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WMAP Nine-Year Five-Band Point Source Catalog
The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) is designed to produce all-sky maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy. The WMAP 9-Year Point Source Catalog contained herein has information on point sources in five frequency bands from 23 to 94 GHz, based on data from the entire 9 years of the WMAP sky survey from 10 Aug 2001 0:00 UT to 10 Aug 2010 0:00 UT, inclusive. The 5-band search technique used in the first-year, 3-year, 5-year and 7-year analyses now finds 501 point sources, compared to 471 point sources found in the 7-year analysis and 390 sources found in the 5-year analysis. The 5-band search method is largely unchanged from the 7-year analysis (Gold et al. 2011, ApJS, 192, 15). This method searches for point sources in each of the five WMAP wavelength bands. The nine-year signal-to-noise ratio map in each band is filtered in harmonic space by b<sub>l</sub>/[(b<sub>l</sub>)<sup>2</sup> C<sub>l</sub>(cmb) + C<sub>l</sub>(noise)], where b<sub>l</sub> is the transfer function of the WMAP beam response, C<sub>l</sub>(cmb) is the CMB angular power spectrum, and C<sub>l</sub>(noise) is the noise power. The filtering suppresses CMB and Galactic foreground fluctuations relative to point sources. For each peak in the filtered maps that is > 5 sigma in any band, the unfiltered temperature map in each band is fit with the sum of a planar base level and a beam template formed by convolving an azimuthally symmetrized beam profile with a skymap pixel. (This method was previously used by Weiland et al. (2011, ApJS, 192, 19) for selected celestial calibration sources and is more accurate than the Gaussian fitting that was used for the seven-year and earlier point source analyses). The peak temperature from each beam template fit is converted to a source flux density using the conversion factor Gamma given in Table 3 of the reference paper. The flux density uncertainty is calculated from the 1-sigma uncertainty in the peak temperature, and does not include any additional uncertainty due to Eddington bias. Flux density values are entered into the catalog for bands where they exceed 2 sigma and where the source width from an initial Gaussian fit is within a factor of two of the beam width. A point source catalog mask is used to exclude sources in the Galactic plane and Magellanic cloud regions. This mask has changed from the seven-year analysis in accordance with changes in the KQ85 temperature analysis mask. A map pixel is outside of the nine-year point source catalog mask if it is either outside of the diffuse component of the nine-year KQ85 temperature analysis mask or outside of the seven-year point source catalog mask. The present mask admits 83% of the sky, compared to 82% and 78% for the previous 7-year and 5-year versions, respectively. The authors identify possible 5-GHz counterparts to the WMAP sources found by cross-correlating with the GB6 (Gregory et al. 1996, ApJS, 103, 427), PMN (Griffith et al. 1994, ApJS, 90, 179; Griffith et al. 1995, ApJS, 97, 347; Wright et al. 1994, ApJS, 94, 111; Wright et al. 1996, ApJS, 103, 145), Kuehr et al. (1981, A&AS, 45, 367), and Healey et al. (2009, AJ, 138, 1032) catalogs. A 5-GHz source is identified as a counterpart if it lies within 11 arcminutes of the WMAP source position (the mean WMAP source position uncertainty is 4 arcminutes). When two or more 5 GHz sources are within 11 arcminutes, the brightest is assumed to be the counterpart and a multiple identification flag is entered in the catalog. A separate 9-year CMB-free Point Source Catalog (available in Browse as the <a href="/W3Browse/wmap/wmapcmbfps.html">WMAPCMBFPS</a> table) has information on point sources in three frequency bands from 41 to 94 GHz: the CMB-free method identified 502 point sources in a linear combination map formed from 41, 61 and 94 GHz band maps using weights such that CMB fluctuations are removed and flat-spectrum point sources are retained. The two catalogs have 387 sources in common. As noted by Gold et al. (2011, ApJS, 192, 15), differences in the source populations detected by the two search methods are largely caused by Eddington bias in the five-band source detections due to CMB fluctuations and noise. At low flux levels, the five-band method tends to detect point sources located on positive CMB fluctuations and to overestimate their fluxes, and it tends to miss sources located in negative CMB fluctuations. Other point source detection methods have been applied to WMAP data and have identified sources not found by our methods (e.g., Scodeller et al. (2012, ApJ, 753, 27); Lanz (2012, ADASS 7); Ramos et al. (2011, A&A, 528, A75), and references therein). For more details of how the point source catalogs were constructed, see Section 5.2.2 of the reference paper. This table was last updated by the HEASARC in January 2012 based on an electronic versi
IRAS Point Source Catalog Redshift (PSCz) Catalog
The IRAS Point Source Catalog Redshift (PSCz) Survey consists of redshifts, infrared and optical photometry, and assorted other information for 18351 IRAS sources, mostly selected from the Point Source Catalog. The survey was designed to select almost all galaxies with flux brighter than 0.595 Jy at 60 microns (µm), over the 84% of the sky with extinction small enough that reliable and complete optical identification and spectroscopy was possible. Some of the sources are not galaxies and some are multiple entries for the same galaxy as described in the reference paper. There are in total 15,411 galaxies or possible galaxies, for which redshifts are available for 14,677. The galaxies without redshift are mostly distant or at low latitude, as described in the paper. Many of these galaxies have now been observed as part of the BTP project (Saunders et al 1999, astro-ph/9909174 "The Behind the Plane Survey"), and their redshifts were to be included in future revisions of this catalog. The full catalog for the PSCz Catalog contains more than 120 parameters and is available at the CDS in the directory <a href="http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/ftp/cats/VII/221/">http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/ftp/cats/VII/221/</a> as the files pscz.dat (18,351 sources in the main catalog) and psczcg.dat (60 additional sources close to the coverage gap). There is also a 'short' version of the catalog, psczvs.dat and psczcgvs.dat, containing 19 parameters, sufficient information for most studies. They correspond to the version 2.2. Many fields are taken directly from the IRAS Point Source Catalogue (CDS Cat. II/125). See the IRAS Explanatory Supplement (Beichman et al., 1988, NASAR, 1190, 1) for more information. If there are problems that cannot be resolved by careful reading of these notes or the accompanying paper, please contact Will Saunders <will@roe.ac.uk> or Will Sutherland <W.Sutherland1@physics.ox.ac.uk>. This table was created by the HEASARC in February 2014 based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/VII/221">CDS Catalog VII/221</a> files psczvs.dat (the 'Main' sample) and psczcgvs.dat (the 'Near-gap' sample), comprising the 'Short' version of the PSCz Catalog. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
