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Description
In the first of two companion papers on the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC), the authors presented their analysis of a 63 ks Chandra HRC-I observation that yielded 742 X-ray detections within the 30' x 30' field of view. To facilitate their interpretation of the X-ray image, they compiled a multi-wavelength catalog of nearly 2900 known objects in the region by combining 17 different catalogs from the recent literature. They defined two reference groups: an infrared sample, containing all objects detected in the K band, and an optical sample comprising low-extinction, well-characterized ONC members. They showed for both samples that field object contamination is generally low. Their X-ray sources are primarily low-mass ONC members. The detection rate for optical sample stars increases monotonically with stellar mass from zero at the brown dwarf limit to ~100% for the most massive stars but shows a pronounced dip between 2 and 10 M<sub>sun</sub>. They determined L<sub>X</sub> and L<sub>X</sub>/L<sub>bol</sub> or all stars in their optical sample and utilized this information in their companion paper to study correlations between X-ray activity and other stellar parameters. In particular, the authors assembled an extensive catalog of known X-ray/optical/IR and radio objects that fell within the HRC FOV. In addition to their list of HRC sources and the Chandra source lists of Garmire et al. (2000, CDS Cat. <J/AJ/120/1426>) and Schulz et al. (2001, CDS Cat. <J/ApJ/549/441>), they considered 14 catalogs from recent publications, producing a database of nearly 2900 distinct objects reported in at least one of the studies considered. A full list of references is given in the first column of Table 2 of the reference paper, along with a concise classification of the work and the referenced table number(s) from the original work. The authors' ONC optical sample is comprised of stars in the HRC FOV for which they have a mass estimate, whose values of the visual absorption A<sub>V</sub> are less than 3.0, and which are either confirmed proper motion members or have unknown proper motion (see Section 3.4.1 of the reference paper). For the 696 stars of this optical sample, this HEASARC table (the full version of Table 4 of the reference paper) lists sky position, mass, age, rotational period, Ca II line equivalent width, HRC basal count rate (see Section 5 of the reference paper), X-ray luminosity, and L<sub>X</sub>/L<sub>bol</sub> (see Sections 4 and 5 of the reference paper). This table was created by the HEASARC in March 2007 based on the CDS table J/ApJ/582/382, file table4.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
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