7yr MAXI/GSC X-ray source cat. (3MAXI), |b|<10{deg} Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Hori T.
  2. Shidatsu M.
  3. Ueda Y.
  4. Kawamuro T.
  5. Morii M.
  6. Nakahira S.,Isobe N.
  7. Kawai N.
  8. Mihara T.
  9. Matsuoka M.
  10. Morita T.
  11. Nakajima M.,Negoro H.
  12. Oda S.
  13. Sakamoto T.
  14. Serino M.
  15. Sugizaki M.
  16. Tanimoto A.,Tomida H.
  17. Tsuboi Y.
  18. Tsunemi H.
  19. Ueno S.
  20. Yamaoka K.
  21. Yamada S.,Yoshida A.
  22. Iwakiri W.
  23. Kawakubo Y.
  24. Sugawara Y.
  25. Sugita S.
  26. Tachibana Y.,Yoshii T.
  27. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present the first MAXI/GSC X-ray source catalog in the low-Galactic-latitude sky |b|<10{deg} outside the Galactic center region (|b|<5{deg}, l<30{deg}, and l>330{deg}) based on 7-year data from 2009 August 13 to 2016 July 31. To overcome source confusion in crowded regions, we have accurately calibrated the position-dependent shape of the point-spread function of the MAXI/GSC by analyzing onboard data. We have also taken into account the Galactic ridge X-ray emission. Using a maximum likelihood image fitting method, we have detected 221 sources with a significance threshold >6.5{sigma}, 7 of which are transients only detected in 73-day time-sliced images. The faintest source has a flux of 5.2x10^-12^erg/cm^2^/s (or an intensity of 0.43mCrab) in the 4-10keV band. We have identified the counterparts for about 81% of the detected sources, by cross-matching with the Swift, Uhuru, RXTE, XMM-Newton, MCXC, and ROSAT all-sky survey catalogs. Our catalog contains the source name, position and its error, flux and detection significance in the 3-4keV, 4-10keV, and 10-20keV bands, hardness ratios, and information on the likely counterpart for the individual detected sources. We have obtained 73-day bin light curves of all the cataloged sources over 7 years and have calculated their periodograms. On the basis of the mean properties of time variability and spectral hardness, we suggest that the majority of the unidentified sources are low-mass X-ray binaries or blazars. Finally, we present the log N-log S relations at different Galactic longitudes and for different source populations.

Keywords
  1. x-ray-binary-stars
  2. astronomical-object-identification
  3. active-galactic-nuclei
  4. cataclysmic-variable-stars
  5. surveys
  6. x-ray-sources
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2018ApJS..235....7H
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https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJS/235/7
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/235/7
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.22350007

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History

2023-10-20T09:53:11Z
Resource record created
2023-10-20T09:53:11Z
Created
2023-12-14T01:24:32Z
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