Keywords :
galaxies active - galaxies: nuclei - surveys - X-rays: galaxies
Abstract:We present the EGIS-X survey, a series of deep Chandra ACIS-I observations of the Extended Groth Strip. The survey comprises pointings at eight separate positions, each with nominal exposure of 200ks, covering a total area of approximately 0.67deg^2^ in a strip of length 2 degrees. We describe in detail an updated version of our data reduction and point-source-detection algorithms used to analyze these data. A total of 1325 band-merged sources have been found to a Poisson probability limit of 4x10^-6^, with limiting fluxes of 5.3x10^-21^W/m2 in the soft (0.5-2keV) band and 3.8x10^-19^W/m2 in the hard (2-10keV) band. We present simulations verifying the validity of our source-detection procedure and showing a very small, <1.5%,
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