004/P<0.002. Such an approach maximizes the number of reliable sources detected: a total of 196/275 main-catalog sources are new compared to the Alexander+ (2003, J/AJ/126/539) CDF-N/Lehmer+ (2005, J/ApJS/161/21) E-CDF-S main catalogs. We also provide CDF-N/E-CDF-S supplementary catalogs that consist of 72/56 sources detected at the same wavdetect threshold and having P of 0.004-0.1/0.002-0.1 and Ks<=22.9/Ks<=22.3mag counterparts. For all ~1800 CDF-N and E-CDF-S sources, including the ~500 newly detected ones (these being generally fainter and more obscured), we determine X-ray source positions utilizing centroid and matched-filter techniques; we also provide multiwavelength identifications, apparent magnitudes of counterparts, spectroscopic and/or photometric redshifts, basic source classifications, and estimates of observed active galactic nucleus and galaxy source densities around respective field centers. Simulations show that both the CDF-N and E-CDF-S main catalogs are highly reliable and reasonably complete. Background and sensitivity analyses indicate that the on-axis mean flux limits reached represent a factor of ~1.5-2.0 improvement over the previous CDF-N and E-CDF-S limits. We make our data products publicly available.

Keywords
  1. x-ray-sources
  2. surveys
  3. redshifted
  4. astronomical-object-identification
  5. active-galactic-nuclei
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2016ApJS..224...15X
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ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/224/15
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.22240015

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History

2016-08-09T10:13:18Z
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2016-08-09T10:13:18Z
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2023-06-08T12:11:12Z
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