Description
The Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC) and the molecular cloud (OMC) in its vicinity have been observed with the ACIS-I detector on board the Chandra X-ray Observatory with 23hr exposure in two observations, on 1999 October 12 and 2000 April 1. We detect 1075 X-ray sources, most with sub-arcsecond positional accuracy. Ninety-one percent of the sources are spatially associated with known stellar members of the cluster, and an additional 7% are newly identified deeply embedded cloud members.
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