Chandra Orion Ultradeep Project: Observations and Source Lists
Abstract
We present a description of the data reduction methods and the derived catalog of more than 1600 X-ray point sources from the exceptionally deep January 2003 Chandra X-ray Observatory observation of the Orion Nebula Cluster and embedded populations around OMC-1. The observation was obtained with Chandra's Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS) and has been nicknamed the Chandra Orion Ultradeep Project (COUP). With an 838 ks exposure made over a continuous period of 13.2 days, the COUP observation provides the most uniform and comprehensive dataset on the X-ray emission of normal stars ever obtained in the history of X-ray astronomy.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0410136,
title = {Chandra Orion Ultradeep Project: Observations and Source Lists},
author = {K. V. Getman and E. Flaccomio and P. S. Broos and N. Grosso and M. Tsujimoto and L. Townsley and G. P. Garmire and J. Kastner and J. Li and F. R. Harnden, and S. Wolk and S. S. Murray and C. J. Lada and A. A. Muench and M. J. McCaughrean and G. Meeus and F. Damiani and G. Micela and S. Sciortino and J. Bally and L. A. Hillenbrand and W. Herbst and T. Preibisch and E. D. Feigelson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0410136},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
52 pages, 11 figures, 12 tables. Accepted for publication in ApJS, special issue dedicated to Chandra Orion Ultradeep Project. A version with high quality figures can be found at http://www.astro.psu.edu/users/gkosta/COUP_Methodology.pdf