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The 31 Deg$^2$ Release of the Stripe 82 X-ray Survey: The Point Source Catalog

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2016-02-17 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

We release the next installment of the Stripe 82 X-ray survey point-source catalog, which currently covers 31.3 deg2^2 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Stripe 82 Legacy field. In total, 6181 unique X-ray sources are significantly detected with {\it XMM-Newton} (>5σ>5\sigma) and {\it Chandra} (>4.5σ>4.5\sigma). This catalog release includes data from {\it XMM-Newton} cycle AO 13, which approximately doubled the Stripe 82X survey area. The flux limits of the Stripe 82X survey are 8.7×10168.7\times10^{-16} erg s1^{-1} cm2^{-2}, 4.7×10154.7\times10^{-15} erg s1^{-1} cm2^{-2}, and 2.1×10152.1\times10^{-15} erg s1^{-1} cm2^{-2} in the soft (0.5-2 keV), hard (2-10 keV), and full bands (0.5-10 keV), respectively, with approximate half-area survey flux limits of 5.4×10155.4\times10^{-15} erg s1^{-1} cm2^{-2}, 2.9×10142.9\times10^{-14} erg s1^{-1} cm2^{-2}, and 1.7×10141.7\times10^{-14} erg s1^{-1} cm2^{-2}. We matched the X-ray source lists to available multi-wavelength catalogs, including updated matches to the previous release of the Stripe 82X survey; 88\% of the sample is matched to a multi-wavelength counterpart. Due to the wide area of Stripe 82X and rich ancillary multi-wavelength data, including coadded SDSS photometry, mid-infrared {\it WISE} coverage, near-infrared coverage from UKIDSS and VHS, ultraviolet coverage from {\it GALEX}, radio coverage from FIRST, and far-infrared coverage from {\it Herschel}, as well as existing \sim30\% optical spectroscopic completeness, we are beginning to uncover rare objects, such as obscured high-luminosity AGN at high-redshift. The Stripe 82X point source catalog is a valuable dataset for constraining how this population grows and evolves, as well as for studying how they interact with the galaxies in which they live.

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@article{arxiv.1510.00852,
  title  = {The 31 Deg$^2$ Release of the Stripe 82 X-ray Survey: The Point Source Catalog},
  author = {Stephanie M. LaMassa and C. Megan Urry and Nico Cappelluti and Hans Boehringer and Andrea Comastri and Eilat Glikman and Gordon Richards and Tonima Ananna and Marcella Brusa and Carie Cardamone and Gayoung Chon and Francesca Civano and Duncan Farrah and Marat Gilfanov and Paul Green and S. Komossa and Paulina Lira and Martin Makler and Stefano Marchesi and Robert Pecoraro and Piero Ranalli and Mara Salvato and Kevin Schawinski and Daniel Stern and Ezequiel Treister and Marco Viero},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.00852},
  year   = {2016}
}

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accepted for publication in ApJ; 23 pages (emulateapj)