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Catalog of 1600+ New Variables around V1821 Cyg in NGC 6871

<p>Utilizing TESS data, the author has screened a small sky region of a one-degree radius centered on the known $\delta$ Scuti star V1821 Cyg within the young open cluster NGC 6871. The selected samples had TESS magnitude values ranging from 6 to 16 mag, matching the TESS premium targets exhibiting good quality photometry and effective temperature between 10000 and 6000 K, roughly corresponding to main sequence stars of spectral types A to F. Among the 3600 candidate stars surveyed, 1530 were discovered to be new variables of types $\delta$ Scuti, $\gamma$ Doradus, Maia, eclipsing binary, rotational, and solar-like oscillators.</p>

opencc-by-4.0Nov 2023View details →
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NGC - Catalog

<p>NGC - Catalog from Carlos Toro and Sergio Barreiro P&eacute;rez for PRA1, matter&nbsp;Tipolog&iacute;a y ciclo de vida de los datos</p>

opencc-by-4.0Apr 2023View details →
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The NGC Catalog, an exercise of data collection for UOC

<p>This project aims to download the NGC object catalog using webcrapping techniques and save it as a CSV file. The accessed URL is</p> <p><a href="https://in-the-sky.org/data/catalogue.php?cat=NGC&amp;const=1&amp;obj1Type=0&amp;sort=0&amp;view=1&amp;page=x">https://in-the-sky.org/data/catalogue.php?cat=NGC&amp;const=1&amp;obj1Type=0&amp;sort=0&amp;view=1&amp;page=x</a></p> <p>with 1 to 79 pages. The downloaded contents for each item compund the catalog are: Name = Name in the catalog type = Object kind mag = Visual magnitude of the object dist = Distance from the earth (when available) constellation = Constellation where to find the object RA = RA coordinates of the object. DEC = DEC Coordinates of the object str_name = Other name from the object. object_image = The image of the object.</p>

opencc-by-4.0Apr 2023View details →
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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&lt;sub&gt;X&lt;/sub&gt;) of ~1 x 10&lt;sup&gt;30&lt;/sup&gt; 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&lt;sup&gt;h&lt;/sup&gt; 20&lt;sup&gt;m&lt;/sup&gt; 53&lt;sup&gt;s&lt;/sup&gt;, +37&lt;sup&gt;o&lt;/sup&gt; 46&#39; 18&quot; (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&lt;sup&gt;30&lt;/sup&gt; 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&lt;sup&gt;30&lt;/sup&gt; 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&amp;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&lt;sup&gt;-6&lt;/sup&gt;, 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&lt;sub&gt;h&lt;/sub&gt;. To investigate the validity of the sources, the authors also ran wavdetect with a threshold of 10&lt;sup&gt;-7&lt;/sup&gt; 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 &#39;T&#39; in this table (replacing the &#39;*&#39; symbol used in the original table). This table was created by the HEASARC in August 2015 based on the &lt;a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/ApJ/770/98"&gt;CDS Catalog J/ApJ/770/98&lt;/a&gt; files table1.dat and table2.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

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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 &gt;= 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&lt;sup&gt;29.5&lt;/sup&gt; - 10&lt;sup&gt;31.5&lt;/sup&gt; erg s&lt;sup&gt;-1&lt;/sup&gt;. 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 &lt;a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/539/A74"&gt;CDS Catalog J/A+A/539/A74&lt;/a&gt; file catalog.dat, the catalog of 1021 X-ray sources detected towards NGC 1893. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

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NGC 6357 Chandra X-Ray Point Source Catalog

This contains some of the results from the first high spatial resolution X-ray study of the massive star-forming region NGC 6357, which were obtained in a 38 ks Chandra/ACIS observation. Inside the brightest constituent of this large H II region complex is the massive open cluster Pismis 24. It contains two of the brightest and bluest stars known, yet remains poorly studied; only a handful of optically bright stellar members have been identified. The authors have investigated the cluster extent and initial mass function and detected ~800 X-ray sources with a limiting sensitivity of ~ 10&lt;sup&gt;30&lt;/sup&gt; erg s&lt;sup&gt;-1&lt;/sup&gt;: this provides the first reliable probe of the rich intermediate-mass and low-mass population of this massive cluster, increasing the number of known members from optical studies by a factor of ~ 50. The high-luminosity end (log L[2-8 keV] &gt;= 30.3 erg s&lt;sup&gt;-1&lt;/sup&gt;) of the observed X-ray luminosity function in NGC 6357 is clearly consistent with a power-law relation as seen in the Orion Nebula Cluster and Cepheus B, yielding the first estimate of NGC 6357&#39;s total cluster population, a few times the known Orion population. The long-standing L&lt;sub&gt;X&lt;/sub&gt; ~ 10&lt;sup&gt;-7&lt;/sup&gt; L&lt;sub&gt;bol&lt;/sub&gt; correlation for O stars is confirmed. Twenty-four candidate O stars and one possible new obscured massive YSO or Wolf-Rayet star are presented. Many cluster members are estimated to be intermediate-mass stars from available infrared photometry (assuming an age of ~ 1 Myr), but only a few exhibit K-band excess. The authors report the first detection of X-ray emission from an evaporating gaseous globule at the tip of a molecular pillar; this source is likely a B0-B2 protostar. NGC 6357 was observed on 2004 July 9 with the Imaging Array of the Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS-I) on board Chandra. Four front-illuminated (FI) CCDs form the ACIS-I, which covers a field of view (FOV) of ~ 17 by 17 arcminutes. The observation was made in the standard Timed Exposure, Very Faint mode, with 3.2 s integration time and 5 pixel by 5 pixel event islands. The total exposure time was 38 ks and the satellite roll angle was 289 degrees. The aim point was centered on the O3 If star Pis 24-1, the heart of the OB association Pismis 24. The Chandra observation ID is 4477. Data reduction started with filtering the Level 1 event list processed by the Chandra X-ray Center pipeline to recover an improved Level 2 event list. To improve absolute astrometry, X-ray positions of ACIS-I sources were obtained by running the wavdetect wavelet-based source detection algorithm within the Chandra Interactive Analysis of Observations (CIAO) package on the original Level 2 event list, using only the central 8 by 8 arcminutes of the field. The resulting X-ray sources were matched to the 2MASS point source catalog. The authors calculated the position offsets between 277 X-ray sources and their NIR counterparts and applied an offset of +0.02&quot; in right ascension (R.A.) and -0.33&quot; in declination to the X-ray coordinates. From an initial list of 910 potential X-ray sources, the authors rejected sources with a P&lt;sub&gt;B&lt;/sub&gt; &gt; 1% likelihood of being a background fluctuation. The trimmed source list includes 779 sources, with full-band (0.5 - 8.0 keV) net (background-subtracted) counts ranging from 1.7 to 1837 counts. The 779 valid sources were purposely divided by the authors into two lists: the 665 sources with P&lt;sub&gt;B&lt;/sub&gt; &lt; 0.1% make up the primary source list of highly reliable sources (Table 1 in the reference paper; sources with source_type = &#39;M&#39; in this table), and the remaining 114 sources with P&lt;sub&gt;B&lt;/sub&gt; &gt;= 0.1% likelihood of being spurious background fluctuations were listed as tentative sources in Table 2 of the reference paper (source_type = &#39;T&#39; in this table). The authors believe that most of these tentative sources are likely real detections. This table was created by the HEASARC in October 2007 based on the merger of the electronic versions of Tables 1 (Main Source Catalog) and 2 (Tentative Sources which were obtained from the ApJ website. To help distinguish from which original table entries in this Browse table come from, the HEASARC has created a parameter called source_type which is set to &#39;M&#39; for sources from Table 1 and to &#39;T&#39; for sources from Table 2. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

