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A Catalog of Chandra X-ray Sources in the Carina Nebula
- Publication Year :
- 2011
- Publisher :
- arXiv, 2011.
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Abstract
- We present a catalog of ~14,000 X-ray sources observed by the ACIS instrument on the Chandra X-ray Observatory within a 1.42 square degree survey of the Great Nebula in Carina, known as the Chandra Carina Complex Project (CCCP). This study appears in a Special Issue of the ApJS devoted to the CCCP. Here, we describe the data reduction and analysis procedures performed on the X-ray observations, including calibration and cleaning of the X-ray event data, point source detection, and source extraction. The catalog appears to be complete across most of the field to an absorption-corrected total-band luminosity of ~10^{30.7} erg/s for a typical low-mass pre-main sequence star. Counterparts to the X-ray sources are identified in a variety of visual, near-infrared, and mid-infrared surveys. The X-ray and infrared source properties presented here form the basis of many CCCP studies of the young stellar populations in Carina.<br />Comment: Accepted for the ApJS Special Issue on the Chandra Carina Complex Project (CCCP), scheduled for publication in May 2011. All 16 CCCP Special Issue papers are available at http://cochise.astro.psu.edu/Carina_public/special_issue.html through 2011 at least. 29 pages, 11 figures
- Subjects :
- Physics
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
Nebula
biology
Point source
FOS: Physical sciences
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
biology.organism_classification
Acis
Luminosity
Event data
Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Space and Planetary Science
Observatory
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
Data reduction
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Details
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c8506f049812986617e882b0da703b46
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1102.5121