English

The Chandra Deep Field-South Survey: 7 Ms Source Catalogs

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2017-01-04 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

We present X-ray source catalogs for the 7\approx7 Ms exposure of the Chandra Deep Field-South (CDF-S), which covers a total area of 484.2 arcmin2^2. Utilizing WAVDETECT for initial source detection and ACIS Extract for photometric extraction and significance assessment, we create a main source catalog containing 1008 sources that are detected in up to three X-ray bands: 0.5-7.0 keV, 0.5-2.0 keV, and 2-7 keV. A supplementary source catalog is also provided including 47 lower-significance sources that have bright (Ks23K_s\le23) near-infrared counterparts. We identify multiwavelength counterparts for 992 (98.4%) of the main-catalog sources, and we collect redshifts for 986 of these sources, including 653 spectroscopic redshifts and 333 photometric redshifts. Based on the X-ray and multiwavelength properties, we identify 711 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) from the main-catalog sources. Compared to the previous 4\approx4 Ms CDF-S catalogs, 291 of the main-catalog sources are new detections. We have achieved unprecedented X-ray sensitivity with average flux limits over the central 1\approx1 arcmin2^2 region of 1.9×1017\approx1.9\times10^{-17}, 6.4×10186.4\times10^{-18}, and 2.7×10172.7\times10^{-17} erg cm2^{-2} s1^{-1} in the three X-ray bands, respectively. We provide cumulative number-count measurements observing, for the first time, that normal galaxies start to dominate the X-ray source population at the faintest 0.5-2.0 keV flux levels. The highest X-ray source density reaches 50500\approx50\,500 deg2^{-2}, and 47%±4%47\%\pm4\% of these sources are AGNs (23900\approx23\,900 deg2^{-2}).

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1611.03501,
  title  = {The Chandra Deep Field-South Survey: 7 Ms Source Catalogs},
  author = {B. Luo and W. N. Brandt and Y. Q. Xue and B. Lehmer and D. M. Alexander and F. E. Bauer and F. Vito and G. Yang and A. R. Basu-Zych and A. Comastri and R. Gilli and Q. -S. Gu and A. E. Hornschemeier and A. Koekemoer and T. Liu and V. Mainieri and M. Paolillo and P. Ranalli and P. Rosati and D. P. Schneider and O. Shemmer and I. Smail and M. Sun and P. Tozzi and C. Vignali and J. -X. Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.03501},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

31 pages, 31 figures, 8 tables, ApJS in press, minor text updates; full-resolution PDF version and data products available at http://www.astro.psu.edu/users/niel/cdfs/cdfs-chandra.html

R2 v1 2026-06-22T16:48:48.399Z