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NGC 2808 Chandra X-Ray Point Source Catalog

This table contains the sources detected in a Chandra X-ray observation of the Galactic globular cluster NGC 2808, as well as the corresponding XMM-Newton data for those sources which have XMM-Newton X-ray counterparts. Using new Chandra X-ray observations and existing XMM-Newton X-ray and Hubble Space Telescope far-ultraviolet observations, the authors aim to detect and identify the faint X-ray sources belonging to NGC 2808 in order to understand their role in the evolution of globular clusters. The authors classify the X-ray sources associated with the cluster by analysing their colors and variability. Previous observations with XMM-Newton and far-ultraviolet observations with Hubble are re-investigated to help identify the Chandra sources associated with the cluster. The authors compare their results to population synthesis models and observations of other Galactic globular clusters. NGC 2808 was observed with the Chandra X-ray Observatory Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer-Imager (ACIS-I) on 2007 June 19-21 (28 months after the XMM-Newton observation referred to the reference paper) for two distinct exposures of 46 and 11 kiloseconds. The authors detect 113 sources, of which 16 fall inside the half-mass radius of NGC 2808 and are concentrated towards the cluster core. This table was created by the HEASARC in February 2009 based on the electronic version of Table 1 from the paper which was obtained from the CDS (their catalog J/A+A/490/641 file table1.dat). This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

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NGC 6530 Chandra X-Ray Point Source Catalog

In a deep 60 ks Chandra ACIS-I X-ray observation of the very young (~ 1.5 - 2.0 Myr) cluster NGC 6530 on 2001 Jun 18-19, the authors have detected 884 X-ray point sources and argue that a very large fraction of them (90%-95%) must be pre-main-sequence (PMS) cluster members, mostly low-mass stars. This is a significant enlargement of the known NGC 6530 stellar population with respect to previous optical studies, including H-alpha surveys. They identify 220 X-ray sources with catalogued stars down to V = 17, while most unidentified sources have fainter counterparts. Moreover, they find an infrared counterpart in the 2MASS (CDS. No. &lt;II/246&gt;) Catalog for 731 X-ray sources. The optically identified cluster X-ray sources are found in a band in the H-R diagram above the main sequence, in the locus of 0.5 - 1.5 Myr PMS stars, with masses down to 0.5 - 1.5 solar masses (M_sun). The pointing direction for the Chandra observation was the NGC 6530 cluster center at RA = 18^h 04^m 24.38^s, Dec = -24^o 21&#39; 05.8&quot; (J2000.0). The PWDetect algorithm found 884 X-ray point sources in the ACIS-I image above a detection significance threshold chosen to ensure only 1 spurious detection on the average. The Sung et al. (2000, AJ, 120, 333; &lt;a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/AJ/120/333"&gt;CDS Cat. &lt;J/AJ/120/333&gt;&lt;/a&gt;) = SCB Catalog of optical objects against which the X-ray point source list was compared doed not cover the easternmost 2.25&#39; of the ACIS FOV (RAs later than 18^h 04^m 52^s), notice, which comprises about 13% of the ACIS FOV. There are 46 detected X-ray sources (5.2% of the total) in the area not covered by the SCB Catalog. A matching distance of 4 times the X-ray error radius or 2.0&quot; (whichever is greater) was used to identify optical counterparts to the X-ray sources, after a systematic shift between the X-ray and optical positions of -0.4&quot; and 1.84&quot; in RA and declination, respectively, was applied. The authors estimate that as many as 28 of their 220 optical identifications may be spurious, preferentially those in the outer parts of the FOV where the positional uncertainties are larger. There are 8792 &#39;good&#39; 2MASS sources in the ACIS FOV. A matching distance of 4 times the X-ray error radius or 1.5&quot; (whichever is greater) was used to identify 2MASS counterparts to the X-ray sources, after systematic corrections of 0.3&quot; and 1.75&quot; in RA and declination, respectively, were applied to the &#39;raw&#39; X-ray positions. There are 13 cases where there are two possible IR counterparts to a single X-ray source, and 2 cases where there are three possible IR Counterparts to a single X-ray source. (Notice that, in such cases, this table contains multiple entries, one for each counterpart, and hence there are 901 entries compared to 884 X-ray sources.) The authors conclude that the plausible number of spurious X-ray-2MASS identifications is between 30 and 50. Overall, there remain 146 X-ray sources with no optical or IR identification. This table was created by the HEASARC in December 2006 based on CDS table J/ApJ/608/781, the file table1.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

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NGC 752 XMM-Newton X-Ray Point Source Catalog

This table provides a list of X-ray sources detected in a ~50 ks XMM-Newton X-ray observation of the open cluster NGC 752. For the sources with 2MASS counterparts, the values of their magnitudes in the J, H and K bands are also given. Additionally, for the sources with a Chandra counterpart (within a search radius of 5 arcsec), the values of their Chandra source number (as given in the related Browse table NGC752CXO) are also given. Very little is known about the evolution of stellar activity between the ages of the Hyades (0.8 Gyr) and the Sun (4.6 Gyr). To gain information on the typical level of coronal activity at a star&#39;s intermediate age, the authors have studied the X-ray emission from stars in the 1.9 Gyr-old open cluster NGC 752. They analyzed a ~ 140 ks Chandra observation of NGC 752 and a ~50 ks XMM-Newton observation of the same cluster. They detected 262 X-ray sources in the Chandra data and 145 sources in the XMM-Newton observation. Around 90% of the catalogued cluster members within Chandra&#39;s field of view are detected in the X-ray observation. The X-ray luminosity of all observed cluster members (28 stars) and of 11 cluster member candidates was derived. These data indicate that, at an age of 1.9 Gyr, the typical X-ray luminosity L&lt;sub&gt;x&lt;/sub&gt; of the cluster members with masses of 0.8 to 1.2 solar masses is 1.3 x 10&lt;sup&gt;28&lt;/sup&gt; erg s&lt;sup&gt;-1&lt;/sup&gt;, which is approximately a factor of 6 times less intense than that observed in the younger Hyades. Given that L&lt;sub&gt;x&lt;/sub&gt; is proportional to the square of a star&#39;s rotational rate, the median L&lt;sub&gt;x&lt;/sub&gt; of NGC 752 is consistent, for t &gt;= 1 Gyr, with a decaying rate in rotational velocities v&lt;sub&gt;rot&lt;/sub&gt; ~ t&lt;sup&gt;-alpha&lt;/sup&gt; with alpha ~ 0.75, steeper than the Skumanich relation (alpha ~ 0.5) and significantly steeper than that observed between the Pleiades and the Hyades (where alpha &lt;0.3), suggesting that a change in the rotational regimes of the stellar interiors is taking place at an age of ~ 1 Gyr. NGC 752 was observed for 49 ks by the XMM-Newton EPIC camera on February 5, 2003 starting at 23:29:25 UT, and the nominal pointing was towards J2000.0 RA and Declination of (01:57:38, +37:47:60), thus the XMM-Newton field-of-view (FOV) includes the Chandra FOV. For the source detection, the authors used the PWXDETECT code developed at Palermo Observatory and derived from the analogous Chandra PWDETECT code based on wavelet transform analysis. This allows the three EPIC exposures (PN, MOS1 and MOS2) to be combined in order to gain a deeper sensitivity with respect to the source detection based on single images. There were 145 point sources detected in the energy band 0.5 - 2.0 keV. An extended source (not listed in this present table), very likely a galaxy cluster, is also visible in the EPIC data. The authors searched for 2MASS counterparts to the XMM-Newton sources using a search radius of 5 arcsec and found a counterpart for 38 sources. As for the Chandra data, all sources with a visible counterpart from DLM94 have also a 2MASS counterpart, so this leaves 15 XMM-Newton sources with a 2MASS counterpart and no counterpart in Daniel et al. (1994, PASP, 106, 281); of these, 3 were also detected by Chandra; of the other 12, 10 are outside the Chandra FOV, while two are within it (XMM-Newton sources 58 and 65). Source 65 was caught by XMM-Newton during the decay phase of a flare, which explains why it is not detected in the Chandra data. For source 58 there is no immediate explanation for this, since the light curve does not show evidence of a flare. No additional near-IR counterpart to the XMM-Newton sources was found within the Point Source Reject Table of the 2MASS Extended Mission. This table was created by the HEASARC in October 2008 based on the electronic version of Table 7 from the reference paper which was obtained from the CDS website, i.e., their catalog J/A+A/490/113 file table7.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

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NGC 1333 Chandra X-Ray Point Source Catalog

NGC 1333, a highly active star formation region within the Perseus molecular cloud complex, has been observed on 2000 July 12.96 - 13.48 with the ACIS-I detector on board the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. The aim point of the array was 3 29 06.1, +31 19 38 (J2000,0 RA and Dec), the satellite roll angle was 95.7 degrees, and the effective exposure time after removing time intervals contaminated by background flaring was 37.8 ks. In this image with a sensitivity limit in luminosity of ~10&lt;sup&gt;28&lt;/sup&gt; erg/s for X-ray sources at the 318 pc distance of NGC 1333, 127 X-ray sources were detected, most with sub-arcsecond positional accuracy. While 32 of these sources appear to be foreground stars and extragalactic background objects, 95 X-ray sources are identified with known cluster members. The X-ray luminosity function of the discovered young stellar object (YSO) population spans a range of log L&lt;sub&gt;X&lt;/sub&gt; ~= 28.0 - 31.5 erg s&lt;sup&gt;-1&lt;/sup&gt; in the 0.5 - 8 keV band, and the absorption column densities range from log N&lt;sub&gt;H&lt;/sub&gt; ~=20 to 23 cm&lt;sup&gt;-2&lt;/sup&gt;. Most of the sources have plasma temperatures between 0.6 and 3 keV, but a few sources show higher temperatures up to ~7 keV. Comparison with K-band source counts indicates that all of the known cluster members with K &lt; 12 and about half of the members with K &gt; 12 were detected. (K ~= 11, the peak of the K-band luminosity function, corresponds to 0.2 - 0.4 M_solar stars for a cluster age of ~1 Myr). Seven of the 20 known YSOs in NGC 1333 which are producing jets or molecular outflows were detected, as well as one deeply embedded object without outflows. No evident difference in X-ray emission of young stars with and without outflows is found. This present table contains X-ray, optical and near-infrared information on the 109 X-ray sources that were detected above a source significance threshold of 1 x 10&lt;sup&gt;-6&lt;/sup&gt; in any of 3 energy bands: soft: 0.5 - 2.0 keV, hard: 2.0 - 8.0 keV, or full: 0.5 - 8.0 keV, excluding 8 sources that were deemed to be spurious on visual examination of the images. The faintest on-axis source emerging from the wavelet detection procedure has 5 extracted counts, corresponding to a source of log L&lt;sub&gt;X&lt;/sub&gt; ~ 28.0 in the total (0.5 - 8.0 keV) band for a source with negligible interstellar absorption (A&lt;sub&gt;V&lt;/sub&gt; ~ 1) and a typical source spectrum of a kT ~ 1 keV thermal plasma. This limit increases to 28.6 (29.3) if the absorption is increased to A&lt;sub&gt;V&lt;/sub&gt; ~ 5 (10). The sensitivity decreases by a factor of 4 at the edge of the field compared to the central regions. 80 of the significant 109 sources (73%) have counterparts in a non-X-ray band. This table does not include 18 tentative X-ray sources listed in Table 3 of the reference paper that were found by the authors by searching for concentrations of photons spatially coincident with known sources from near-IR, mm/sub-mm, and radio catalogs of this region which did not reach the detection significance given above. Most of these tentative sources are believed to be real sources. This table was created by the HEASARC in March 2007 based on &lt;a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/ApJ/575/354"&gt;CDS catalog J/ApJ/575/354&lt;/a&gt; files table1.dat and table2.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

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NGC 6231 XMM-Newton X-Ray Source Catalog

This table contains the results of an X-ray campaign towards the young open cluster NGC 6231. The XMM-Newton observations, of a total duration of ~ 180 ks, reveal that NGC 6231 is very rich in the X-ray domain too. Indeed, 610 X-ray sources were detected in the present field of view, centered on the colliding wind binary HD 152248 in the cluster core (RA, Dec J2000.0 of 16 54 10.06, -41 49 30.1). The limiting sensitivity of this survey is approximately 6 x 10^-15&lt;sup&gt;erg/s/cm&lt;/sup&gt;2 but clearly depends on the location in the field of view and on the source spectrum. Using different existing catalogs, over 85% of the X-ray sources could be associated with at least one optical and/or infrared counterpart within a limited cross-correlation radius of 2.5 or 3-arcsec according to the optical/IR catalog used. The surface density distribution of the X-ray sources presents a slight N-S elongation. Once corrected for the spatial sensitivity variation of the EPIC instruments, the radial profile of the source surface density is well described by a King profile with a central density of about 8 sources per arcmin&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; and a core radius close to 3.1 arcminutes. The distribution of the X-ray sources seems closely related to the optical source distribution. The expected number of foreground and background sources should represent about 9% of the detected sources, thus strongly suggesting that most of the observed X-ray emitters are physically belonging to NGC 6231. Finally, beside a few bright but soft objects -- corresponding to the early-type stars of the cluster -- most of the sources are relatively faint (~5 x 10&lt;sup&gt;-15&lt;/sup&gt; erg/s/cm&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;) with an energy distribution peaked around 1.0 - 2.0 keV. The catalog of the 610 X-ray sources detected in the 30&#39;-diameter field of view of XMM-Newton is presented here, including the equatorial coordinates, logarithmic likelihoods and count rates for the three EPIC instruments and for various energy ranges, as well as the cross-identification of the X-ray sources with various optical/infrared catalogs (2MASS, GSC2.2, USNO B1.0, SSB06) and their most commonly used names (HD/HDE, CD, CPD, Segg., SBL98, Braes), with only the closest identifications being reported here. This table was created by the HEASARC in March 2007 based on &lt;a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/454/1047"&gt;CDS catalog J/A+A/454/1047&lt;/a&gt; files table3.dat and table6.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

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NGC 6357/Pismis 24 Chandra Point Source Optical/IR Identifications Catalog

Circumstellar disks are expected to evolve quickly in massive young clusters harboring many OB-type stars. Two processes have been proposed to drive the disk evolution in such cruel environments: (1) gravitational interaction between circumstellar disks and nearby passing stars (stellar encounters), and (2) photoevaporation by UV photons from massive stars. The relative importance of both mechanisms is not well understood. Studies of massive young star clusters can provide observational constraints on the processes of driving disk evolution. The authors investigate the properties of young stars and their disks in the NGC 6357 complex, concentrating on the most massive star cluster within the complex: Pismis 24. They use infrared data from the 2MASS and Spitzer GLIMPSE surveys, complemented with their own deep Spitzer imaging of the central regions of Pismis 24, in combination with X-ray data to search for young stellar objects (YSOs) in the NGC 6357 complex. The infrared data constrain the disk presence and are complemented by optical photometric and spectroscopic observations, obtained with VLT/VIMOS, that constrain the properties of the central stars. For those stars with reliable spectral types, they combine spectra and photometry to estimate the masses and ages. For cluster members without reliable spectral types, they obtain the mass and age probability distributions from R and I-band photometry, assuming these stars have the same extinction distribution as those in the &quot;spectroscopic&quot; sample. The authors compare the disk properties in the Pismis 24 cluster with those in other clusters/star-forming regions employing infrared color-color diagrams. The authors discover two new young clusters in the NGC 6357 complex. They give a revised distance estimate for Pismis 24 of 1.7 +/- 0.2 kpc. They also find that the massive star Pis 24-18 is a binary system, with the secondary being the main X-ray source of the pair. The authors provide photometry in 9 bands between 0.55 and 8 micron (&micro;m) for the members of the Pismis 24 cluster. They derive the cluster mass function and find that up to the completeness limit at low masses it agrees well with the initial mass function of the Trapezium cluster. They derive a median age of 1 Myr for the Pismis 24 cluster members. The R-band observations were performed on 2008 April 1 and 6, and the I-band observations were done on 2008 May 1, both using the VIMOS instrument on the VLT. The near-IR photometry in the J, H and K&lt;sub&gt;s&lt;/sub&gt; bands were taken from the 2MASS. The mid-IR photometry at 3.6, 4.5, 5.8 and 8.0 um were obtained withe the Spitzer IRAC camera, both from the GLIMPSE I survey and from deep observations of the central Pismis 24 region carried out by the authors on 2006 September 29. The X-ray observations were made by the Chandra ACIS-I instrument and previously published by Wang et al. (2007, ApJS, 168, 100: the HEASARC NGC6357CXO table). The X-ray sources were matched to sources detected in the VIMOS R and I bands based on positional coincidence, using a 1.5 arcseconds tolerance. The accuracy of the optical and X-ray positions was 0.6 and 1.0 arcseconds, respectively. Given the high space density of sources in the central regions of Pismis 24, there may be a substantial number (up to 1/6 of the sources) of &quot;false positives&quot;, according to the authors. This table contains the list of 643 optical/IR counterparts to the Chandra X-ray sources found by Wang et al. (2007) which were identified by the present authors: for 136 of the 779 X-ray sources, no counterparts were found. This table was created by the HEASARC in March 2012 based on &lt;a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/539/A119"&gt;CDS Catalog J/A+A/539/A119&lt;/a&gt; files table1.dat and table3.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

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Fornax A (NGC 1316) Chandra X-Ray Source Catalog