NGC 6791 Chandra X-Ray Point Source Catalog
This table contains some of the results from the first X-ray study of NGC 6791, one of the oldest open clusters known (8 Gyr). This Chandra observation was aimed at uncovering the population of close interacting binaries down to an X-ray luminosity (L<sub>X</sub>) of ~1 x 10<sup>30</sup> erg/s (0.3-7 keV). The authors detect 86 sources within 8 arcminutes of the cluster center, including 59 inside the half-mass radius of 4.42 arcminutes. centered on 19<sup>h</sup> 20<sup>m</sup> 53<sup>s</sup>, +37<sup>o</sup> 46' 18" (J2000.0). They identify 20 sources with proper-motion cluster members, which are a mix of cataclysmic variables (CVs), active binaries (ABs), and binaries containing sub-subgiants. With follow-up optical spectroscopy, the authors confirm the nature of one CV. They also discover one new, X-ray variable candidate CV with Balmer and He II emission lines in its optical spectrum; this is the first X-ray-selected CV in an open cluster. The number of CVs per unit mass is consistent with the field, suggesting that the 3-4 CVs observed in NGC 6791 are primordial. The authors compare the X-ray properties of NGC 6791 with those of a few old open clusters (NGC 6819, M67) and globular clusters (47 Tuc, NGC 6397). It is puzzling that the number of ABs brighter than 1 x 10<sup>30</sup> erg/s normalized by cluster mass is lower in NGC 6791 than in M 67 by a factor ~3-7. CVs, ABs, and sub-subgiants brighter than 1 x 10<sup>30</sup> erg/s are under-represented per unit mass in the globular clusters compared to the oldest open clusters, and this accounts for the lower total X-ray luminosity per unit mass of the former. This indicates that the net effect of dynamical encounters may be the destruction of even some of the hardest (i.e., X-ray-emitting) binaries. The authors observed NGC 6791 with the Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS) on Chandra from 2004 July 1 20:51 UTC until July 2 10:49 UTC for a total exposure time of 48.2ks (ObsID 4510). They obtained low-resolution spectra of candidate optical counterparts to guide the classification of the X-ray sources. A total of 16 candidate counterparts brighter than V ~18.3 were observed with the FAST long-slit spectrograph on the 1.5m Tillinghast telescope on Mt. Hopkins on nine nights between 2005 June 7 to September 2 (coverage from 3480 to 7400 Angstrom and a 3 Angstrom resolution). Candidate optical counterparts fainter than V ~17 were observed with the fiber-fed multi-object spectrograph Hectospec on the 6.5m Multi-Mirror Telescope. A total of 16 candidate counterparts were observed on the nights of 2005 May 13 and July 4-6 (spectra that cover 3700 to 9150 Angstrom with a 6-Angstrom resolution). The authors performed source detections in broad (0.3-7.0 keV), soft (0.3-2.0 keV) and hard (2.0-7.0 keV) energy bands, also used in their Chandra study of M 67 (van den Berg et al. 2004, A&A, 418. 509), so as to facilitate comparison. The CIAO detection routine wavdetect was run for scales of 1.0 to 11.3 pixels, in steps increasing by a factor of sqrt(2), with the larger scales appropriate for large off-axis angles where the point-spread function (PSF) becomes significantly broader. The authors computed exposure maps for the response at 1 keV to account for spatial variations of the sensitivity. The wavdetect detection threshold was set to 10<sup>-6</sup>, from which the authors expect two spurious detections per detection scale (so 16 spurious detections in total) in the area that they consider here. Combination of the broad, soft, and hard-band source lists results in a master catalog of 86 distinct sources within 8 arcmin of the cluster center, of which 59 lie inside the half-mass radius r<sub>h</sub>. To investigate the validity of the sources, the authors also ran wavdetect with a threshold of 10<sup>-7</sup> or an expected number of spurious sources of 1.6. The 14 sources not detected in this run are marked with a value of the source_flag parameter of 'T' in this table (replacing the '*' symbol used in the original table). This table was created by the HEASARC in August 2015 based on the <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/ApJ/770/98">CDS Catalog J/ApJ/770/98</a> files table1.dat and table2.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
Cygnus OB2 Association XMM-Newton X-Ray Point Source Catalog
Cyg OB2 is one of the most massive associations of O-type stars in our Galaxy. Despite the large interstellar reddening towards Cyg OB2, many studies, spanning a wide range of wavelengths, have been conducted to more clearly understand this association. X-ray observations provide a powerful tool to overcome the effect of interstellar absorption and study the most energetic processes associated with the stars in Cyg OB2. The author analyses XMM-Newton data to investigate the X-ray and UV properties of massive O-type stars as well as low-mass pre-main sequence stars in Cyg OB2. Six XMM-Newton observations of the core of Cyg OB2 were obtained. In the analysis, the author paid particular attention to the variability of the X-ray bright OB stars, especially the luminous blue variable candidate Cyg OB2 #12. He found that X-ray variability is quite common among the stars in Cyg OB2. While short-term variations are restricted mostly to low-mass pre-main sequence stars, one third of the OB stars display long-term variations. The X-ray flux of CygO B2 #12 varies by 37%, over timescales from days to years, while its mean log L<sub>X</sub>/L<sub>bol</sub> amounts to -6.10. These properties suggest that Cyg OB2 wind. Two other X-ray bright O-type stars (MT91 516 and CPR2002A11) display variations that suggest they are interacting wind binary systems. This table lists the general properties of the X-ray sources detected in Cyg OB2 with the EPIC cameras onboard XMM-Newton as given in Table 2 of the reference paper. An additional list of the properties of the sources detected inside Cyg OB2 with the two UV filters of the OM instrument onboard XMM-Newton which was contained in Table 4 of the reference paper is not included herein. This table was created by the HEASARC in December 2011 based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/536/A31">CDS Catalog J/A+A/536/A31</a> file table2.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
M 51 Deep Chandra ACIS X-Ray Point Source Catalog
The authors obtained a deep X-ray image of the nearby galaxy M 51 using the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. Here the catalog of X-ray sources detected in these observations is presented, while an overview of the properties of the point-source population is provided in the reference paper. The authors find 298 sources within the D<sub>25</sub> radii (the apparent major isophotal galactic radii measured at or reduced to the surface brightness level mu<sub>B</sub> = 25.0 B-mag per square arcsecond) of NGC 5194 and NGC 5195, of which 20% are variable, a dozen are classical transients, and another half dozen are transient-like sources. The typical number of active ultraluminous X-ray sources in any given observation is ~5, and only two of those sources persist in an ultraluminous state over the 12 years of observations. Given reasonable assumptions about the supernova remnant population, the luminosity function is well described by a power law with an index between 1.55 and 1.7, only slightly shallower than that found for populations dominated by high-mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs), which suggests that the binary population in NGC 5194 is also dominated by HMXBs. The luminosity function of NGC 5195 is more consistent with a low-mass X-ray binary dominated population. This deep study of M51 is composed of 107 ks of archival Chandra observations, to which the authors added another 745 ks of observations. The Chandra ObsIDs and parameters of all of the observations used in this study (which span from June 2000 to October 2012) are given in Table 2 of the reference paper. All of the observations were made with the ACIS-S array. The authors used the ACIS Extract software package (AE) to perform the photometry. For each source, AE extracted a source region whose size and shape were based on the local PSF, and a background region whose size and shape were based on the size of the local PSF and the location of nearby sources. Source properties were then calculated in a standard manner. Of particular importance in this analysis is the prob_no_source parameter, which is the probability that one could measure the observed count rate in the absence of a source. The authors took a source to be significant only if this parameter was < 5 x 10<sup>-6</sup>. At this probability threshold, one would expect a single spurious source per field, or roughly 1.5 spurious sources within the D<sub>25</sub> regions. As they used the same value in their analysis of M83 (Long et al. 2014, ApJS, 212, 21, the source catalog from which is available in the HEASARC database as the <a href="/W3Browse/chandra/m83cxo.html">M83CXO</a> table), the two catalogs are directly comparable. This table was created by the HEASARC in January 2017 based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/ApJ/827/46">CDS Catalog J/ApJ/827/46</a> files table4.dat, table5.dat and table6.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
Lockman Hole Field XMM-Newton X-Ray Point Source Catalog
This table contains the results of a detailed X-ray spectral analysis of a sample of 123 X-ray sources detected with XMM-Newton in the Lockman Hole field. This is the deepest observation carried out as yet with XMM-Newton with more that 600 ks of good EPIC-pn data.There are spectra with good signal to noise (>500 source counts) for all objects down to 0.2 - 12 keV fluxes of 5 x 10<sup>-15</sup> erg/cm<sup>2</sup>/s (the flux limit is 6 x 10<sup>-16</sup> erg/cm<sup>2</sup>/s in the 0.5 - 2.0 and 2 - 10 keV bands). At the time of the analysis, the authors had optical spectroscopic identifications for 60% of the sources, 46 being optical type-1 AGN and 28 optical type-2 AGN. Using a single power law model, their sources' average spectral slope hardens at faint 0.5 - 2 keV fluxes but not at faint 2 - 10 keV fluxes. This table was created by the HEASARC in June 2007 based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/444/79">CDS Catalog J/A+A/444/79</a>, file table8.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
47 Tuc Globular Cluster Chandra X-Ray Point Source Catalog (2005 Version)
The authors have detected 300 X-ray sources within the half-mass radius (2.79') of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae in a deep (281 ks) Chandra exposure. They perform photometry and simple spectral fitting for our detected sources and construct luminosity functions, X-ray color-magnitude, and color-color diagrams. Eighty-seven X-ray sources show variability on timescales from hours to years. Thirty-one of the new X-ray sources are identified with chromospherically active binaries from the catalogs of Albrow and coworkers (2001, <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/ApJ/559/1060">CDS Catalog <J/ApJ/559/1060></a>). The authors estimate that the total number of neutron stars in 47 Tuc is of order 300, reducing the discrepancy between theoretical neutron star retention rates and observed neutron star populations in globular clusters. The data used in this paper are from the 2000 and 2002 Chandra observations of the globular cluster 47 Tuc. The 2000 observations, initially described in Grindlay et al. (2001, Science 292, 2290), were performed with the ACIS-I CCD array at the telescope focus, while the 2002 observations placed the back-illuminated ACIS-S aim point at the focus for maximum low-energy sensitivity. The authors combined the results from wavdetect source detection runs with a threshold probability of 1 x 10<sup>-5</sup>, in two energy bands (0.5 - 2.0 keV and 0.5 - 6.0 keV for the 2000 observations, and (0.3 - 2.0 keV and 0.3 - 6.0 keV for the 2002 observations), to make independent source lists for the 2000 and 2002 observations, given in Tables 2 and 3 of the reference paper, which have been combined in the present HEASARC table. A total of 146 sources were detected in this way in the 2000 observations (entries with dataset_year = 2000), while 300 sources were detected in the 2002 observations (dataset_year = 2002). A total of 143 of the sources were clearly detected in both observations, while only three of the sources from the 2000 observations were not detected in the 2002 observations. See also the related <a href="gc47tuccx2.html">2017 source catalog</a>. This table was created by the HEASARC in June 2007 based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/ApJ/625/796">CDS Catalog J/ApJ/625/796</a> files table2.dat, table3.dat, and (part of) table5.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
BeppoSAX Approved Pointings
The SAXAO database contains the list of the all accepted AO1/AO2/AO3/A04/AO5 SAX CORE and GO program proposals, approved for the first year of operations. The database also includes targets scheduled for the Science Verification Phase (SVP) (from launch, 30 April 1996, till August 1996). The CORE program includes proposals led by Principal Investigator belonging to Italian or Dutch institutions, to the Space Science Department of ESA or to the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestial Physics in Garching. Approximately 80 percent of the first year observing time is allocated to the CORE program. The remaining 20 percent of time for the first year operations is reserved for the GO program. For the AO2 60 percent is allocated to the CORE program and 40 percent to the GO. For the AO3 and AO4 50 percent is allocated to the CORE program and 50 percent to the GO. More information on the SAX mission is available at the following address <a href="http://www.asdc.asi.it">http://www.asdc.asi.it</a> and also <a href="https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/sax/saxgof.html">https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/sax/saxgof.html</a>. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
Spitzer South Ecliptic Pole MIPS 24 micron Point Source Catalog
The Spitzer/MIPS 24 and 70 μm imaging of an 11.5 square degree region near the South Ecliptic Pole (SEP) has been carried out in order to complement sub-millimeter wavelength observations (250-500 μm) of the same region of sky taken with the Balloon-borne Large Aperture Sub-millimeter Telescope (BLAST), with the goal of better characterizing the nature of sub-millimeter selected galaxies and their role in galaxy evolution. This field has also been extensively mapped at other wavelengths, and will be imaged from 100-500 μm as part of the Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey (HerMES). Source detection and photometry were performed using the APEX software within the MOPEX package. Source candidates with S/N > 5 and reduced chi-squared values less than or equal to three (97% of the sources) are considered reliable detections. The remaining source candidates were then inspected (see Scott et al. 2010 for details) and false positives were removed from the catalog. Some sources in the catalog are flagged as possible false positives; see the status field.
LALA Bootes Field Chandra X-Ray Point Source Catalog
This table contains the results of an analysis of a deep, 172 ks Chandra observation of the Large Area Lyman Alpha survey (LALA) Bootes field which was obtained with the Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS-I) on board the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. This is one of the deepest Chandra images of the extragalactic sky, with only the 2 Ms Chandra Deep Field North (CDF-N) and the 1 Ms Chandra Deep Field South (CDF-S) observations being substantially deeper. In this table, the X-ray source catalog obtained from this image is presented, along with some results from an analysis of the X-ray source counts and optical identifications. The X-ray image is composed of two individual observations obtained in 2002 and reaches 0.5 - 2.0 and 2.0 - 10.0 keV flux limits of 1.5 x 10<sup>-16</sup> and 1.0 x 10<sup>-15</sup> ergs/cm<sup>2</sup>/s, respectively, for point sources near the aim point. A total of 168 X-ray sources were detected: 160 in the 0.5 - 7.0 keV band, 132 in the 0.5 - 2.0 keV band, and 111 in the 2.0 - 7.0 keV band. Since X-ray source number 122 has two possible optical counterparts, it is listed twice, once for each counterpart, and the total number of entries in this table is this 169. The primary optical data are R-band imaging from the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey (NDWFS), with a limiting magnitude of R = 25.7 magnitudes, (Vega, 3-sigma detection level, and a 4" diameter aperture). Optical counterparts within 1.5" or the 3-sigma X-ray positional uncertainties, whichever was larger, were detected above this level in the R band for 144 of the 168 X-ray sources. At least 90% of the optical counterparts should be the correct matches, and, at worst, there might be ~14 false matches. This table was created by the HEASARC in March 2007 based on the CDS table J/AJ/127/213 file table1.dat, This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
Akari North Ecliptic Pole Deep Field Chandra X-Ray Point Source Catalog
This table contains results from the 300-ks Chandra survey in the AKARI North Ecliptic Pole (NEP) deep field. This field has a unique set of 9-band infrared photometry covering 2-24 micron from the AKARI Infrared Camera, including mid-infrared (MIR) bands not covered by Spitzer. The survey is one of the deepest ever achieved at ~15 micron, and is by far the widest among those with similar depths in the MIR. This makes this field unique for the MIR-selection of AGN at z ~1. The authors have designed a source detection procedure, which performs joint Maximum Likelihood PSF fits on all of their 15 mosaicked Chandra pointings covering an area of 0.34 square degrees. The procedure has been highly optimized and tested by simulations. A point source catalog with photometry and Bayesian-based 90%-confidence upper limits in the 0.5-7, 0.5-2, 2-7, 2-4, and 4-7 keV bands has been produced. The catalog contains 457 X-ray sources and the spurious fraction is estimated to be ~1.7%. Sensitivity and 90%-confidence upper flux limits maps in all bands are provided as well. In their study, the authors searched for optical MIR counterparts in the central 0.25 square degrees, where deep Subaru Suprime-Cam multi-band images exist. Among the 377 X-ray sources detected therein, ~80% have optical counterparts and ~60% also have AKARI mid-IR counterparts. The authors cross-matched their X-ray sources with MIR-selected AGN from Hanami et al. (2012, PASJ, 64, 70). Around 30% of all AGN that have MID-IR SEDs purely explainable by AGN activity are strong Compton-thick AGN candidates. The source catalog contained in this table uses an internal threshold of ML = 9.5 which corresponds to ML<sub>empir</sub> ~12 (see Sect. 4.3.3 of the reference paper for more details). In total, 457 sources are detected, of which 377 objects fall in the deep Subaru imaging region (shown in Figure 1 of the reference paper). This catalog is designed to identify X-ray emitting objects in the Chandra/AKARI NEP deep field. Together with the optimized cross-identification procedure, the clear advantage of the catalog is the very high reliability, while the catalog sacrifices completeness for objects with low counts (see Figure 9 in the paper). Only ~1.7% of the objects listed in the source catalog are expected to be spurious source detections. The two sources that have an ML-threshold in the 0.5-7 keV band below 9.5 originate from a 0.5-7 keV single-band source detection run. To quote similar ML values for all objects, the authors list the total 0.5-7 keV ML values from the joint 3-energy band source detection run. The listed counts, count rates, fluxes, and the corresponding uncertainties in the 0.5-7 keV band are taken from the single-band detection run. Considering the uncertainty in the astrometric calibration, all sources should be considered as possible X-ray counterparts that are within a radius of r<sub>match</sub> = sqrt(sigma<sub>total</sub><sup>2</sup>+sigma<sub>astro</sub><sup>2</sup>), with sigma<sub>total</sub> = 5 * sqrt(sigma<sub>sys</sub><sup>2</sup>+sigma<sub>stat</sub><sup>2</sup>) and sigma<sub>sys</sub> = 0.1 arcseconds and sigma<sub>astro</sub> = 0.2 arcseconds (astrometric uncertainty). The authors also created a low-probability source catalog (not contained in this present HEASARC table): they caution that, due to the significant number of spurious sources in the low-probability catalog, it should NOT be used to select X-ray sources or to increase the sample size of X-ray-selected objects. It can be of interest if the scientific goal requires one to EXCLUDE potential X-ray emitting objects from a sample with a high completeness, since, using this strategy, one accepts those objects that are excluded are not associated with an X-ray-emitting object. The low-probability source catalog (available at <a href="http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/ftp/cats/J_MNRAS/446/911/">http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/ftp/cats/J_MNRAS/446/911/</a> as the files lowpscat.dat.gz and lowpscat.fits) has a lower maximum likelihood threshold than the main source catalog (an internal threshold of ML = 5, corresponding to ML<sub>empir</sub> ~9.5). This catalog contains 626 detected sources, of which 506 are located within the deep Subaru imaging region. Based on their simulated data, the authors conclude that 19% of all the low-probability source catalog entries are false detections. Considering only the deep Subaru imaging area the spurious source fraction drops to 15%. When using information from this catalog, please cite the reference paper: Krumpe et al. (2015, MNRAS, 446, 911). This table was created by the HEASARC in August 2015 based on CDS table J/MNRAS/446/911 files mainscat.dat, the main source catalog. Some of the values for the name parameter in the HEASARC's implementation of this table w
Collinder 69 Cluster XMM-Newton X-Ray Point Source Catalog
This table contains some of the results from the first paper of a series devoted to the Lambda Orionis star-forming region, Orion's Head, from the X-ray perspective. The final aim of this research is to provide a comprehensive view of this complex region, which includes several distinct associations and dark clouds. The authors aim to uncover the population of the central, young star cluster Collinder 69, and in particular to find those diskless Class III pre-main sequence objects which have not been identified by previous surveys based on near- and mid-infrared searches, and to establish the X-ray luminosity function for the association. The authors have combined two exposures taken with the XMM-Newton satellite with an exhaustive data set of optical, near- and mid-infrared photometry to assess the membership of the X-ray sources based on different color-color and color-magnitude diagrams, as well as other properties, such as effective temperatures, masses and bolometric luminosities derived from spectral energy distribution fitting and comparison with theoretical isochrones. The presence of circumstellar disks is discussed using mid-infrared photometry from the Spitzer Space Telescope. This table contains the XMM-Newton X-ray point source catalog for all sources detected in the EPIC observations of the Collinder 69, East and West Fields (C69E and C69W), respectively, with maximum likelihood (ML) values > 15.0. A companion HEASARC Browse table COLL69OID contains optical and infrared data as well as membership information on counterparts to these X-ray sources. This table was created by the HEASARC in July 2011 based on the electronic versions of Tables 3 and 4 from the reference paper which were obtained from the CDS (their catalog J/A+A/526/A21 files table3.dat and table4.dat). This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
IRAS POSITION AND POINTING V1.0
This data presented with this data set includes: (a) The position of the satellite in its orbit about the Earth at 200 second intervals in heliocentric ecliptic rectangular coordinates (B1950), where the X axis points to the First Point of Ares. In addition an Earth ephemeris is also included, which was generated by Miles Standish at JPL using the information that was available in 1983 to best approximate the knowledge of the Earth's position that was used in the reduction of the IRAS data. Finally, the geocentric position of the satellite is calculated using the above information. (b) The IRAS Scan History File describes the pointing geometry and length of each survey-mode scan (by SOP OBS) over the entire mission.
Cep B/OB3 Star-Forming Region Chandra Point Source Optical/IR IDs Catalog
The Cepheus B (Cep B) molecular cloud and a portion of the nearby Cep OB3b OB association, one of the most active regions of star formation within 1 kpc, have been observed with the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) detector on board the Spitzer Space Telescope. The goals were to study protoplanetary disk evolution and processes of sequential triggered star formation in the region. Out of ~400 pre-main-sequence (PMS) stars selected with an earlier Chandra X-ray Observatory observation, ~95% are identified with mid-infrared sources and most of these are classified as diskless or disk-bearing stars. The discovery of the additional >200 IR-excess low-mass members gives a combined Chandra+Spitzer PMS sample that is almost complete down to 0.5 * M<sub>sun</sub> outside of the cloud, and somewhat above 1 * M<sub>sun</sub> in the cloud. The X-ray observations of the Cep B/Cep OB3b region and their data analysis are described in detail by Getman et al. (2006, <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/ApJS/163/306">CDS Cat. J/ApJS/163/306</a>, HEASARC CEPBOB3CXO table). The 30 ks exposure was obtained on 2003 March 11.51-11.88 with the Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS) detector on board the Chandra X-ray Observatory as part of the ACIS Instrument Team's Guaranteed Time Observations (ObsId No. 3502, P.I.: G. Garmire). The mid-IR observation of Cep B and Cep OB3b was obtained on 2007 February 18 with the IRAC detector on the Spitzer Space Telescope in the 3.6, 4.5, 5.8, and 8.0 micron channels. This was a General Observer project (program identification No. 30361; P.I.: J. Wang). This table contains the optical and infrared counterpart information on the 431 X-ray sources detected by Chandra. It does not contain the 224 IR-excess objects which were not detected as X-ray sources (listed in Table 3 of the reference paper) that are thought to be additional low-mass members of this complex. This table was created by the HEASARC in August 2011 primarily based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/ApJ/699/1454">CDS catalog J/ApJ/699/1454</a> files table.dat and table 2.dat which list the optical and infrared counterpart information on the 431 X-ray sources detected by Chandra. The names and positions of these X-ray sources were taken from the Getman et al. (2006, ApJS, 163, 306) Catalog, which is available as the HEASARC Browse table CEPBOB3CXO. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
Upper Sco XMM-Newton X-Ray Point Source Catalog
The authors studied the X-ray emission from young stars by analyzing the deep (a ~53 ks exposure centered at a J2000.0 RA and Dec of 16 14 00.0, -23 00 00 and a ~43 ks exposure at 15 56 25.0, -23 37 47) XMM-Newton observations of two regions of the Upper Scorpius (USco) subgroup of the Scorpius-Centaurus (Sco-Cen) association which is estimated to have an age of 5 Myr. Portions of the USco association were observed in the optical with the CTIO Curtis Schmidt telescope and the Danish 1.54m telescope. This table contains all the X-ray sources detected in the two XMM-Newton observations, as well as their near-IR counterparts from the 2MASS and DENIS catalogs, and their optical counterparts from the CTIO and Danish 1.54 m observations. Based on the near-infrared and optical photometry, 22 Upper Scorpius photometric members have been identified among the 224 detected X-ray sources. This table was created by the HEASARC in March 2007 based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/459/199">CDS catalog J/A+A/459/199</a> files tabled1.dat and table2.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
MSX6C Infrared Point Source Catalog
Version 2.3 of the Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX) Point Source Catalog (PSC), which supercedes the version (1.2) that was released in 1999, contains over 100,000 more sources than the previous version. The photometry is based on co-added image plates, as opposed to single-scan data, which results in improved sensitivity and hence reliability in the fluxes. Comparison with Tycho-2 positions indicates that the astrometric accuracy of the new catalog is more than 1'' better than that in Version 1.2. In addition to the Galactic plane, Areas Missed by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS), and the Large Magellanic Cloud, which were included in the previous catalog, Version 2.3 includes data from the Small Magellanic Cloud, eight nearby galaxies, and several molecular clouds and star forming regions.
COBE DIRBE Point Source Catalog
This table contains the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment (DIRBE) Point Source Catalog, an all-sky catalog containing infrared photometry in 10 bands from 1.25 microns to 240 microns for 11,788 of the brightest near and mid-infrared point sources in the sky. Since DIRBE had excellent temporal coverage (100-1900 independent measurements per object during the 10 month cryogenic mission in 1989 to 1990), the catalog also contains information about variability at each wavelength, including amplitudes of variation observed during the mission. Since the DIRBE spatial resolution is relatively poor (0.7 degrees), the authors carefully investigated the question of confusion, and flagged sources with infrared-bright companions within the DIRBE beam. In addition, they filtered the DIRBE light curves for data points affected by companions outside of the main DIRBE beam but within the `sky' portion of the scan. At high Galactic latitudes (|b| > 5 degrees), the catalog contains essentially all of the unconfused sources with flux densities greater than 90, 60, 60, 50, 90, and 165 Jy at 1.25, 2.2, 3.5, 4.9, 12, and 25 microns, respectively, corresponding to magnitude limits of approximately 3.1, 2.6, 1.7, 1.3, -1.3, and -3.5. At longer wavelengths and in the Galactic Plane, the completeness is less certain because of the large DIRBE beam and possible contributions from extended emission. For each source, for comparison, the names of the sources in other catalogs, their spectral types, variability types, IRAS and 2MASS photometry, SIMBAD spectral types and published variability types, and whether or not the sources are known OH/IR stars are also included. Unlike the IRAS and 2MASS Catalogs, the DIRBE Point Source Catalog was not constructed by searching the DIRBE database with a point source template and extracting sources based on S/N and confirmation criteria. The DIRBE Catalog was constructed using a target sample list obtained from other infrared catalogs. Since DIRBE is much less sensitive per scan than IRAS or 2MASS, essentially all of the point sources with high S/N light curves in the DIRBE database are already contained in IRAS, 2MASS, and/or MSX. Thus, for simplicity, the authors used these previous catalogs to select a sample for the DIRBE Point Source Catalog. Their initial sample included a total of 21,335 sources; the final catalog contains 11,788 sources. The initial sample was selected from the IRAS Point Source Catalog (1988), the 2MASS Point Source Catalog (Cutri 2003), and/or the MSX Point Source Catalog Version 1.2 (Egan et al. 1999, A&A, 349, 236) that satisfied at least one of the following criteria: (a) 2MASS J magnitude <= 4.51 (F<sub>1.25</sub> >= 25 Jy), (b) 2MASS K magnitude <= 3.81 (F<sub>2.2</sub> >= 20 Jy), (c) IRAS or MSX F<sub>12</sub> >= 15 Jy, or (d) IRAS or MSX F<sub>25</sub> >= 27.5 Jy. The 1.25 and 2.2 micron limits are equal to the average 1-sigma sensitivity per scan in the raw DIRBE light curves of Smith et al. (2002, AJ, 123, 948), while the 12 and 25 micron limits are 0.5 times the average noise levels per scan in that study. These low limits were selected in order to avoid missing variable stars that may have been faint during the 2MASS, IRAS, or MSX mission and to improve the completeness at 3.5 and 4.9 micron. Since the filtering process improves the average per measurement uncertainty, a sensitive selection criterion is warranted to include as many sources as possible. There were 7872 sources with 2MASS J <= 4.51, 20,492 sources with 2MASS K <= 3.81, 4969 sources with IRAS F12 >= 15 Jy, 40 sources in the MSX IRAS Gaps survey with MSX F12 >= 15 Jy, 2753 sources with IRAS F25 >= 27.5 Jy, and 18 sources in the MSX IRAS Gaps survey with MSX F25 >= 27.5 Jy. Thus, the initial list is dominated by stars selected by the 2MASS criteria. These lists were merged together to make a single target list, containing 21,335 sources. To merge the 2MASS and IRAS/MSX lists, the authors used a 60 arcsecond matching radius. If more than one 2MASS source was within 60 arcseconds of the IRAS position, they assumed that the brightest K band source was the match. Note that the authors did not include sources in their input list based on their 60 and/or 100 micron IRAS flux densities, as extended emission from cirrus becomes more significant at these wavelengths. This means that the DIRBE Point Source Catalog is biased against very cold objects, such as galaxies and molecular clouds. Since the authors only used the point source catalogs of 2MASS, IRAS, and MSX for source selection, their sample is also biased against extended objects. Note also that they are only targeting sources bright enough to detect their possible variability in the DIRBE database (i.e., sources that may be detected in a single DIRBE scan at at least one DIRBE wavelength). By co-adding the full light c
NGC 1893 Chandra X-Ray Point Source Catalog
The outer Galaxy, where the environmental conditions are different from the solar neighbourhood, is a laboratory in which it is possible to investigate the dependence of the star formation process on the environmental parameters. The authors investigate the X-ray properties of NGC 1893, a young cluster (~ 1 - 2 Myr) in the outer part of the Galaxy (galactic radius >= 11 kpc), where they expect differences in the disk evolution and in the mass distribution of the stars, so as to explore the X-ray emission of its members and compare it with that of young stars in star forming regions near to the Sun. The authors analyze 5 deep Chandra ACIS-I observations with a total exposure time of 450 ks. Source events of the 1021 X-ray sources have been extracted with the IDL-based routine ACIS-Extract. Using spectral fitting and quantile analysis of X-ray spectra, they derive X-ray luminosities and compare the respective properties of Class II and Class III members. They also evaluate the variability of sources using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test and identify flares in the lightcurves. The X-ray luminosity of NGC 1893 X-ray members is in the range 10<sup>29.5</sup> - 10<sup>31.5</sup> erg s<sup>-1</sup>. Diskless stars are brighter in X-rays than disk-bearing stars, given the same bolometric luminosity. The authors find that 34% of the 1021 lightcurves appear variable and that they show 0.16 flares per source, on the average. Comparing their results with those relative to the Orion Nebula Cluster, they find that, after accounting for observational biases, the X-ray properties of NGC 1893 and the Orion stars are very similar. The authors conclude that the X-ray properties of stars in NGC 1893 are not affected by the environment and that the stellar population in the outer Galaxy may have the same coronal properties as nearby star-forming regions. The X-ray luminosity properties and the X-ray luminosity function appear to be universal and can therefore be used for estimating distances and for determining stellar properties. This table was created by the HEASARC in March 2012 based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/539/A74">CDS Catalog J/A+A/539/A74</a> file catalog.dat, the catalog of 1021 X-ray sources detected towards NGC 1893. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
LALA Cetus Field Chandra X-Ray Point Source Catalog
The 174 ks Chandra Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS) exposure of the Large Area Lyman Alpha Survey (LALA) Cetus field is the second of the two deep Chandra images on LALA fields. In their paper, the authors present the Chandra X-ray sources detected in the Cetus field, along with an analysis of X-ray source counts, the stacked X-ray spectrum, and the optical identifications. A total of 188 X-ray sources were detected: 174 in the 0.5-7.0 keV band, 154 in the 0.5-2.0 keV band, and 113 in the 2.0-7.0 keV band. The X-ray source counts were derived and compared with the 172 ks exposure LALA Bootes field (available as the LALABOOCXO table in Browse). Interestingly, the authors find consistent hard-band X-ray source density, but a (36 +/- 12)% higher soft-band X-ray source density in the Cetus field. The weighted stacked spectrum of the detected X-ray sources can be fitted by a power law with photon index Gamma = 1.55. Based on the weighted stacked spectrum, the authors find that the resolved fraction of the X-ray background drops from (72 +/- 1)% at 0.5-1.0 keV to (63 +/- 4)% at 6.0-8.0 keV. The unresolved spectrum can be fitted by a power law over the range 0.5-7 keV, with a photon index Gamma = 1.22. Optical counterparts are also presented for 154 of the X-ray sources, down to a limiting magnitude of r' = 25.9 (Vega), using a deep r'-band image obtained with the MMT. This table was created by the HEASARC in October 2010 based on the CDS table J/ApJ/669/765 file table1.dat This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
Herschel Stripe 82 Survey (HerS) Point Source Catalog
This study presents the first set of maps and band-merged catalog from the Herschel Stripe 82 Survey (HerS). Observations at 250, 350, and 500 micron (µm) were taken with the Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver (SPIRE) instrument onboard the Herschel Space Observatory. HerS covers 79 square degrees along the SDSS Stripe 82 to an average depth of 13.0, 12.9, and 14.8 mJy beam<sup>-1</sup> (including confusion) at 250, 350, and 500 um, respectively. HerS was designed to measure correlations with external tracers of the dark matter density field, either point-like (i.e., galaxies selected from radio to X-ray) or extended (i.e., clusters and gravitational lensing), in order to measure the bias and redshift distribution of intensities of infrared-emitting dusty star-forming galaxies and active galactic nuclei. By locating HerS in Stripe 82, the authors maximize the overlap with available and upcoming cosmological surveys. The band-merged catalog contains 3.3 x 10<sup>4</sup> sources detected at a significance of >~ 3 sigma (including confusion noise). The maps and catalog are available at <a href="http://www.astro.caltech.edu/hers/">http://www.astro.caltech.edu/hers/</a>. This table contains the first HerS band-merged point source catalog based on observations covering 79 deg<sup>2</sup> in the equatorial Stripe 82, spanning 13 to 37 degrees (0<sup>h</sup> 54<sup>m</sup> to 2<sup>h</sup> 24<sup>m</sup> ) in RA, and -2 to +2 degrees in Declination. The SPIRE beams are 18.1, 25.2 and 36.6 arcseconds at 250, 350 and 500 um, respectively. The band-merged catalog was constructed, after filtering, with DESPHOT (Roseboom et al. 2010, MNRAS, 409, 48), using 250-um sources (extracted with STARFINDER: Diolaiti et al. 2000, A&AS, 147, 335) as positional priors. The authors included sources with S/N greater than 3, whose completeness is estimated to be 50% (see Figure 7 of the reference paper), with a false detection rate less than 1%, and which had reasonable residuals (i.e., chi<sup>2</sup> < 10). Next, they identified obviously extended sources - 24 in total - where their extended nature resulted in them being broken up into multiple components by the filter, and removed them. This results in a catalog with 32,815 sources at 250 um, of which 13,300 and 3,276 have similarly defined 3-sigma detections at 350 and 500 um, respectively. The authors expect a false positive rate of 1.2 +/- 0.2 deg<sup>-2</sup> : thus, across the 79 deg<sup>2</sup> of HerS, they expect 96 +/- 16 spurious sources. The following local extended sources were removed: <pre> Name, RA, DEC NGC 0493,20.537458,0.945361 UGC 00890,20.283333,1.373333 UGC 00892,20.319166,-0.544491 NGC 0428,18.232125,0.981556 NGC 0799,30.551407,-0.100629 NGC 0800,30.549358,-0.130432 NGC 0450,18.876840,-0.860973 NGC 0497,20.599064,-0.875207 NGC 0867,34.269910,1.244202 UGC 01725,33.607833,1.469833 NGC 0570,22.244325,-0.948996 UGC 00711,17.153750,1.641667 UGC 00726,17.489833,-1.749694 NGC 0550,21.677292,2.022361 NGC 0585,22.9255833,-0.9333056 UGC 01123,23.533209,-1.032286 2MASX J01434929-0048547,25.955091,-0.815256 NGC 0856,33.409831,-0.717287 UGC 01698,33.082019,-0.811513 CGCG 385-007,17.256708,1.378194 UGC 00790,18.657792,1.180167 2MFGC 01002,19.930083,1.630778 2MFGC 00979,19.642792,1.747889 UGC 00847,19.768317,-0.138572 </pre> This database table was created by the HEASARC in March 2014 based on a FITS file (v2.0, uploaded Nov 18, 2013, of hers.catalogue_3sig250_no_extended.fits) containing the catalog which was obtained from the HerS web site, viz., <a href="http://www.astro.caltech.edu/hers/Catalogs.html">http://www.astro.caltech.edu/hers/Catalogs.html</a>. Some of the values for the name parameter in the HEASARC's implementation of this table were corrected in April 2018. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
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