- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/ngc3115cxo
- Title:
- NGC 3115 Chandra X-Ray Point Source Catalog
- Short Name:
- NGC3115CXO
- Date:
- 25 Apr 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This table contains some of the results from an in-depth study of low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) detected in the nearby lenticular galaxy NGC 3115 using the Megasecond Chandra X-ray Visionary Project observation (total exposure time 1.1 Ms). In total the authors found 136 candidate LMXBs in the field and 49 in globular clusters (GCs) above 2-sigma detection, with 0.3-8 keV luminosity L<sub>X</sub> ~ 10<sup>36</sup> - 10<sup>39</sup> erg s<sup>-1</sup>. Other than 13 transient candidates, the sources overall have less long-term variability at higher luminosity, at least at L<sub>X</sub> >~ 2 x 10<sup>37</sup> erg s<sup>-1</sup>. In order to identify the nature and spectral state of these sources, the authors compared their collective spectral properties based on single-component models (a simple power law or a multicolor disk) with the spectral evolution seen in representative Galactic LMXBs. The authors found that in the L<sub>X</sub> vs. photon index Gamma<sub>PL</sub> and L<sub>X</sub> versus disk temperature kT<sub>MCD</sub> plots, most of their sources fall on a narrow track in which the spectral shape hardens with increasing luminosity below L<sub>X</sub> ~ 7 x 10<sup>37</sup> erg s<sup>-1</sup>, but is relatively constant (Gamma<sub>PL</sub> ~ 1.5 or kT<sub>MCD</sub> ~ 1.5 keV) above this luminosity, which is similar to the spectral evolution of Galactic neutron star (NS) LMXBs in the soft state in the Chandra bandpass. Therefore, the authors identified the track as the NS LMXB soft-state track and suggested sources with L<sub>X</sub> <~ 10<sup>37</sup> erg s<sup>-1</sup> as atolls in the soft state and those with L<sub>X</sub> >~ 10<sup>37</sup> erg s<sup>-1</sup> as Z sources. Ten other sources (five are transients) displayed significantly softer spectra and are probably black hole X-ray binaries in the thermal state. One of them (a persistent source) is in a metal-poor GC. The 11 Chandra observations of NGC 3115 are listed in Table 1 of the reference paper. They were made during three epochs: one in 2001,two in 2010, and nine in 2012. All observations used the imaging array of the AXAF CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS). This table contains the properties of the 482 detected point sources in the merged and single Chandra ACIS observations of NGC 3115 above a 2-sigma threshold and after eliminating a number of spurious sources associated with bright streaks on the ACIS-S1 chip and (in one case) on a CCD edge. 469 of these sources (indicated by values of obs_flag = '0') have a single entry in this table, based on their properties as derived from all of the available Chandra data for that position. There are 13 transient sources (having obs_flag = 'h') for which an additional entry is provided referring to their properties in the "high state", and based on the combination of their high-state observations, as shown in Figures 3(a) - 3(d) in the reference paper. For source number 198, there is a second additional entry provided referring to its properties in the "low state", and based on the combination of its low-state observations, as shown in Figure 3(c) in the reference paper. Thus, there are 496 entries (rows) in this table, i.e., 482 + 13 + 1. This table was created by the HEASARC in August 2015 based on the union of the machine-readable versions of Table 3 (the master source catalog) and Table 4 (the source counts, fluxes and hardness ratios in the merged observations) that were obtained from the ApJ web site. It does not contain the source counts and fluxes in the individual observations which were given in Table 5 of the reference paper. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
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- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/ngc2264cx2
- Title:
- NGC 2264 Chandra X-Ray Point Source Catalog 2
- Short Name:
- NGC2264CX2
- Date:
