XBOOTES: NDWFS Bootes Field X-Ray Point Source Catalog

The XBootes table contains the X-Ray point source catalog from a Chandra survey of the 9 square degrees Bootes field of the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey (NDWFS). This XBootes survey consists of 126 separate contiguous ACIS-I observations each of approximately 5000 s in duration. These unique Chandra observations allowed the authors to search for large-scale structure and to calculate X-ray source statistics over a wide, contiguous field of view with arcsecond angular resolution and uniform coverage. Optical spectroscopic follow-up observations and the rich NDWFS data set will allow the authors to identify and classify these X-ray-selected sources. Using wavelet decomposition, they have detected 4642 point sources with n >= 2 counts. In order to keep their detections ~ 99% reliable, they have limited their list to sources with n >= 4 counts. For a 5000 s observation and assuming a canonical unabsorbed active galactic nucleus (AGN) type X-ray spectrum, a 4 count on-axis source corresponds to a flux of 4.7 x 10^-15 ergs cm^-2 s^-1 in the soft (0.5-2 keV) band, 1.5 x 10^-14 ergs cm^-2 s^-1 in the hard (2-7 keV) band, and 7.8 x 10^-15 ergs cm^-2 s^-1 in the full (0.5-7 keV) band. The full 0.5-7 keV band n >= 4 count list contained in this HEASARC table has 3293 point sources. In addition to the point sources, 43 extended sources (not included in this HEASARC table) have been detected, consistent with the depth of these observations and the number counts of clusters. Presented here in the X-ray point source catalog for the XBootes survey are the source positions, X-ray fluxes, hardness ratios, and their uncertainties, for the 3293 sources with >= 4 counts in the full band. This table was created by the HEASARC in February 2006 based on the machine-readable version of Table 3 in the above paper which was obtained from the electronic ApJ website. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

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Provenance
Creator Kenter et al.
Publisher NASA/GSFC HEASARC
Publication Year 2024
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Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics