Classification of CCCP X-ray sources

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The Chandra Carina Complex Project (CCCP) provides a sensitive X-ray survey of a nearby starburst region over >1deg^2^ in extent. Thousands of faint X-ray sources are found, many concentrated into rich young stellar clusters. However, significant contamination from unrelated Galactic and extragalactic sources is present in the X-ray catalog. We describe the use of a Naive Bayes classifier to assign membership probabilities to individual sources, based on source location, X-ray properties, and visual/infrared properties. For the particular membership decision rule adopted, 75% of CCCP sources are classified as members, 11% are classified as contaminants, and 14% remain unclassified. The resulting sample of stars likely to be Carina members is used in several other studies, which appear in this special issue devoted to the CCCP.

Cone search capability for table J/ApJS/194/4/table5 (Classification quantities for CCCP sources)

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DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.21940004
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Provenance
Creator Broos P.S.; Getman K.V.; Povich M.S.; Townsley L.K.; Feigelson E.D.,Garmire G.P.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2011
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Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Cosmology; Interstellar medium; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics; Stellar Astronomy