- 25 Apr 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- With the goal of improving the member census of the NGC 2264 star-forming region and studying the origin of X-ray activity in young pre-main sequence (PMS) stars, the authors analyzed a deep, 100 ks long, Chandra ACIS observation covering a 17' x 17' field in the 3 Myr old star-forming region (SFR) NGC 2264. The preferential detection in X-rays of low-mass PMS stars gives strong indications of their membership. The authors study X-ray activity as a function of stellar and circumstellar characteristics by correlating the X-ray luminosities, temperatures, and absorptions with optical and near-infrared (NIR) data from the literature. The authors detected 420 X-ray point sources in the observation above a 4.6-sigma significance threshold using the PWDetect software. Optical and NIR counterparts were found in the literature for 85% of the sources. The authors argue that more than 90% of these counterparts are NGC 2264 members, thereby significantly increasing the known low-mass cluster population by about 100 objects. Among the sources without counterpart, about 50% are probably associated with members, several of which are expected to be previously unknown protostellar objects. With regard to activity, several previous findings are confirmed: X-ray luminosity is related to stellar mass, although with a large scatter; L<sub>x</sub>/L<sub>bol</sub> is close to, but almost invariably below, the saturation level of 10<sup>-3</sup>, especially when considering the quiescent X-ray emission. A comparison between classical T Tauri stars (CTTS) and weak-line T Tauri stars (WTTS) shows several differences: CTTS have, at any given mass, activity levels that are both lower and more scattered than WTTS; emission from CTTS may also be more time variable and is on average slightly harder than for WTTS. However, there is evidence in some CTTS of extremely cool, ~0.1 - 0.2 keV, plasma which the authors speculate is due to plasma heated by accretion shocks. The X-ray spectra of the 199 sources with more than 50 detected photons were analyzed by the authors. Spectral fits were performed with XSPEC 11.3 and with several shell and TCL scripts to automate the process. For each source, they fit the data in the [0.5 - 7.0] keV energy interval with several model spectra: one and two isothermal components (APEC), subject to photoelectric absorption from interstellar and circumstellar material (WABS). Plasma abundances for one-temperature (1T) models were fixed at 0.3 times the solar abundances, while they were both fixed at that value and treated as a free parameter for the two-temperature (2T) models. The absorbing column densities, N<sub>H</sub>, were both left as a free parameter and fixed at values corresponding to the optically/NIR determined extinctions, when available: N<sub>H</sub> = 1.6 x 10<sup>21</sup> A<sub>V</sub>. This table contains the X-ray, optical and NIR data for the 420 detected X-ray sources; it does not contain the master catalog of 1598 optical/NIR sources within the ACIS FOV which was presented in Table 3 of the reference paper, available at <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/455/903/table3.dat">https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/455/903/table3.dat</a> This table was created by the HEASARC in March 2007 based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/455/903">CDS Catalog J/A+A/455/903</a> files table1.dat, table4.dat and table6.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/ngc2264cxo
- Title:
- NGC 2264 Chandra X-Ray Point Source Catalog
- Short Name:
- NGC2264CXO
- Date:
- 25 Apr 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The NGC 2264 Chandra X-Ray Point Source Catalog contains the results of a Chandra observation of a field in the NGC 2264 star-forming region. The observation was made with Chandra's Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer imaging array (ACIS-I) on 2002 February 9, and has an exposure time of 48.1 ks. The catalog contains 263 sources, and includes X-ray luminosity, optical and infrared photometry, and X-ray variability information. The authors found 41 variable sources, 14 of which have a flare-like light curve, and two of which have a pattern of a steady increase or decrease over a 10-hr period. The optical and infrared photometry for the stars identified as X-ray sources are consistent with most of these objects being pre-main sequence stars with ages younger than 3 Myr. The authors found that 213 (81%) of the 263 X-ray sources have optical and/or infrared counterparts, most, but probably not all, of which are likely to be member stars of NGC 2264. There are 51 X-ray sources that lack optical or infrared counterparts: the authors believe that these are most likely extragalactic objects (active galaxies). This table was created by the HEASARC in February 2007 based on CDS table J/AJ/127/2659, files table1.dat, table4.dat and table5.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/ngc2516cxo
- Title:
- NGC 2516 Chandra X-Ray Point Source Catalog
- Short Name:
- NGC2516CXO
- Date:
- 25 Apr 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The NGC 2516 Chandra X-Ray Point Source Catalog is the result of a comprehensive study of the Chandra X-ray observations of the young open star cluster NGC 2516. The authors have analyzed eight individual Chandra observations, comprising 5 ACIS and 3 HRC-I observations. They have combined these datasets to achieve the greatest sensitivity, reaching down to a threshold level of log f<sub>X</sub> = -14.56 (erg/s/cm<sup>2</sup>), or log L<sub>X</sub> = 28.69 (erg/s) at the 387 pc distance of NGC 2516. Out of 284 X-ray sources detected, 155 are identified with photometric cluster members, with very little ambiguity, another 60 with non-members. There are 4 X-ray sources with two possible optical identifications (one cluster member and one nonmember for each), with no obvious choice between the two candidates. These 4 X-ray sources are listed in this Browse table twice, one for each optical counterpart, hence there are (284 + 4 =) 288 entries. There remain 73 X-ray sources without an optical identification with the authors' optical catalog stars. This Browse table was created by the HEASARC in December 2006, based on CDS table J/ApJ/588/1009, files table4.dat and table5.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/ngc404cxo
- Title:
- NGC 404 Chandra X-Ray Point Source Catalog
- Short Name:
- NGC404CXO
- Date:
- 25 Apr 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This table contains a comprehensive X-ray point-source catalog of NGC 404, the closest face-on (inclination angle of 11 degrees) S0 galaxy to the Milky Way, which was obtained as part of the Chandra Local Volume Survey (CLVS) and originally published in Binder et al. (2013). A new 97-ks Chandra ACIS-S observation of NGC 404 was combined with archival observations for a total exposure of ~123 ks. This survey yields 74 highly significant X-ray point sources and is sensitive to a limiting unabsorbed luminosity of ~6 x 10<sup>35</sup> erg/s in the 0.35-8 keV band. To constrain the nature of each X-ray source, cross-correlations with multi-wavelength data were generated. The authors searched overlapping Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations for optical counterparts to their X-ray detections, but found only two X-ray sources with candidate optical counterparts. They found 21 likely low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs), although this number is a lower limit due to the difficulties in separating LMXBs from background active galactic nuclei (AGN). The X-ray luminosity functions (XLFs) in both the soft and hard energy bands are presented in the 2013 reference paper. The XLFs in the soft band (0.5-2 keV) and the hard band (2-8 keV) have a limiting luminosity at the 90% completeness limit of 10<sup>35</sup> erg/s and 10<sup>36</sup> erg/s, respectively, significantly lower than previous X-ray studies of NGC 404. The authors find the XLFs to be consistent with those of other X-ray populations dominated by LMXBs. However, the number of luminous (>10<sup>37</sup> erg/s) X-ray sources per unit stellar mass in NGC 404 is lower than is observed for other galaxies. The relative lack of luminous XRBs may be due to a population of LMXBs with main-sequence companions formed during an epoch of elevated star formation ~0.5 Gyr ago. NGC 404 was observed during Chandra X-Ray Observatory Cycle 12 on 2010 October 21-22 for 97 ks using the ACIS-S array (Obs. ID 12339). The authors additionally utilized archival observations: NGC 404 was observed on 1999 December 19 (Obs. ID 870) for ~24 ks and on 2000 August 30 (Obs. ID 384) for ~2 ks, both using the ACIS-S array. The authors created images in the following energy bands (keV): 0.35-8.0, 0.35-1.0, 1.0-2.0, 2.0-8.0 with bin sizes of 1, 2, 3, and 4. The iterative source detection strategy that was used is described in Section 2.3 of Binder et al. (2012, ApJ, 758, 15). ACIS-Extract (AE) was run a final time on the source list that was produces after an initial run of wavdetect followed by several iterations of AE, and the Poisson probability of not being a source (pns) value was computed in each of the following nine energy bands: 0.5 - 8.0, 0.5 - 2.0, 2.0 - 8.0, 0.5 - 1.0, 1.0 - 2.0, 2.0 - 4.0, 4.0 - 8.0, 0.35 - 1.0 or 0.35 - 8.0 keV. To be included in the final NGC 404 catalog, a source was required to have a pns value less than 4 x 10<sup>-6</sup> in any of the nine energy bands. The final CLVS source catalog for