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Description
This table contains the X-ray sources detected in the AEGIS-X survey, a series of deep Chandra ACIS-I observations of the Extended Groth Strip (EGS). The survey comprises pointings at eight separate positions, each with nominal exposure of 200 ks, covering a total area of approximately 0.67 deg<sup>2</sup> in a strip of length 2 degrees. In their paper, the authors describe in detail an updated version of the data reduction and point-source-detection algorithms used to analyze these data. A total of 1325 band-merged sources have been found to a Poisson probability limit of 4 x 10<sup>-6</sup>, with limiting fluxes of 5.3 x 10<sup>-17</sup> erg cm<sup>-2</sup> s<sup>-1</sup> in the soft (0.5 - 2 keV) band and 3.8 x 10<sup>-16</sup> erg cm<sup>-2</sup> s<sup>-1</sup> in the hard (2 - 10 keV) band. They present simulations verifying the validity of their source-detection procedure and showing a very small, <1.5%, contamination rate from spurious sources. Optical/NIR counterparts have been identified from the DEEP2, CFHTLS, and Spitzer/Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) surveys of the same region. Using a likelihood ratio method, they find optical counterparts for 76% of their sources, complete to R<sub>AB</sub> = 24.1, and, of the 66% of the sources that have IRAC coverage, 94% have a counterpart to a limit of 0.9 uJy at 3.6 um (m<sub>AB</sub> = 23.8). After accounting for (small) positional offsets in the eight Chandra fields, the astrometric accuracy of Chandra positions is found to be 0.8 arcseconds rms; however, this number depends both on the off-axis angle and the number of detected counts for a given source. This table was created by the HEASARC in February 2009 based on the electronic versions of Tables 9, 10 and 11 from the paper which were obtained from the Astrophysical Journal web site. It is also available from the CDS at <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJS/180/102">https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJS/180/102</a>. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
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