1. The Chandra Source Catalog
- Author
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Elizabeth C. Galle, Arnold H. Rots, David A. Plummer, D. M. Hall, Aneta Siemiginowska, J. B. Miller, Jennifer Lauer, Francis A. Primini, Judy C. Chen, John D. Grier, John C. Houck, Vinay L. Kashyap, Giuseppina Fabbiano, Danny G. Gibbs, Michael S. Tibbetts, Ian N. Evans, Beth A. Sundheim, Joy S. Nichols, Nina R. Bonaventura, David W. Van Stone, Amy E. Mossman, John E. Davis, Brian L. Refsdal, S. L. Winkelman, Roger Hain, Panagoula Zografou, Kenny J. Glotfelty, Stephen M. Doe, Michael A. Nowak, Arik W. Mitschang, Jonathan C. McDowell, Peter N. Harbo, Douglas L. Morgan, Xiangqun, Margarita Karovska, C. S. Anderson, Michael L. McCollough, and Janet D. Evans
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Physics ,High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) ,Source data ,biology ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,biology.organism_classification ,Acis ,Field (geography) ,Set (abstract data type) ,Ancillary data ,Space and Planetary Science ,Range (statistics) ,Point (geometry) ,Spurious relationship ,Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) ,Remote sensing - Abstract
The Chandra Source Catalog (CSC) is a general purpose virtual X-ray astrophysics facility that provides access to a carefully selected set of generally useful quantities for individual X-ray sources, and is designed to satisfy the needs of a broad-based group of scientists, including those who may be less familiar with astronomical data analysis in the X-ray regime. The first release of the CSC includes information about 94,676 distinct X-ray sources detected in a subset of public ACIS imaging observations from roughly the first eight years of the Chandra mission. This release of the catalog includes point and compact sources with observed spatial extents, Comment: To appear in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 53 pages, 27 figures
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- 2010