NGC 404 contains 74 sources. Given the survey size of these NGC 404 observations, there are expected to be ~1.6 false sources included in this NGC 404 final source catalog. Three HST fields were used to search for optical counterparts for each of the X-ray sources. One field (labeled "DEEP") was taken as part of the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) Nearby Galaxy Survey Treasury (ANGST, GO-10915; Dalcanton et al. 2009, ApJS, 183, 67), while the other two shallower fields (labeled "NE" and "SW") were obtained as part of GO-11986. Details of the HST data acquisition and data reduction are provided in Williams et al. (2010, ApJ, 716, 71). This table was created by the HEASARC in September 2015 primarily based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/ApJ/763/128">CDS Catalog J/ApJ/763/128</a> files table3.dat, table4.dat, table5.dat, table6.dat, table10.dat, table12.dat and table13.dat (Binder et al. 2013) which contain the properties of the 74 Chandra point sources found in this study.and of their multi-wavelength counterparts. As noted above, the HEASARC has added an extra parameter b4_flux which was taken from the machine-readable version of Table 5 of Binder et al. (2015). This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/ngc1893cxo
- Title:
- NGC 1893 Chandra X-Ray Point Source Catalog
- Short Name:
- NGC1893CXO
- Date:
- 25 Apr 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The outer Galaxy, where the environmental conditions are different from the solar neighbourhood, is a laboratory in which it is possible to investigate the dependence of the star formation process on the environmental parameters. The authors investigate the X-ray properties of NGC 1893, a young cluster (~ 1 - 2 Myr) in the outer part of the Galaxy (galactic radius >= 11 kpc), where they expect differences in the disk evolution and in the mass distribution of the stars, so as to explore the X-ray emission of its members and compare it with that of young stars in star forming regions near to the Sun. The authors analyze 5 deep Chandra ACIS-I observations with a total exposure time of 450 ks. Source events of the 1021 X-ray sources have been extracted with the IDL-based routine ACIS-Extract. Using spectral fitting and quantile analysis of X-ray spectra, they derive X-ray luminosities and compare the respective properties of Class II and Class III members. They also evaluate the variability of sources using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test and identify flares in the lightcurves. The X-ray luminosity of NGC 1893 X-ray members is in the range 10<sup>29.5</sup> - 10<sup>31.5</sup> erg s<sup>-1</sup>. Diskless stars are brighter in X-rays than disk-bearing stars, given the same bolometric luminosity. The authors find that 34% of the 1021 lightcurves appear variable and that they show 0.16 flares per source, on the average. Comparing their results with those relative to the Orion Nebula Cluster, they find that, after accounting for observational biases, the X-ray properties of NGC 1893 and the Orion stars are very similar. The authors conclude that the X-ray properties of stars in NGC 1893 are not affected by the environment and that the stellar population in the outer Galaxy may have the same coronal properties as nearby star-forming regions. The X-ray luminosity properties and the X-ray luminosity function appear to be universal and can therefore be used for estimating distances and for determining stellar properties. This table was created by the HEASARC in March 2012 based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/539/A74">CDS Catalog J/A+A/539/A74</a> file catalog.dat, the catalog of 1021 X-ray sources detected towards NGC 1893. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/ngc6791cxo
- Title:
- NGC 6791 Chandra X-Ray Point Source Catalog
- Short Name:
- NGC6791CXO
- Date:
- 25 Apr 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This table contains some of the results from the first X-ray study of NGC 6791, one of the oldest open clusters known (8 Gyr). This Chandra observation was aimed at uncovering the population of close interacting binaries down to an X-ray luminosity (L<sub>X</sub>) of ~1 x 10<sup>30</sup> erg/s (0.3-7 keV). The authors detect 86 sources within 8 arcminutes of the cluster center, including 59 inside the half-mass radius of 4.42 arcminutes. centered on 19<sup>h</sup> 20<sup>m</sup> 53<sup>s</sup>, +37<sup>o</sup> 46' 18" (J2000.0). They identify 20 sources with proper-motion cluster members, which are a mix of cataclysmic