- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/chandfs2ms
- Title:
- Chandra Deep Field South 2-Megasecond Catalog
- Short Name:
- CHANDFS2MS
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This table contains point-source catalogs for the ~2 Ms exposure of the Chandra Deep Field-South (CDF-S) this is one of the two most sensitive X-ray surveys ever performed. The survey covers an area of ~436 arcmin<sup>2</sup> and reaches on-axis sensitivity limits of ~1.9 x 10<sup>-17</sup> and ~1.3 x 10<sup>-16</sup> erg cm<sup>-2</sup> s<sup>-1</sup> for the 0.5-2.0 and 2-8 keV bands, respectively. Four hundred and sixty-two X-ray point sources (source_sample = 'Main CDF-S' in this table) are detected in at least one of three X-ray bands that were searched; 135 of these sources are new compared to the previous ~1 Ms CDF-S detections. Source positions are determined using centroid and matched-filter techniques; the median positional uncertainty is ~0.36". The X-ray-to-optical flux ratios of the newly detected sources indicate a variety of source types; ~55% of them appear to be active galactic nuclei, while ~45% appear to be starburst and normal galaxies. This table contains, in addition to the main Chandra catalog, the supplementary catalog of 86 X-ray sources (source_sample = 'CDF-S + E-CDF-S' in this table) in the ~2 Ms CDF-S footprint that was created by merging the ~250 ks Extended Chandra Deep Field-South with the CDF-S; this approach provides additional sensitivity in the outer portions of the CDF-S. This table also contains a second supplementary catalog (source_sample = 'Optically Bright' in this table) of 30 X-ray sources which was constructed by matching lower significance X-ray sources to bright optical counterparts (R < 23.8); the majority of these sources appear to be starburst and normal galaxies. The total number of sources in this table, which contains the main and 2 supplementary catalogs, is thus 578. Optical R-band counterparts and basic optical and infrared photometry are provided for the X-ray sources in the main and supplementary catalogs. The authors also include existing spectroscopic redshifts for 224 of the X-ray sources. The average backgrounds in the 0.5-2.0 and 2-8 keV bands are 0.066 and 0.167 counts Ms<sup>-1</sup> pixel<sup>-1</sup>, respectively, and the background counts follow Poisson distributions. The effective exposure times and sensitivity limits of the CDF-S are now comparable to those of the ~2 Ms Chandra Deep Field-North (CDF-N). In their paper, the authors also present cumulative number counts for the main catalog and compare the results to those for the CDF-N. The soft-band number counts for these two fields agree well with each other at fluxes higher than ~2 x 10<sup>-16</sup> erg cm<sup>-2</sup> s<sup>-1</sup>, while the CDF-S number counts are up to ~25% smaller than those for the CDF-N at fluxes below ~2 x 10<sup>-16</sup> erg cm<sup>-2</sup> s<sup>-1</sup> in the soft band and ~2 x 10<sup>-15</sup> erg cm<sup>-2</sup> s<sup>-1</sup> in the hard band, suggesting small field-to-field variations. This table was created by the HEASARC in December 2008 based on the electronic version of Tables 2, 5 and 6 from the reference paper which were obtained from the ApJ web site. It was last modified by the HEASARC in July 2011. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
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- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/chandfs7ms
- Title:
- Chandra Deep Field-South 7-Megasecond X-Ray Source Catalog
- Short Name:
- CHANDFS7MS
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This table contains the X-ray source catalogs for the ~7 Ms exposure of the Chandra Deep Field-South (CDF-S), which covers a total area of 484.2 square arcminutes. Utilizing WAVDETECT for initial source detection and ACIS Extract for photometric extraction and significance assessment, the authors have created a main source catalog (entries with source_sample = 'M' in this HEASARC table) containing 1,008 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 entries with source_sample = 'S' in this HEASARC table) is also provided, including 47 lower-significance sources that have bright (K<sub>s</sub> <~ 23<sup>m</sup>) near-infrared (NIR) counterparts. The authors have identified