This table contains some of the results from a Chandra ACIS sub-arcsecond resolution X-ray observation of the archetypal merger radio galaxy NGC 1316 (Fornax A). The authors detect 81 point sources within the 25th magnitude isophotal ellipse D&lt;sub&gt;25&lt;/sub&gt; of NGC 1316 (L&lt;sub&gt;X&lt;/sub&gt; in the range of 2 x 10&lt;sup&gt;37&lt;/sup&gt; to 8 x 10&lt;sup&gt;39&lt;/sup&gt; ergs s&lt;sup&gt;-1&lt;/sup&gt;), with hard (kT ~ 5 keV) X-ray spectra, typical of X-ray binaries, and a spatial radial distribution consistent with that of the optical (i.e., stellar) surface brightness. In the reference paper, they derive the X-ray luminosity function (XLF) of these sources, correcting for the incompleteness at the faint end caused by the presence of the diffuse emission from the hot ISM in the central regions of NGC 1316 and by the widening of the Chandra point-spread functions at increasing distance from the aim point. With these corrections, the XLF is well reproduced by a single unbroken power law with a slope of -1.3 down to their threshold luminosity of ~ 3 x 10&lt;sup&gt;37&lt;/sup&gt; ergs s&lt;sup&gt;-1&lt;/sup&gt;. NGC 1316 was observed for 30 ks on 2001 April 17 (ObsID 2022), with the Chandra Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS). The authors used the back-illuminated (BI) CCD S3 (CCD ID 7) because of its sensitivity at low energies. To include NGC 1317 (6.3 arcminutes away from NGC 1316) in the same S3 chip, a small offset was applied to the SIM (Science Instrument Module) position. NGC 1316 was kept close to on-axis to achieve the best spatial resolution. To detect X-ray sources, the authors used WAVDETECT, a wavelet detection algorithm available in CIAO. They set the WAVDETECT significance threshold parameter to be 10&lt;sup&gt;-6&lt;/sup&gt;, which corresponds to 1 possibly spurious source, and the scale parameter to cover seven steps between 1 and 64 pixels. This made them sensitive to sources ranging from point-like to 32 arcseconds in size, and in particular accommodates the variation of the point-spread function (PSF) as a function of the off-axis angle of the sources. To extract source properties (such as count rates, spectra, etc.), the authors used the 95% encircled energy (at 1.5 keV) radius centered at the WAVDETECT centroid, with a minimum of 3 arcseconds to accommodate the radial variation of he PSF. Background counts were determined locally for each source from an annulus from 2 to 5 times the source radius, after excluding nearby sources. Extended sources were found at the locations of NGC 1316 and NGC 1317. In addition, the Chandra observations reveal 94 sources (the HEASARC notes that 95 are contained in this table), 83 of them in CCD S3. Of these, 81 sources (77 in S3 and 4 in S2) are within the D&lt;sub&gt;25&lt;/sub&gt; ellipse. The source density increases toward the center of NGC 1316, indicating that most of them are related to NGC 1316. Three sources are found within the D&lt;sub&gt;25&lt;/sub&gt; ellipse of NGC 1317, with the brightest, extended one at the center of NGC 1317. The list of detected sources also includes sources found on CCDs other than S3 (CCD number 7). After correcting for effective exposure and vignetting, the X-ray flux in the 0.3 - 8.0 keV band is calculated with an energy conversion factor (ECF) assuming a power-law source spectrum with a slope of 1.7 and N&lt;sub&gt;H&lt;/sub&gt; = 3 x 10&lt;sup&gt;20&lt;/sup&gt; cm&lt;sup&gt;-2&lt;/sup&gt;; ECF = 6.037 x 10&lt;sup&gt;-12&lt;/sup&gt; erg cm&lt;sup&gt;-2&lt;/sup&gt; s&lt;sup&gt;-1&lt;/sup&gt; ergs per 1 count s&lt;sup&gt;-1&lt;/sup&gt; for the back-illuminated (BI) chips and 9.767 x 10&lt;sup&gt;-12&lt;/sup&gt; ergs per 1 count s&lt;sup&gt;-1&lt;/sup&gt; for the front-illuminated (FI) CCD chips. With the adopted distance of 18.6 Mpc, the X-ray luminosities of the point sources range from ~ 2 x 10&lt;sup&gt;37&lt;/sup&gt; to ~ 8 x 10&lt;sup&gt;39&lt;/sup&gt; erg s&lt;sup&gt;-1&lt;/sup&gt;. This table was created by the HEASARC in July 2014 based on &lt;a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/ApJ/586/826"&gt;CDS Catalog J/ApJ/586/826&lt;/a&gt; file table1.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

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NGC 4214 Chandra X-Ray Point Source Catalog

This table contains a comprehensive X-ray point source catalog of the IAB(s)m galaxy NGC 4214 similar to the LMC, one of the nearest examples of a starburst galaxy with a substantial population of Wolf-Rayet stars, as part of the Chandra Local Volume Survey. The combined archival observations of this galaxy have an effective exposure time of 79 ks. When combined with the catalogs of sources in NGC 55 and NGC 2403 given in this same reference paper, and the authors&#39; previously published catalogs for NGC 300 (Binder et al. 2012, ApJ, 758, 15) and NGC 404 (Binder et al. 2013, ApJ, 763, 128), the CLVS contains 629 high-significance X-ray sources total down to a limiting unabsorbed luminosity of ~ 5 x 10&lt;sup&gt;35&lt;/sup&gt; erg s&lt;sup&gt;-1&lt;/sup&gt; in the 0.35-8.0 keV band in each of the five galaxies. In the reference paper, the authors present X-ray hardness ratios, spectral analysis, radial source distributions, and an analysis of the temporal variability for the X-ray sources detected at high significance. To constrain the nature of each X-ray source, they carried out cross-correlations with multi-wavelength data sets. They searched overlapping Hubble Space Telescope observations for optical counterparts to their X-ray detections to provide preliminary classifications for each X-ray source as a likely X-ray binary, background active galactic nucleus, supernova remnant, or foreground star. The authors utilized archival X-ray observations: NGC 4214 was observed by the Chandra X-Ray Observatory using the ACIS-S array on three occasions for a total of 79 ks: &lt;pre&gt; Obs. ID Date Eff. Exposure time (ks) 2030 2001 Oct 16 25 4743 2004 Apr 03 26 5197 2004 Jul 30 28 &lt;/pre&gt; The iterative source detection strategy that was used is described in Section 2.3 of Binder et al. (2012, ApJ, 758, 15). ACIS-Extract (AE) was run a final time on the source list that was produces after an initial run of wavdetect followed by several iterations of AE, and the Poisson probability of not being a source (pns) value was computed in each of the following nine energy bands: 0.5 - 8.0, 0.5 - 2.0, 2.0 - 8.0, 0.5 - 1.0, 1.0 - 2.0, 2.0 - 4.0, 4.0 - 8.0, 0.35 - 1.0 or 0.35 - 8.0 keV. To be included in the final NGC 4214 catalog, a source was required to have a pns value less than 4 x 10&lt;sup&gt;-6&lt;/sup&gt; in any of the nine energy bands. The final CLVS source catalog for NGC 2403 contains 116 sources. This table was created by the HEASARC in September 2015 based on machine-readable versions of those parts of Table 5 and 8 from the reference paper which pertained to the 116 high-significance (pns &lt; 4 x 10&lt;sup&gt;-6&lt;/sup&gt;) X-ray sources which were detected in NGC 4214. It does not include the 95 lower-significance sources in NGC 4214 which had 4 x 10&lt;sup&gt;-6&lt;/sup&gt; &lt; pns &lt; 1.0 x 10&lt;sup&gt;-3&lt;/sup&gt;, some of which are likely to be genuine X-ray sources. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

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NGC 3293 Chandra X-Ray Point Source Catalog

NGC 3293 is a young stellar cluster at the northwestern periphery of the Carina Nebula Complex that has remained poorly explored until now. The authors wanted to characterize the stellar population of NGC 3293 in order to evaluate key parameters of the cluster population like the age and the mass function, and to test claims of an abnormal initial mass function (IMF) and a deficit of &lt;= 2.5*M&lt;sub&gt;sun&lt;/sub&gt; stars. Thus, they performed a deep (71 ksec) X-ray observation of NGC 3293 with Chandra in which they detected 1026 individual X-ray point sources. These X-ray data directly probe the low-mass (M &lt;= 2*M&lt;sub&gt;sun&lt;/sub&gt;) stellar population by means of the strong X-ray emission of young low-mass stars. The authors have identified counterparts for 74% of the X-ray sources in their deep near-infrared images. These data clearly show that NGC 3293 hosts a large population of ~ 1*M&lt;sub&gt;sun&lt;/sub&gt; stars, refuting claims of a lack of M &lt;= 2.5*M&lt;sub&gt;sun&lt;/sub&gt; stars. The analysis of the color-magnitude diagram suggests an age of ~8-10 Myr for the low-mass population of the cluster. There are at least 511 X-ray detected stars with color-magnitude positions that are consistent with young stellar members within 7 arcminutes from the cluster center. The number ratio of X-ray detected stars in the 1-2 solar mass range versus the M &gt;= 5*M&lt;sub&gt;sun&lt;/sub&gt; stars (known from optical spectroscopy) is well consistent with the expectation from a normal field initial mass function. Most of the early B-type stars and ~20% of the later B-type stars are detected as X-ray sources. These data shows that NGC 3293 is one of the most populous stellar clusters in the entire Carina Nebula Complex (only excelled by Tr 14, and very similar to Tr 16 and Tr 15). The cluster has probably harbored several O-type stars, the supernova explosions of which may have had an important impact on the early evolution of the Carina Nebula Complex. The authors used the Chandra X-ray Observatory to perform a deep pointing of the cluster NGC 3293 with the Imaging Array of the Chandra Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS-I). The 71-ksec observation was performed as an open time project with ObsID 16648 (PI: T. Preibisch) during Chandra Observing Cycle 15 in October 2015 (start date: 2015-10-07 T10:14:23, end date: 2015-10-08 T06:43:28). The imaging array ACIS-I provides a field of view of 17&#39; x 17&#39; on the sky (which corresponds to a scale of 11.3 x 11.3pc at the cluster distance of 2.3 kpc), and has a pixel size of 0.492&quot;. The aimpoint of the observation was RA(J2000) = 10&lt;sup&gt;h&lt;/sup&gt; 35&lt;sup&gt;m&lt;/sup&gt; 50.07&lt;sup&gt;s&lt;/sup&gt;, Dec(J2000) = -58&lt;sup&gt;o&lt;/sup&gt; 14&#39; 00&quot;, which is close to the optical center of the cluster (see Fig. 1 in the reference paper). The pointing roll angle (i.e., the orientation of the detector with respect to the celestial North direction) was 140.19&lt;sup&gt;o&lt;/sup&gt;. In addition to ACIS-I, one CCD detector (CCD 7 = S3) of the spectroscopic array ACIS-S was also operational during this pointing. It covers an 8.3&#39; x 8.3&#39; area on the sky southwest of the cluster center. While the ACIS-I chips are front-illuminated (FI), the S3 chip is back-illuminated (BI), and thus its response extends to energies below that accessible by the FI chips. This causes a substantially higher level of background in the S3 chip. Furthermore, the PSF is seriously degraded at the rather large off-axis angles of the S3 chip. These two effects led to a considerably higher detection limit for point sources in the area covered by the S3 chip compared to the region covered by the ACIS-I array. Nevertheless, the S3 data were included in the data analysis and source detection, and contributed four point sources to the total source list. At the distance of 2.3 kpc, the expected ACIS point source sensitivity limit for a three-count detection on-axis in a 71-ks observation corresponds to a minimum X-ray luminosity of L&lt;sub&gt;x&lt;/sub&gt; ~ 10&lt;sup&gt;29.7&lt;/sup&gt; erg s&lt;sup&gt;-1&lt;/sup&gt; in the 0.5-8.0 keV energy band, assuming an extinction of A&lt;sub&gt;V&lt;/sub&gt; ~ 1 mag (N&lt;sub&gt;H&lt;/sub&gt; ~ 2 x 10&lt;sup&gt;21&lt;/sup&gt; cm&lt;sup&gt;-2&lt;/sup&gt;) typical for the stars in the central region of NGC 3293, and a thermal plasma with kT = 1 keV (which is a typical value for young stars). Using the empirical relation between X-ray luminosity and stellar mass and the temporal evolution of X-ray luminosity from the sample of young stars in the Orion Nebula Cluster, which was very well studied in the Chandra Orion Ultradeep Project (Preibisch et al. 2005, ApJS, 160, 401; Preibisch &amp; Feigelson 2005, ApJS, 160, 390), the authors expected to detect ~90% of the ~ 1*M&lt;sub&gt;sun&lt;/sub&gt; stars in the central region of the young cluster NGC 3293. The X-ray properties of the 97 B-type stars in the ACIS-

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NGC 4649 Chandra X-Ray Point Source Catalog 2

This table contains the main X-ray source catalog for the Chandra monitoring observations of the 16.5-Mpc distant elliptical galaxy, NGC 4649. The galaxy has been observed with Chandra ACIS-S3 in six separate pointings, reaching a total exposure of 299 ks. There are 501 X-ray sources detected in the 0.3-8.0 keV band in the merged observation or in one of the six individual observations; 399 sources are located within the D&lt;sub&gt;25&lt;/sub&gt; ellipse. The observed 0.3-8.0 keV luminosities of these 501 sources range from 9.3 x 10&lt;sup&gt;36&lt;/sup&gt; erg s&lt;sup&gt;-1&lt;/sup&gt; to 5.4 x 10&lt;sup&gt;39&lt;/sup&gt; erg s&lt;sup&gt;-1&lt;/sup&gt;. The 90% detection completeness limit within the D&lt;sub&gt;25&lt;/sub&gt; ellipse is 5.5 x 10&lt;sup&gt;37&lt;/sup&gt; erg s&lt;sup&gt;-1&lt;/sup&gt;. Based on the surface density of background active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and the detection completeness, we expect ~ 45 background AGNs among the catalog sources (~ 15 within the D&lt;sub&gt;25&lt;/sub&gt; ellipse). There are nine sources with luminosities greater than 10&lt;sup&gt;39&lt;/sup&gt; erg s&lt;sup&gt;-1&lt;/sup&gt;, which are candidates for ultraluminous X-ray sources. The nuclear source of NGC 4649 is a low-luminosity AGN, with an intrinsic 2.0-8.0 keV X-ray luminosity of 1.5 x 10&lt;sup&gt;38&lt;/sup&gt; erg s&lt;sup&gt;-1&lt;/sup&gt;. The X-ray colors suggest that the majority of the catalog sources are low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs). The authors find that 164 of the 501 X-ray sources show long-term variability, indicating that they are accreting compact objects, and discover four transient candidates and another four potential transients. They also identify 173 X-ray sources (141 within the D&lt;sub&gt;25&lt;/sub&gt; ellipse) that are associated with globular clusters (GCs) based on Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based data; these LMXBs tend to be hosted by red GCs. Although NGC 4649 has a much larger population of X-ray sources than the structurally similar early-type galaxies, NGC 3379 and NGC 4278, the X-ray source properties are comparable in all three systems. This HEASARC table contains the main Chandra source catalog of the basic properties of the 501 X-ray detected sources (Table 3 in the reference paper which includes both sources detected in the merged X-ray image as well as a number only detected in the individual observations), and also the information on source counts, hardness ratios and soft and hard X-ray colors in the merged observation for the same 501 X-ray detected sources (Table 4 in the reference paper). It does not contain the information on source counts, hardness ratios and soft and hard X-ray colors for these same sources in the six individual observations that were contained in Tables 5 - 10 of the reference paper. This table was created by the HEASARC in March 2013 based on the electronic version of Tables 3 and 4 from the reference paper which were obtained from the ApJS website.. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

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NGC 2808 XMM-Newton X-Ray Point Source Catalog

Galactic globular clusters harbor binary systems that are detected as faint X-ray sources. These close binaries are thought to play an important role in the stability of the clusters by liberating energy and delaying the inevitable core collapse of globular clusters. The inventory of close binaries and their identification is therefore essential. This table contains some of the results, namely an X-ray source catalog, from XMM-Newton observations of the Galactic globular cluster NGC 2808. The authors use X-ray spectral and variability analysis combined with ultraviolet observations made with the XMM-Newton optical monitor and published data from the Hubble Space Telescope to identify sources associated with the clusters. They compare the results of their observations with estimates from population synthesis models. Five sources out of 96 X-ray sources detected above 4-sigma significance are likely to be related to NGC 2808. The authors find one quiescent neutron star low-mass X-ray binary candidate in the core of NGC 2808, and propose that the majority of the central sources in NGC 2808 are cataclysmic variables. An estimation leads to 20 +/- 10 cataclysmic variables with luminosity above 4.25 x 10&lt;sup&gt;31&lt;/sup&gt; erg s&lt;sup&gt;-1&lt;/sup&gt;. Millisecond pulsars could also be present in the core of NGC 2808, and some sources outside the half-mass radius could possibly be linked to the cluster. NGC 2808 was observed on February 1st 2005, for 41.8 kiloseconds (ks) with the three European Photon Imaging Cameras (EPIC MOS1, MOS2 and pn) on board the XMM-Newton observatory, in imaging mode, using a full frame window and a medium filter. This table was created by the HEASARC in February 2009 based on the electronic version of Table 2 from the paper which was obtained from the CDS (their catalog J/A+A/480/397 file table2.dat). This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

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NGC 1512/NGC 1510 XMM-Newton X-Ray Point Source Catalog

The galaxy NGC 1512 is interacting with the smaller galaxy NGC 1510 and shows a peculiar morphology, characterized by two extended arms immersed in an HI disc whose size is about four times larger than the optical diameter of NGC 1512. The authors have performed the first deep X-ray observation of the galaxies NGC 1512 and NGC 1510 with XMM-Newton to gain information on the population of X-ray sources and diffuse emission in this system of interacting galaxies. They have identified and classified the sources detected in the XMM-Newton field of view by means of spectral analysis, hardness-ratios calculated with a Bayesian method, X-ray variability, and cross-correlations with catalogs in optical, infrared, and radio wavelengths. They also made use of archival Swift (X-ray) and Australia Telescope Compact Array (radio) data to better constrain the nature of the sources detected with XMM-Newton. They detected 106 sources in the energy range of 0.2 - 12 keV, out of which 15 are located within the D&lt;sub&gt;25&lt;/sub&gt; regions of NGC 1512 and NGC 1510 and at least six sources coincide with the extended arms. They identified and classified six background objects and six foreground stars. In the reference paper, they discuss the nature of a source within the D&lt;sub&gt;25&lt;/sub&gt; ellipse of NGC 1512, whose properties indicate a quasi-stellar object or an intermediate ultra-luminous X-ray source. Taking into account the contribution of low-mass X-ray binaries and active galactic nuclei, the number of high-mass X-ray binaries detected within the D&lt;sub&gt;25&lt;/sub&gt; region of NGC 1512 is consistent with the star formation rate obtained in previous works based on radio, infrared optical, and UV wavelengths. The authors detected diffuse X-ray emission from the interior region of NGC 1512 with a plasma temperature of kT = 0.68(0.31-0.87) keV and a 0.3 - 10 keV X-ray luminosity of 1.3E+38erg/s, after correcting for unresolved discrete sources. The galaxy pair NGC 1512/1510 was observed with XMM-Newton (ObsID: 0693160101) between 2012 June 16 (20:31 UTC) and 2012 June 17 (16:24 UTC) in a single, 63-ks exposure observation. The data analysis was performed through the XMM-Newton Science Analysis System (SAS) software (version 12.0.1). The observation was largely contaminated by high background due to proton flares. After rejecting time intervals affected by high background, the net good exposure time was reduced to 26.0 ks for PN, 39.8 ks for the MOS1 and 34.8 ks for the MOS2. For each instrument, the data were divided into five energy bands: &lt;pre&gt; B&lt;sub&gt;1&lt;/sub&gt; : 0.2 - 0.5 keV B&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt; : 0.5 - 1.0 keV B&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt; : 1.0 - 2.0 keV B&lt;sub&gt;4&lt;/sub&gt; : 2.0 - 4.5 keV B&lt;sub&gt;5&lt;/sub&gt; : 4.5 - 12.0 keV &lt;/pre&gt; For the PN, data were filtered to include only single events (PATTERN = 0) in the energy band B__1, and single and double events (PATTERN &lt;= 4) for the other energy bands. The authors excluded the energy range 7.2 - 9.2 keV to reduce the background produced by strong fluorescence lines in the outer detector area. For the MOS, single to quadruple events (PATTERN &lt;= 12) were selected. The source detection procedure is described in Section 2.1 of the reference paper. In the final step, the authors adopted a minimum likelihood of L = 6. They removed false detections (artifacts on the detectors or diffuse emission structures) by visual inspection. They detected 106 total point sources in the NGC 1512/1510 field of view. This table was created by the HEASARC in July 2014 based on &lt;a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/566/A115"&gt;CDS Catalog J/A+A/566/A115&lt;/a&gt; files tableb1.dat and tableb2.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

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NGC 6530 XMM-Newton X-Ray Point Source Catalog

This table contains the results of a 20 ks XMM-Newton observation of the Lagoon Nebula (M 8). The EPIC images of this region reveal a cluster of point sources, most of which have optical counterparts inside the very young open cluster NGC 6530. The bulk of these X-ray sources are probably associated with low and intermediate mass pre-main sequence stars. One of the sources experienced a flare-like increase of its X-ray flux making it the second brightest source in M 8 after the O4 star 9 Sgr. The X-ray spectra of most of the brightest sources can be fitted with thermal plasma models with temperatures of kT ~ a few keV. Only a few of the X-ray selected PMS candidates are known to display H-alpha emission and were previously classified as classical T Tauri stars. This suggests that most of the X-ray emitting PMS stars in NGC 6530 are weak-line T Tauri stars. In addition to 9 Sgr, the EPIC field of view contains also a few early-type stars. This table contains information on 117 of the 119 X-ray sources (2 sources, a point source associated with 9 Sgr and an extended source associated with the Hourglass Nebula were excluded from this table by the authors) that were detected using the SAS source detection algorithms in the soft band (0.5 - 1.2 keV) of an EPIC observation of 9 Sgr which have either a combined likelihood &gt;= 20 and are detected in the individual images from all 3 EPIC instruments with -ln p_i &gt;= 3.0 or (in two cases) where clearly detected in 2 of the 3 instruments but fell outside of the FOV of the third. The faintest sources in this category have about 10-3 cts s&lt;sup&gt;-1&lt;/sup&gt; over the 0.5 - 1.2 keV band of the MOS instruments. Assuming a 1 keV thermal spectrum with a neutral hydrogen column density of 0.17 x 10&lt;sup&gt;22&lt;/sup&gt; cm&lt;sup&gt;-2&lt;/sup&gt;, the faintest sources correspond to an observed flux of about 8.9 x 10&lt;sup&gt;-15&lt;/sup&gt; erg cm&lt;sup&gt;-2&lt;/sup&gt; s&lt;sup&gt;-1&lt;/sup&gt; and an unabsorbed flux of 13.1 x 10&lt;sup&gt;-15&lt;/sup&gt; erg cm&lt;sup&gt;-2&lt;/sup&gt; s&lt;sup&gt;-1&lt;/sup&gt; in the 0.5 - 5.0 keV energy range. Note that the corresponding observed flux in the 0.5 - 1.2 keV soft band would be 5.2 x 10&lt;sup&gt;-15&lt;/sup&gt; erg cm&lt;sup&gt;-2&lt;/sup&gt; s&lt;sup&gt;-1&lt;/sup&gt;. 72 X-ray sources have a single optical counterpart from the Sung et al (2000, &lt;a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/AJ/120/333"&gt;CDS Cat. &lt;J/AJ/120/333&gt;&lt;/a&gt;) catalog or in the SIMBAD database within a radius of less than 9 arcsec. The average angular separation between the X-ray source and the optical counterpart is 4.1 +/- 2.1 arcseconds. 17 X-ray sources have two or more optical stars falling within the 9 arcsec radius. Seven of these sources have at least one known H-alpha emission star inside their error box. 28 sources do not have an optical counterpart in the catalogue of Sung et al. The authors have cross-correlated these sources with the Guide Star Catalog and, in most cases, they find one or several GSC objects inside the 9 arcsec radius. These optical counterparts are usually very faint (V or R &gt;=17) except for sources 91, 92 and 94 that have counterparts with R magnitudes 15.0, 14.6 and 13.3 respectively (note that these sources fall outside the area investigated by Sung et al.). Sources 93, 96, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102 and 112 have no GSC counterpart. Most of the objects in Table 3 are therefore X-ray sources with high X-ray to visual luminosity ratios. Given the galactic coordinates of NGC 6530 (l_II = 6.14, b_II = -1.38), the total galactic column density along this line of sight must be extremely large and the number of extragalactic sources in the soft detection energy band should be extremely low. This table was created by the HEASARC in March 2007 based on &lt;a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/395/499"&gt;CDS catalog J/A+A/395/499&lt;/a&gt; files table1.dat, table2.dat and table3.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

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NGC 2264 Chandra X-Ray Point Source Catalog 2

With the goal of improving the member census of the NGC 2264 star-forming region and studying the origin of X-ray activity in young pre-main sequence (PMS) stars, the authors analyzed a deep, 100 ks long, Chandra ACIS observation covering a 17&#39; x 17&#39; field in the 3 Myr old star-forming region (SFR) NGC 2264. The preferential detection in X-rays of low-mass PMS stars gives strong indications of their membership. The authors study X-ray activity as a function of stellar and circumstellar characteristics by correlating the X-ray luminosities, temperatures, and absorptions with optical and near-infrared (NIR) data from the literature. The authors detected 420 X-ray point sources in the observation above a 4.6-sigma significance threshold using the PWDetect software. Optical and NIR counterparts were found in the literature for 85% of the sources. The authors argue that more than 90% of these counterparts are NGC 2264 members, thereby significantly increasing the known low-mass cluster population by about 100 objects. Among the sources without counterpart, about 50% are probably associated with members, several of which are expected to be previously unknown protostellar objects. With regard to activity, several previous findings are confirmed: X-ray luminosity is related to stellar mass, although with a large scatter; L&lt;sub&gt;x&lt;/sub&gt;/L&lt;sub&gt;bol&lt;/sub&gt; is close to, but almost invariably below, the saturation level of 10&lt;sup&gt;-3&lt;/sup&gt;, especially when considering the quiescent X-ray emission. A comparison between classical T Tauri stars (CTTS) and weak-line T Tauri stars (WTTS) shows several differences: CTTS have, at any given mass, activity levels that are both lower and more scattered than WTTS; emission from CTTS may also be more time variable and is on average slightly harder than for WTTS. However, there is evidence in some CTTS of extremely cool, ~0.1 - 0.2 keV, plasma which the authors speculate is due to plasma heated by accretion shocks. The X-ray spectra of the 199 sources with more than 50 detected photons were analyzed by the authors. Spectral fits were performed with XSPEC 11.3 and with several shell and TCL scripts to automate the process. For each source, they fit the data in the [0.5 - 7.0] keV energy interval with several model spectra: one and two isothermal components (APEC), subject to photoelectric absorption from interstellar and circumstellar material (WABS). Plasma abundances for one-temperature (1T) models were fixed at 0.3 times the solar abundances, while they were both fixed at that value and treated as a free parameter for the two-temperature (2T) models. The absorbing column densities, N&lt;sub&gt;H&lt;/sub&gt;, were both left as a free parameter and fixed at values corresponding to the optically/NIR determined extinctions, when available: N&lt;sub&gt;H&lt;/sub&gt; = 1.6 x 10&lt;sup&gt;21&lt;/sup&gt; A&lt;sub&gt;V&lt;/sub&gt;. This table contains the X-ray, optical and NIR data for the 420 detected X-ray sources; it does not contain the master catalog of 1598 optical/NIR sources within the ACIS FOV which was presented in Table 3 of the reference paper, available at &lt;a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/455/903/table3.dat"&gt;https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/455/903/table3.dat&lt;/a&gt; This table was created by the HEASARC in March 2007 based on &lt;a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/455/903"&gt;CDS Catalog J/A+A/455/903&lt;/a&gt; files table1.dat, table4.dat and table6.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

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