variables (CVs), active binaries (ABs), and binaries containing sub-subgiants. With follow-up optical spectroscopy, the authors confirm the nature of one CV. They also discover one new, X-ray variable candidate CV with Balmer and He II emission lines in its optical spectrum; this is the first X-ray-selected CV in an open cluster. The number of CVs per unit mass is consistent with the field, suggesting that the 3-4 CVs observed in NGC 6791 are primordial. The authors compare the X-ray properties of NGC 6791 with those of a few old open clusters (NGC 6819, M67) and globular clusters (47 Tuc, NGC 6397). It is puzzling that the number of ABs brighter than 1 x 10<sup>30</sup> erg/s normalized by cluster mass is lower in NGC 6791 than in M 67 by a factor ~3-7. CVs, ABs, and sub-subgiants brighter than 1 x 10<sup>30</sup> erg/s are under-represented per unit mass in the globular clusters compared to the oldest open clusters, and this accounts for the lower total X-ray luminosity per unit mass of the former. This indicates that the net effect of dynamical encounters may be the destruction of even some of the hardest (i.e., X-ray-emitting) binaries. The authors observed NGC 6791 with the Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS) on Chandra from 2004 July 1 20:51 UTC until July 2 10:49 UTC for a total exposure time of 48.2ks (ObsID 4510). They obtained low-resolution spectra of candidate optical counterparts to guide the classification of the X-ray sources. A total of 16 candidate counterparts brighter than V ~18.3 were observed with the FAST long-slit spectrograph on the 1.5m Tillinghast telescope on Mt. Hopkins on nine nights between 2005 June 7 to September 2 (coverage from 3480 to 7400 Angstrom and a 3 Angstrom resolution). Candidate optical counterparts fainter than V ~17 were observed with the fiber-fed multi-object spectrograph Hectospec on the 6.5m Multi-Mirror Telescope. A total of 16 candidate counterparts were observed on the nights of 2005 May 13 and July 4-6 (spectra that cover 3700 to 9150 Angstrom with a 6-Angstrom resolution). The authors performed source detections in broad (0.3-7.0 keV), soft (0.3-2.0 keV) and hard (2.0-7.0 keV) energy bands, also used in their Chandra study of M 67 (van den Berg et al. 2004, A&A, 418. 509), so as to facilitate comparison. The CIAO detection routine wavdetect was run for scales of 1.0 to 11.3 pixels, in steps increasing by a factor of sqrt(2), with the larger scales appropriate for large off-axis angles where the point-spread function (PSF) becomes significantly broader. The authors computed exposure maps for the response at 1 keV to account for spatial variations of the sensitivity. The wavdetect detection threshold was set to 10<sup>-6</sup>, from which the authors expect two spurious detections per detection scale (so 16 spurious detections in total) in the area that they consider here. Combination of the broad, soft, and hard-band source lists results in a master catalog of 86 distinct sources within 8 arcmin of the cluster center, of which 59 lie inside the half-mass radius r<sub>h</sub>. To investigate the validity of the sources, the authors also ran wavdetect with a threshold of 10<sup>-7</sup> or an expected number of spurious sources of 1.6. The 14 sources not detected in this run are marked with a value of the source_flag parameter of 'T' in this table (replacing the '*' symbol used in the original table). This table was created by the HEASARC in August 2015 based on the <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/ApJ/770/98">CDS Catalog J/ApJ/770/98</a> files table1.dat and table2.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/ngc4472cxo
- Title:
- NGC 4472 Chandra X-Ray Point Source Catalog
- Short Name:
- NGC4472CXO
- Date:
- 25 Apr 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The Chandra X-Ray Point Source Catalog of the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 4472 contains the results of a Chandra ACIS-S/Hubble Space Telescope (HST) study of the point sources of this Virgo Cluster galaxy. The authors ran WAVDETECT from the CIAO 2.2 software package using wavelet scales from 1 to 16 pixels spaced by factors of 2, setting a false-source probability detection threshold of 10<sup>-6</sup>, which should yield an expectation value of slightly less than one false source over the entire ACIS-S chip. They identify 144 X-ray point sources outside the nuclear region, 72 of which are located within the HST fields. An additional 3 sources are within 8" of the center of the galaxy and appear to be associated either with a weak active galactic nucleus or with brightness enhancements in the hot interstellar gas. One additional source (not included in this table) appears to be a spurious detection, as WAVDETECT assigns it a count rate of 1.5 counts, and visual inspection fails to find evidence of a source at that location. The optical data show 1102 sources whose half-light radii are small enough to be globular cluster candidates, 829 of which also have colors consistent with being globular clusters (with only four in the restricted central 10" region). 30 X-ray sources within 0.7" of an optical source with optical colors consistent with being globular clusters were found. Two additional sources show optical colors outside the globular cluster color range and are likely to be either foreground or background objects. The thirty globular cluster matches are likely to be low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) associated with the globular clusters, while ~ 42 of the X-ray sources have no optical counterparts to V <~ 25 and I <~ 24, indicating that they are likely to be predominantly LMXBs in the field star population with a small amount of possible contamination from background active galactic nuclei. Thus approximately 40% of the X-ray sources are in globular clusters and ~ 4% of the globular clusters contain X-ray sources. This HEASARC table contains the X-ray data for the above-mentioned 147 detected X-ray sources, and the correlative optical data for the 30 optical counterparts which have colors consistent with being globular clusters. It does not contain the data from the full list of optical sources which were given in Table 2 of the reference paper. This table was created by the HEASARC in May 2007 based on CDS table J/ApJ/586/814 files table1.dat and table3.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/ngc4214cxo
- Title:
- NGC 4214 Chandra X-Ray Point Source Catalog
- Short Name:
- NGC4214CXO
- Date:
- 25 Apr 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This table contains a comprehensive X-ray point source catalog of the IAB(s)m galaxy NGC 4214 similar to the LMC, one of the nearest examples of a starburst galaxy with a substantial population of Wolf-Rayet stars, as part of the Chandra Local Volume Survey. The combined archival observations of this galaxy have an effective exposure time of 79 ks. When combined with the catalogs of sources in NGC 55 and NGC 2403 given in this same reference paper, and the authors' previously published catalogs for NGC 300 (Binder et al. 2012, ApJ, 758, 15) and NGC 404 (Binder et al. 2013, ApJ, 763, 128), the CLVS contains 629 high-significance X-ray sources total down to a limiting unabsorbed luminosity of ~ 5 x 10<sup>35</sup> erg s<sup>-1</sup> in the 0.35-8.0 keV band in each of the five galaxies. In the reference paper, the authors present X-ray hardness ratios, spectral analysis, radial source distributions, and an analysis of the temporal variability for the X-ray sources detected at high significance. To constrain the nature of each X-ray source, they carried out cross-correlations with multi-wavelength data sets. They searched overlapping Hubble Space Telescope observations for optical counterparts to their X-ray detections to provide preliminary classifications for each X-ray source as a likely X-ray binary, background active galactic nucleus, supernova remnant, or foreground star. The authors utilized archival X-ray observations: NGC 4214 was observed by the Chandra X-Ray Observatory using the ACIS-S array on three occasions for a total of 79 ks: <pre> Obs. ID Date Eff. Exposure time (ks) 2030 2001 Oct 16 25 4743 2004 Apr 03 26 5197 2004 Jul 30 28 </pre> The iterative source detection strategy that was used is described in Section 2.3 of Binder et al. (2012, ApJ, 758, 15). ACIS-Extract (AE) was run a final time on the source list that was produces after an initial run of wavdetect followed by several iterations of AE, and the Poisson probability of not being a source (pns) value was computed in each of the following nine energy bands: 0.5 - 8.0, 0.5 - 2.0, 2.0 - 8.0, 0.5 - 1.0, 1.0 - 2.0, 2.0 - 4.0, 4.0 - 8.0, 0.35 - 1.0 or 0.35 - 8.0 keV. To be included in the final NGC 4214 catalog, a source was required to have a pns value less than 4 x 10<sup>-6</sup> in any of the nine energy bands. The final CLVS source catalog for NGC 2403 contains 116 sources. This table was created by the HEASARC in September 2015 based on machine-readable versions of those parts of Table 5 and 8 from the reference paper which pertained to the 116 high-significance (pns < 4 x 10<sup>-6</sup>) X-ray sources which were detected in NGC 4214. It does not include the 95 lower-significance sources in NGC 4214 which had 4 x 10<sup>-6</sup> < pns < 1.0 x 10<sup>-3</sup>, some of which are likely to be genuine X-ray sources. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/ngc752cxo