multiwavelength counterparts for 992 (98.4%) of the 1,008 main-catalog sources, and they have collected redshifts for 986 of these sources, including 653 spectroscopic redshifts and 333 photometric redshifts. Based on the X-ray and multiwavelength properties, the authors have identified 711 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) from the main-catalog sources. Compared to the previous ~4 Ms CDF-S catalogs, 291 of the main-catalog sources are new detections. The observations utilized in this survey have achieved unprecedented X-ray sensitivity with average flux limits over the central ~1 arcmin<sup>2</sup> region of ~1.9 x 10<sup>-17</sup>, 6.4 x 10<sup>-18</sup>, and 2.7 x 10<sup>-17</sup> erg cm<sup>-2</sup> s<sup>-1</sup> in the three X-ray bands, respectively. In the reference paper, the authors 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 ~50,500 deg<sup>-2</sup>, and 47% +/- 4% of these sources are AGNs (~23,900 deg<sup>-2</sup>). The authors adopted a binomial no-source probability value, P<sub>B</sub> < 0.007 as the criterion to prune their initial candidate source list and generate a main source catalog, which includes 1,008 sources with a ~97% multiwavelength-identification rate. This adopted P<sub>B</sub> threshold will have inevitably rejected real X-ray sources. To recover some of these real sources, the authors created a supplementary source catalog that contains lower-significance X-ray sources that have bright optical/NIR counterparts; the chance of a bright optical/NIR source being associated with a spurious X-ray detection is quite small. A total of 47 candidate CDF-S sources having 0.007 <= P<sub>B</sub> < 0.1 are associated with bright, K<sub>s</sub> <= 23<sup>m</sup>, TENIS sources, where the false-match rate is only 1.7%, and these 47 sources constitute the supplementary catalog. A Galactic column density of N<sub>H,Gal</sub> = 8.8 * 10<sup>19</sup> cm<sup>-2</sup> along the line of sight to the CDF-S is assumed in this study. All quoted magnitudes are in the AB system. A cosmology with H<sub>0</sub> = 67.8 km s<sup>-1</sup> Mpc<sup>-1</sup>, Omega<sub>M</sub> = 0.308, and Omega<sub>Lambda</sub> = 0.692 (Planck Collaboration et al. 2016 values) is used to calculate luminosities. This HEASARC table contains the 1,008 sources from the main Chandra source catalog (these entries are identified by the HEASARC-created source_sample parameter being set to 'M' in this table) and the 47 lower-significance sources from the supplementary NIR-bright Chandra source catalog (these entries are identified by the HEASARC-created source_sample parameter being set to 'S' in this table). This table thus has 1,055 entries. This table was created by the HEASARC in March 2017 based upon electronic versions of Tables 4 and 5, the 'Main Chandra Source Catalog' and the 'Supplementary NIR-Bright Chandra Source Catalog', respectively, which were obtained from the ApJS website. Some of the values for the name parameter in the HEASARC's implementation of this table were corrected in April 2018. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/chanextdfs
- Title:
- Chandra Extended Deep Field South Survey Point Source Catalog
- Short Name:
- ChanDFSS
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This table contains the combined point-source catalogs for the Extended Chandra Deep Field- South (E-CDF-S) survey. The E-CDF-S consists of four contiguous 250 ks Chandra observations covering an approximately square region of total solid angle ~0.3 square degrees, which flank the existing ~1 Ms Chandra Deep Field-South (CDF-S). The survey reaches sensitivity limits of ~1.1 x 10<sup>-16</sup> and ~6.7 x 10<sup>-16</sup> ergs cm<sup>-2</sup> s<sup>-1</sup> for the 0.5-2.0 and 2-8 keV bands, respectively. 