J/ApJS/165/173 Chandra sources in Galaxy central 150pc (Muno+, 2006)
A Chandra catalog of X-ray sources in the central 150 pc of the Galaxy.
Muno M.P., Bauer F.E., Bandyopadhyay R.M., Wang Q.D.
<Astrophys. J. Suppl. Ser., 165, 173-187 (2006)>
=2006ApJS..165..173M 2006ApJS..165..173M
ADC_Keywords: X-ray sources
Keywords: catalogs - Galaxy: center - X-rays: general
Abstract:
We present the catalog of X-ray sources detected in a shallow Chandra
survey of the inner 2°x0.8° of the Galaxy and in two deeper
observations of the Radio Arches and Sgr B2. The catalog contains 1352
objects that are highly absorbed (NH≳4x1022cm-2) and are
therefore likely to lie near the Galactic center (D∼8kpc), and 549
less absorbed sources that lie within 6kpc of Earth.
Description:
The central 300pcx125pc of the Galaxy has been observed on several
occasions with the imaging array of the Chandra Advanced CCD Imaging
Spectrometer (ACISI). The entire region was surveyed with overlapping
12ks observations (Wang et al., 2002Natur.415..148W 2002Natur.415..148W), and one
additional short observation was obtained centered on the
LMXB 1E 1740.72942.
File Summary:
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ReadMe 80 . This file
table2.dat 136 1899 *Catalog of Point Sources within 2 by 0.8 degrees
of the Galactic Center
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Note on table2.dat: We omitted two bright, previously known LMXBs from the table
(1E 1740.72942 and 2E 1743.12842), because they were badly saturated in our
survey images, and their positions and properties are reported elsewhere (e.g.,
Marti et al. 2000A&A...363..184M 2000A&A...363..184M; Porquet et al. 2000A&A...363..184M 2000A&A...363..184M).
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See also:
B/chandra : The Chandra Archive Log (CXC, 1999-)
J/ApJ/589/225 : Chandra X-ray sources toward Galactic Center (Feigelson+ 2003)
J/ApJ/613/1179 : X-ray sources in Galactic Center (Muno+, 2004)
Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 15 A15 --- CXOGC The IAU Designation (HHMMSS.s+DDMMSS, J2000)
17- 25 F9.5 deg RAdeg Right Ascension in decimal degrees (J2000)
27- 35 F9.5 deg DEdeg Declination in decimal degrees (J2000)
37- 39 F3.1 arcsec ePos Positional uncertainty
41- 44 I4 --- ObsID Observation identifier
46- 49 F4.1 arcmin Offset Angular offset from aimpoint
51- 55 F5.1 ks ExpTime Total live time
57- 62 F6.1 ct Cnet Net (0.5-8.0 keV) counts
64- 69 F6.1 ct e_Cnet Lower uncertainty on Cnet
71- 76 F6.1 ct E_Cnet Upper uncertainty on Cnet
78- 81 F4.2 --- Prob Chance of detecting source
83- 88 F6.2 --- HR0 ?=-9.00 Soft color [2.0-3.3]/[0.5-2.0] (1)
90- 95 F6.2 --- e_HR0 ?=-9.00 Lower uncertainty on HR0 (2)
97-102 F6.2 --- E_HR0 ?=-9.00 Upper uncertainty on HR0 (3)
104-109 F6.2 --- HR2 ?=-9.00 Hard color [4.7-8.0]/[3.3-4.7] (1)
111-116 F6.2 --- e_HR2 ?=-9.00 Lower uncertainty on HR2 (2)
118-123 F6.2 --- E_HR2 ?=-9.00 Upper uncertainty on HR2 (3)
125-132 E8.1 cm-2/s Flux Photon flux (0.5-8.0kev)
134-136 A3 --- Flags [cfls -] Notes about the source (4)
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Note (1): Colors are defined according to (H-L)/(H+L), where H and L are
the net counts in high and low energy bands, respectively.
* For the soft color, H is 2.0-3.3keV, and L is 0.5-2.0keV.
* For the hard color, H is 4.7-8.0keV, and L is 3.3-4.7keV.
Values are set to -9.00 if both the 90% confidence interval of both
bands contain zero counts.
Note (2): Values are set to -9.00 if the harder band is consistent with zero.
Note (3): Values are set to -9.00 if the softer band is consistent with zero.
Note (4): Sources are flagged as follows:
s = if there is short-term variability within an observation
l = if there was long-term variability when comparing the flux in
multiple observations
c = if the source was confused with its neighbors in some
observations so that the photometry was computed from a region
enclosing <90% of the flux in the PSF
f = if the source was only detected below 2keV
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History:
From electronic version of the journal
(End) Greg Schwarz [AAS], Patricia Vannier [CDS] 14-Dec-2007