- Title:
- NGC 752 Chandra X-Ray Point Source Catalog
- Short Name:
- NGC752CXO
- Date:
- 25 Apr 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This table provides a list of X-ray sources detected in a ~140 ks Chandra X-ray observation of the open cluster NGC 752. For the sources with 2MASS counterparts, the values of their magnitudes in the J, H and K bands are also given. Very little is known about the evolution of stellar activity between the ages of the Hyades (0.8 Gyr) and the Sun (4.6 Gyr). To gain information on the typical level of coronal activity at a star's intermediate age, the authors have studied the X-ray emission from stars in the 1.9 Gyr-old open cluster NGC 752. They analyzed a ~ 140 ks Chandra observation of NGC 752 and a ~50 ks XMM-Newton observation of the same cluster. They detected 262 X-ray sources in the Chandra data and 145 sources in the XMM-Newton observation. Around 90% of the catalogued cluster members within Chandra's field of view are detected in the X-ray observation. The X-ray luminosity of all observed cluster members (28 stars) and of 11 cluster member candidates was derived. These data indicate that, at an age of 1.9 Gyr, the typical X-ray luminosity L<sub>x</sub> of the cluster members with masses of 0.8 to 1.2 solar masses is 1.3 x 10<sup>28</sup> erg s<sup>-1</sup>, which is approximately a factor of 6 times less intense than that observed in the younger Hyades. Given that L<sub>x</sub> is proportional to the square of a star's rotational rate, the median L<sub>x</sub> of NGC 752 is consistent, for t >= 1 Gyr, with a decaying rate in rotational velocities v<sub>rot</sub> ~ t<sup>-alpha</sup> with alpha ~ 0.75, steeper than the Skumanich relation (alpha ~ 0.5) and significantly steeper than that observed between the Pleiades and the Hyades (where alpha <0.3), suggesting that a change in the rotational regimes of the stellar interiors is taking place at an age of ~ 1 Gyr. The 135 ks observation of NGC 752 was performed by the Chandra ACIS camera on September 29, 2003 starting at 21:11:59 UT. The X-ray source detection was performed on the event list using the Wavelet Transform detection algorithm developed at Palermo Astronomical Observatory PWDETECT, available at <a href="http://oapa.astropa.unipa.it/progetti_ricerca/PWDetect">http://oapa.astropa.unipa.it/progetti_ricerca/PWDetect</a>. Initially, the energy range 0.2 - 10 keV was selected and the threshold for source detection was taken as to ensure a maximum of 1-2 spurious sources per field. 169 sources were detected in this way. The analysis of these sources hardness ratios showed, however, that all the catalogued stars in the field had low hardness ratios, HR < ~ 0.2, where HR is the number of photons in the 2 - 8 keV band over the number in the 0.5 - 2 keV band. Thus, to maximize the detection of stellar sources, PWDETECT was applied to the event list in the energy range from 0.5 - 2 keV. Using a detection threshold which ensures less than 1 spurious source per field leads to the detection of 188 sources, while lowering this threshold to 10 spurious sources per field, allows 262 sources to be identified in this energy range. This is a significant increase (well above the number expected if all the additional sources were spurious), thus the authors retained this list of 262 sources as their final list of sources in the NGC 752 field, with the caveat that ~ 10 sources among them are likely spurious. Note that the existence of ~ 10 spurious sources in the list is not so much of a problem in this context, because cluster members or candidate members are identified by the existence of a visible or near-IR counterpart. The authors searched for 2MASS counterparts to the X-ray sources using the 2MASS Point Source Catalogue (PSC) and a search radius of 3 arcsec and found a counterpart for 43 sources. Searching within the Point Source Reject Table of the 2MASS Extended Mission leads to the further identification of 1 counterpart (source number 87). This table was created by the HEASARC in October 2008 based on the electronic version of Table 6 from the reference paper which was obtained from the CDS website, i.e., their catalog J/A+A/490/113 file table6.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