762 distinct X-ray point sources are detected within the E-CDF-S exposure; 589 of these sources are new (i.e., not previously detected in the ~1 Ms CDF-S). This brings the total number of X-ray point sources detected in the E-CDF-S region to 915 (via the E-CDF-S and ~1 Ms CDF-S observations). Source positions are determined using matched-filter and centroiding techniques; the median positional uncertainty is ~0.35". The basic X-ray and optical properties of these sources indicate a variety of source types, although absorbed active galactic nuclei (AGNs) seem to dominate. In addition to the main Chandra catalog, this table contains the supplementary source catalog with 33 lower-significance X-ray point sources that have bright optical counterparts (R < 23 mag). These sources generally have X-ray-to-optical flux ratios expected for normal and starburst galaxies, which lack a strong AGN component. The basic number-count results for the main Chandra catalog are in good agreement with the ~1 Ms CDF-S for sources with 0.5-2.0 and 2-8 keV fluxes greater than 3 x 10<sup>-16</sup> and 1 x 10<sup>-15</sup> ergs cm<sup>-2</sup> s<sup>-1</sup>, respectively. This HEASARC table contains 809 entries: 762 entries corresponding to the 762 sources listed in the main catalog (Table 2 of the published paper), 14 sources from the cross-field source list (Table 3) which give properties for sources which were detected in more than one observational sources, e.g. there are two entries for the source with source_number = 367, one entry coming from the main catalog, the other entry from the cross-field catalog, and 33 entries corresponding to the 33 sources in the supplementary, optically bright source catalog (Table 6). The HEASARC has created a new parameter called source_type to identify from which of these 3 original tables any given entry comes from; it is set to 'main', 'crossfield' and 'supplement' for entries from Tables 2, 3, and 6, respectively. This online catalog was created by the HEASARC in January 2006 based on machine-readable versions of tables 2, 3, and 6 from the paper which were obtained from the ApJ website. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/changbscat
- Title:
- Chandra Galactic Bulge Survey Full X-Ray Point Source Catalog
- Short Name:
- CHANGBSCAT
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This table contains the Chandra source list for the entire area of the Galactic Bulge Survey (GBS) based on the lists provided in Jonker et al. (2011, ApJ, 194, 18: Paper I) and Jonker et al. (2014, ApJS, 210, 18: Paper II). The previous version of this table, based solely on the data presented in Paper I, contained the Chandra source list based on the first three-quarters of the GBS that had been observed as of the date of writing of that paper. Among the goals of the GBS are constraining the neutron star (NS) equation of state and the black hole (BH) mass distribution via the identification of eclipsing NS and BH low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs). The latter goal will, in addition, be obtained by significantly enlarging the number of BH systems for which a BH mass can be derived. Further goals include constraining X-ray binary formation scenarios, in particular the common envelope phase and the occurrence of kicks, via source-type number counts and an investigation of the spatial distribution of X-ray binaries, respectively. The GBS targets two strips of 6 degrees by 1 degrees (12 deg<sup>2</sup> in total), one above (1<sup>o</sup> < b < 2<sup>o</sup>) and the other below (-2<sup>o</sup> < b < -1<sup>o</sup>) the Galactic plane in the direction of the Galactic center at X-ray, optical and near-infrared wavelengths. By avoiding the Galactic plane (-1<sup>o</sup> < b < 1<sup>o</sup>) the authors limit the influence of extinction on the X-ray and optical emission but still sample relatively large number densities of sources. The survey is designed such that a large fraction of the X-ray sources can be identified from their optical spectra. The X-ray survey, by design, covers a large area on the sky while the depth is shallow, using 2 ks per Chandra pointing. In this way, the authors maximize the predicted number ratio of (quiescent) LMXBs to cataclysmic variables. The survey is approximately homogeneous in depth to a 0.5-10 keV flux of 7.7 x 10<sup>-14</sup> erg cm<sup>-2</sup> s<sup>-1</sup>. As of Paper I, the authors had covered about three-fourths (8.3 deg<sup>2</sup>) of the projected survey area with Chandra observations providing 1234 unique X-ray sources. In Paper II, the authors find 424 additional X-ray sources in the 63 Chandra observations that they report on there. In the papers, the authors discuss the characteristics and the X-ray variability of the brightest of the sources as well as the radio properties from existing radio surveys. They point out an interesting asymmetry in the number of X-ray sources as a function of their Galactic l and b coordinates which is probably caused by differences in average extinction towards the different parts of the GBS survey area. This table was originally ingested by the HEASARC in June 2011 based on an electronic version of Table 3 from Paper I which was obtained from the ApJS web site. The current version of this table was ingested by the HEASARC in January 2014 based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/ApJS/210">CDS catalog J/ApJS/210</a>,18 file cxogbs.dat, which appears to be the combination of an Table 3 from Paper I with Table 1 from Paper II. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/clasxs
- Title:
- Chandra Large-Area Synoptic X-Ray Survey of Lockman Hole-NW
- Short Name:
- Chan/Syn/LHN
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This table contains the X-ray catalog and basic results from the wide-area, moderately deep Chandra Large Area Synoptic X-ray Survey (CLASXS) of the Lockman Hole-Northwest (LHNW) field (Yang et al. 2004), as well as the results from optical and near-infrared photometric and spectroscopic observations of these X-ray sources (Steffen et al. 2004). The nine ACIS-I fields cover a contiguous solid angle of 0.4 square degrees and reach fluxes of 5 x 10<sup>-16</sup> ergs/cm<sup>2</sup>/s (0.4 - 2 keV) and 3 x 10<sup>-15</sup> ergs/cm<sup>2</sup>/s (2 - 8 keV). (Note that fields LHNW 1-3 were observed during 2001 April 30-May 17, and that the rest of the fields were observed during 2002 April 29-May 4). This survey bridges the gap between ultra-deep pencil-beam surveys, such as the Chandra Deep Fields (CDFs), and shallower, large-area surveys, allowing a better probe of the X-ray sources that contribute most of the 2 - 10 keV cosmic X-ray background (CXB). A total of 525 X-ray point sources and four extended sources were found. There are B, V, R, I, and z' photometry for 521 (99%) of the 525 sources in the X-ray catalog and spectroscopic redshifts for 271 (52%), including 20 stars. The authors did not find evidence for redshift groupings of the X-ray sources, like those found in the Chandra Deep Field surveys, because of the larger solid angle covered by this survey. They separated the X-ray sources by optical spectral type and examined the colors, apparent and absolute magnitudes, and redshift distributions for the broad-line and non-broad-line active galactic nuclei. Combining their wide-area survey with other Chandra and XMM-Newton hard X-ray surveys, they find a definite lack of luminous, high accretion rate sources at z < 1, consistent with previous observations that showed that super-massive black hole growth is dominated at low redshifts by sources with low accretion rates. This table was created by the HEASARC in May 2005 from the merger of 3 CDS tables, corresponding to Tables 2 and 3 from Yang et al. 2005 and Table 1 of Steffen et al. (2005): <p> <pre> J/AJ/128/1501/table2.dat J/AJ/128/1501/table3.dat J/AJ/128/1483/table1.dat </pre> This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/clasxsoid
- Title:
- ChandraLarge-AreaSynopticX-RaySurveyOptical&IRCatalog
- Short Name:
- CLASXSOID
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This table contains the redshift catalog for the X-ray sources detected in the Chandra Large Area Synoptic X-ray Survey (CLASXS). The catalog for the CLASXS field includes redshifts from previous work. The authors have extended the redshift information for the full sample using photometric redshifts. The goal of the OPTX Project is to use this survey, together with the Chandra Deep Field-North (CDF-N) and the Chandra Lockman Area North Survey (CLANS), which are among the most spectroscopically complete surveys to date, to analyze the effect of spectral type on the shape and evolution of the X-ray luminosity functions and to compare the optical spectral types with the X-ray spectral properties. The CLANS and CLASXS surveys bridge the gap between the ultra-deep pencil-beam surveys, such as the Chandra Deep Fields, and the shallower, very large-area surveys. As a result, they probe the X-ray sources that contribute the bulk of the 2-8 keV X-ray background and cover the flux range of the observed break in the log N - log S distribution. This table also contains updated optical and infrared photometric catalogs for the X-ray sources in the CLASXS field. Note that for any source with both CFHT and Subaru data in the R and z' bands, the authors used the CFHT magnitude. Typical photometric uncertainties are given in Section 3.6 of the reference paper (Trouille et al. 2008). The X-ray information for the CLASXS catalog which was published in Yang et al. (2004, AJ, 128, 1501) is available as the HEASARC CLASXS table. This table was created by the HEASARC in January 2009 based on the electronic version of Table 12 from the paper which was obtained from the ApJ web site. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/clscat
- Title:
- Chandra Legacy Survey (CLS) Catalog
- Short Name:
- CLSCAT
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The COSMOS-Legacy survey is a 4.6-Ms Chandra program that has imaged 2.2 deg<sup>2</sup> of the COSMOS field with an effective exposure of ~160 ks over the central 1.5 deg<sup>2</sup> and of ~80 ks in the remaining area. The survey is the combination of 56 new observations obtained as an X-ray Visionary Project with the previous C-COSMOS survey. In the reference paper, the authors describe the reduction and analysis of the new observations and the properties of 2273 point sources detected above a spurious probability of 2 x 10<sup>-5</sup>. The authors also present the updated properties of the C-COSMOS sources detected in the new data. The whole survey includes 4,016 point sources (3,814, 2,920 and 2,440 in the full, soft, and hard band). The limiting depths are 2.2 x 10<sup>-16</sup>, 1.5 x 10<sup>-15</sup>, and 8.9 x 10<sup>-16</sup> erg/cm<sup>2</sup>/s in the 0.5-2, 2-10, and 0.5-10 keV bands, respectively. The observed fraction of obscured active galactic nuclei with a column density > 10<sup>22</sup> cm<sup>-2</sup> from the hardness ratio (HR) is ~ 50<sup>+17</sup>_-16_%. Given the large sample, the authors compute source number counts in the hard and soft bands, significantly reducing the uncertainties of 5% - 10%. For the first time, they compute number counts for obscured (HR > -0.2) and unobscured (HR < -0.2) sources and find significant differences between the two populations in the soft band. Due to the unprecedented large exposure, the COSMOS-Legacy area is three times larger than surveys at similar depths and its depth is three times fainter than surveys covering similar areas. The area-flux region occupied by COSMOS-Legacy is likely to remain unsurpassed for years to come. The half-a-field shift tiling strategy was designed to uniformly cover the COSMOS Hubble area in depth and point-spread function (PSF) size by combining the old C-COSMOS (Elvis et al., 2009, ApJS, 184, 158) observations with the new Chandra ones (see Figure 1 in the reference paper). The main properties of the new ACIS-I Chandra COSMOS-Legacy observations are summarized in Table 1 therein. The observations took place in four blocks: 2012 November to 2013 January; 2013 March to July; 2013 October to 2014 January; and 2014 March. The mean net effective exposure time per field was 48.8 ks after all the cleaning and reduction operations. This table was created by the HEASARC in July 2016 based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/ApJ/819/62">CDS Catalog J/ApJ/819/62</a>, file table5.dat. Some of the values for the name parameter in the HEASARC's implementation of this table were corrected in April 2018. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/clansoid
- Title:
- ChandraLockmanAreaNorthSurvey(CLANS)Optical&IRCatalog
- Short Name:
- CLANSOID
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This table contains the redshift catalog for the X-ray sources detected in the Chandra Lockman Area North Survey (CLANS). The redshifts for the CLANS field are all new. For fluxes above 10<sup>-14</sup> ergs cm<sup>-2</sup> s<sup>-1</sup> (2-8 keV) the authors have redshifts for 76% of the sources in the CLANS, CLASXS, and CDF-N surveys. They extend the redshift information for the full sample using photometric redshifts. The goal of the OPTX Project is to use these three surveys, which are among the most spectroscopically complete surveys to date, to analyze the effect of spectral type on the shape and evolution of the X-ray luminosity functions and to compare the optical spectral types with the X-ray spectral properties. The optical and infrared photometric catalog for the CLANS X-ray sources is presented here (see the CLANS Browse table for the X-ray information). The CLANS and CLASXS surveys bridge the gap between the ultra-deep pencil-beam surveys, such as the CDFs, and the shallower, very large-area surveys. As a result, they probe the X-ray sources that contribute the bulk of the 2-8 keV X-ray background and cover the flux range of the observed break in the log N - log S distribution. This table was created by the HEASARC in December 2008 based on the electronic version of Table 11 from the paper which was obtained from the ApJ web site. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/clans
- Title:
- Chandra Lockman Area North Survey (CLANS) X-Ray Source Catalog
- Short Name:
- CLANS
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This table contains the catalogs for the X-ray sources detected in the Chandra Lockman Area North Survey (CLANS). (The information on the optical and infrared counterparts to these sources is contained in the CLANSOID table.) The nine ACIS-I fields which constitute the CLANS cover a solid angle of ~0.6 deg<sup>2</sup> and reach fluxes of 7 x 10<sup>-16</sup> ergs cm<sup>-2</sup> s<sup>-1</sup> (0.5-2 keV) and 3.5 x 10<sup>-15</sup> ergs cm<sup>-2</sup> s<sup>-1</sup> (2-8 keV). The authors find a total of 761 X-ray point sources. The CLANS and CLASXS surveys bridge the gap between the ultra-deep pencil-beam surveys, such as the CDFs, and the shallower, very large-area surveys. As a result, they probe the X-ray sources that contribute the bulk of the 2-8 keV X-ray background and cover the flux range of the observed break in the log N-log S distribution. CLANS consists of nine separate 70 ks Chandra ACIS-I exposures centered at J2000.0 RA and Dec of (10 46,+59 01) (see Table 2 of the reference paper for the full observational details) which were combined to create an 0.6 deg<sup>2</sup> image containing 761 sources. The CLANS observations consist of a raster with an ~2 arcminute overlap between contiguous pointings. Following the prescription in Yang et al. (2004, AJ, 128, 1501) for the CLASXS field, the authors merged the nine individual pointing catalogs to create the final CLANS X-ray catalog. For sources with more than one detection in the nine fields, they used the detection from the observation in which the effective area of the source was the largest. This table was created by the HEASARC in December 2008 based on the electronic versions of Tables 4 and 5 from the paper which were obtained from the ApJ web site. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/champlane
- Title:
- Chandra Multiwavelength Plane Survey Optical ID Catalog
- Short Name:
- CHAMPLANE
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The authors have carried out optical and X-ray spectral analyses on a sample of 136 candidate optical counterparts of X-ray sources found in five Galactic bulge fields included in their Chandra Multiwavelength Plane (ChaMPlane) Survey. They used a combination of optical spectral fitting and quantile X-ray analysis to obtain the hydrogen column density toward each object, and a three-dimensional dust model of the Galaxy to estimate the most probable distance in each case. They present the discovery of a population of stellar coronal emission sources, likely consisting of pre-main-sequence, young main-sequence, and main-sequence stars, as well as a component of active binaries of RS CVn or BY Dra type. They identify one candidate quiescent low-mass X-ray binary with a sub-giant companion, but note that this object may also be an RS CVn system. They report the discovery of 3 new X-ray-detected cataclysmic variables (CVs) in the direction of the Galactic center (at distances <~2 kpc). This number is in excess of predictions made with a simple CV model based on a local CV space density of <~10<sup>-5</sup> pc<sup>-3</sup>, and a scale height of ~200 pc. They discuss several possible reasons for this observed excess in their paper. This table was created by the HEASARC in October 2008 based on the version of Table 5 from the paper which was obtained from the electronic ApJ web site. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .