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191. Chandra Source Catalog, v2.0
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ivo://nasa.heasarc/csc
Title:
Chandra Source Catalog, v2.0
Short Name:
CSC
Date:
07 Mar 2025
Publisher:
NASA/GSFC HEASARC
Description:
The Chandra Source Catalog (CSC) is the definitive catalog of X-ray sources detected by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. By combining Chandra's sub-arcsecond on-axis spatial resolution and low instrumental background with consistent data processing, the CSC delivers a wide variety of uniformly calibrated properties and science ready data products for detected sources over four decades of flux. The second major release of the catalog, CSC 2.0, includes measured properties for 317,167 unique compact and extended X-ray sources in the sky, allowing statistical analysis of large samples, as well as individual source studies in the "Master Sources" table, provided herein. The extracted properties are provided for 928,280 individual observation detections, identified in 10,382 Chandra ACIS and HRC-I imaging observations released publicly through the end of 2014, at the <a href="https://cxc.harvard.edu/csc/about.html">Chandra X-ray Center</a>. CSC 2.0 includes -- as an "alpha" release -- photometric properties for 1,299 highly extended (> ~30") sources, together with surface brightness polygons for several contour levels. The sensitivity limit for compact sources in CSC 2.0 is ~5 net counts (a factor of >~2 better than the previous catalog release). This improvement is achieved by using a two-stage approach that involves co-adding multiple observations of the same field prior to source detection, and then using an optimized source detection method. For each X-ray detection and source, the catalog provides a detailed set of more than 100 tabulated positional, spatial, photometric, spectral, and temporal properties (each with associated lower and upper confidence intervals and measured in multiple energy bands). The catalog Bayesian aperture photometry code produces robust photometric probability density functions (PDFs), even in crowded fields and for low count detections. Release 2 uses a Bayesian Blocks analysis to identify multiple observations of the same source that have similar photometric properties, and these are analyzed simultaneously to improve S/N. The energy bands used to derive many of the CSC properties are defined in Table 4 of the reference paper: ultrasoft (u: 0.2-0.5 keV), soft (s: 0.5-1.2 keV), medium (m: 1.2-2.0 keV), hard (h: 2.0-7.0) and broad (b: 0.5-7.0 keV) for the ACIS energy bands, and wide (w: 0.1-10.0 keV) for the HRC energy band. The energy bands are chosen to optimize the detectability of X-ray sources while simultaneously maximizing the discrimination between different spectral shapes on X-ray color-color diagrams. Numerous source-specific catalog properties are evaluated within defined apertures. The authors define the "PSF 90% ECF aperture" for each source to be the ellipse that encloses 90% of the total counts in a model PSF centered on the source position. Because the size of the PSF is energy-dependent, the dimensions of the PSF 90% ECF aperture vary with energy band. They define the "source region aperture" for each source to be equal to the corresponding 3-sigma source region ellipse included in the merged source list, scaled by a factor of 1.5. Like the PSF 90% ECF aperture, the source region aperture is also centered on the source position, but the dimensions of the aperture are independent of energy band. This database table was ingested by the HEASARC in November 2019 and is based on a download of the online version of the Chandra Source Catalog, v2.0, at the CXC using the CLI. Refer to <a href="http://cxc.harvard.edu/csc/">http://cxc.harvard.edu/csc/</a> for details. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
192. Chandra Typical Galactic Plane Region Point Source Catalog
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ivo://nasa.heasarc/chantypgpr
Title:
Chandra Typical Galactic Plane Region Point Source Catalog
Short Name:
CHANTYPGPR
Date:
07 Mar 2025
Publisher:
NASA/GSFC HEASARC
Description:
Using the Chandra Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer Imaging array (ACIS-I), the authors carried out a deep hard X-ray observation of the Galactic plane region at a location (l, b) ~ (28.5 degrees, 0.0 degrees), where no discrete X-ray source had been reported previously. They detected 274 new point X-ray sources (4-sigma or greater confidence in any of the 3 energy bands 0.5 - 3.0 keV, 3.0 - 8.0 keV or 0.5 - 8.0 keV), as well as strong Galactic diffuse emission within two partially overlapping ACIS-I fields (~ 250 square arcminutes in total). The point-source sensitivity was ~ 3 x 10<sup>-15</sup> ergs/s/cm<sup>2</sup> in the 2 - 10 keV band and ~ 2 x 10<sup>-16</sup> erg/s/cm<sup>2</sup> in the 0.5 - 2 keV band The sum of all the detected point-source fluxes accounts for only ~ 10% of the total X-ray flux in the field of view. Only 26 point sources were detected in both the soft and hard bands, indicating that there are two distinct classes of X-ray source distinguished by their spectral hardness ratios. The surface number density of the hard sources is only slightly higher than that measured in high Galactic latitude regions, indicating that the majority of the hard sources are background AGNs. Following up the Chandra observation, the authors performed a near-infrared (NIR) survey with SofI at ESO/NTT. Almost all the soft X-ray sources have been identified in the NIR, and their spectral types are consistent with main-sequence stars, suggesting that most of them are nearby X-ray-active stars. On the other hand, only 22% of the hard sources had near-IR counterparts, which are presumably Galactic. From X-ray and near-IR spectral study, they are most likely to be quiescent cataclysmic variables. This Browse table was created by the HEASARC in December 2006 based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/ApJ/635/214/">CDS Catalog J/ApJ/635/214/</a>, the file table1.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
193. Chandra Variable Guide Star Catalog
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ivo://nasa.heasarc/chanvguide
Title:
Chandra Variable Guide Star Catalog
Short Name:
CHANVGUIDE
Date:
07 Mar 2025
Publisher:
NASA/GSFC HEASARC
Description:
Variable stars have been identified among the optical-wavelength light curves of guide stars used for pointing control of the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The authors present a catalog of these variable stars along with their light curves and ancillary data. Variability was detected to a lower limit of 0.02 mag amplitude in the 4000-10000 Angstroms range using the photometrically stable Aspect Camera on board the Chandra spacecraft. The Chandra Variable Guide Star Catalog (VGUIDE) contains 827 stars, of which 586 are classified as definitely variable and 241 are identified as possibly variable. Of the 586 definite variable stars, the authors believe 319 are new variable star identifications. Types of variables in the catalog include eclipsing binaries, pulsating stars, and rotating stars. The variability was detected during the course of normal verification of each Chandra pointing and results from analysis of over 75,000 guide star light curves from the Chandra mission. The VGUIDE catalog represents data from only about 9 years of the Chandra mission. Future releases of VGUIDE will include newly identified variable guide stars as the mission proceeds. An important advantage of the use of space data to identify and analyze variable stars is the relatively long observations that are available. The Chandra orbit allows for observations up to 2 days in length. Also, guide stars were often used multiple times for Chandra observations, so many of the stars in the VGUIDE catalog have multiple light curves available from various times in the mission. The catalog is presented as both online data associated with this paper (from which this HEASARC representation was created) and as a public Web interface at <a href="http://cxc.harvard.edu/vguide/">http://cxc.harvard.edu/vguide/</a>. Light curves with data at the instrumental time resolution of about 2 s, overplotted with the data binned at 1 ks, can be viewed on the above-mentioned public Web interface and downloaded for further analysis. (This HEASARC Browse table also contains links to these light curves). VGUIDE is a unique project using data collected during the mission that would otherwise be ignored. The stars available for use as Chandra guide stars are generally 6-11 magnitudes and are commonly spectral types A and later. Due to the selection of guide stars entirely for positional convenience, this catalog avoids the possible bias of searching for variability in objects where it is to be expected. Statistics of variability compared to spectral type indicate the expected dominance of A-F stars as pulsators. Eclipsing binaries are consistently 20%-30% of the detected var iables across all spectral types. This table was created by the HEASARC in July 2010 based on the electronic version of Table 4 from the paper which was obtained from the Astrophysical Journal web site. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
194. Chandra XAssist Source List
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ivo://nasa.heasarc/cxoxassist
Title:
Chandra XAssist Source List
Short Name:
Chan/XAssist
Date:
07 Mar 2025
Publisher:
NASA/GSFC HEASARC
Description:
This database table contains the latest Chandra XAssist source list. XAssist is a NASA-funded project for the automation of X-ray astrophysics, with emphasis on galaxies. It is capable of data reprocessing, source detection, and preliminary spatial, temporal, and spectral analysis for all sources with sufficient counts. The bulk of the system is written in Python, which in turn drives underlying software, e.g., CIAO for Chandra data. Pipelines running on Chandra observations of galaxies have generated the source list which comprises this HEASARC table. The pipeline also includes fields requested by users for various projects, most notably observations of a sample of quasars and several deep field observations have been processed. Note that the pipline processing is completely automated; therefore, users should visually inspect the results of any queries. This table was first created by the HEASARC in May 2005 based on the Chandra source list available at the XAssist website. In September 2010, the HEASARC switched over to using the "pipeline4" Chandra source list. It is updated on a weekly basis when and if the XAssist source list file at <a href="https://asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/xassist/pipeline4/chandra/master_srclist.csv">https://asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/xassist/pipeline4/chandra/master_srclist.csv</a> is updated. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
195. Chandra X-Ray Binary Catalog of SINGS Galaxies
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ivo://nasa.heasarc/changalxrb
Title:
Chandra X-Ray Binary Catalog of SINGS Galaxies
Short Name:
CHANGALXRB
Date:
07 Mar 2025
Publisher:
NASA/GSFC HEASARC
Description:
The authors of this catalog presented new Chandra constraints on the X-ray luminosity functions (XLFs) of X-ray binary (XRB) populations, as well as their scaling relations, for a sample of 38 nearby galaxies (D = 3.4-29 Mpc). The galaxy sample is drawn primarily from the Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey (SINGS) and contains a wealth of Chandra (5.8 Ms total) and multiwavelength data, allowing for star formation rates (SFRs) and stellar masses (M<sub>*</sub>) to be measured on subgalactic scales. The authors divided the 2478 X-ray-detected sources into 21 subsamples in bins of specific SFR (sSFR=SFR/M<sub>*</sub>) and constructed XLFs. To model the XLF dependence on sSFR, they fitted a global XLF model, containing contributions from high-mass XRBs (HMXBs), low-mass XRBs (LMXBs), and background sources from the cosmic X-ray background that respectively scale with SFR, M<sub>*</sub>, and sky area. They found an HMXB XLF that is more complex in shape than previously reported and an LMXB XLF that likely varies with sSFR, potentially due to an age dependence. When applying the global model to XLF data for each individual galaxy, the authors discovered a few galaxy XLFs that significantly deviated from their model beyond statistical scatter. Most notably, relatively low-metallicity galaxies have an excess of HMXBs above ~10<sup>38</sup>erg/s, and elliptical galaxies that have relatively rich populations of globular clusters (GCs) show excesses of LMXBs compared to the global model. Additional modeling of how the XRB XLF depends on stellar age, metallicity, and GC specific frequency is required to sufficiently characterize the XLFs of galaxies. In this work, the authors utilized 5.8 Ms of Chandra ACIS data, combined with UV-to-IR observations, for 38 nearby (D < ~30 Mpc) Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey (SINGS; Kennicutt+ <a href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003PASP..115..928K">2003PASP..115..928K</a>) galaxies to revisit scaling relations of the HMXB and LMXB X-ray luminosity functions (XLFs) with SFR and M<sub>*</sub>, respectively. This table contains the X-ray properties for 4442 X-ray point sources, including those with L<sub>X</sub> < 10<sup>35</sup>erg/s, which were excluded from the XLF analysis. This table was created by the HEASARC in April 2023 based upon the <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/ApJS/243/3">CDS Catalog J/ApJS/243/3</a> file table7.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
196. ChIcAGO Survey Chandra X-Ray Source Catalog
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ivo://nasa.heasarc/chicagocxo
Title:
ChIcAGO Survey Chandra X-Ray Source Catalog
Short Name:
CHICAGOCXO
Date:
07 Mar 2025
Publisher:
NASA/GSFC HEASARC
Description:
This table contains results from the 'Chasing the Identification of ASCA Galactic Objects' (ChIcAGO) survey, which is designed to identify the unknown X-ray sources discovered during the ASCA Galactic Plane Survey (AGPS). Little is known about most of the AGPS sources, especially those that emit primarily in hard X-rays (2-10 keV) within the X-ray flux range from ~ 10<sup>-13</sup> to 10<sup>-11</sup> erg cm<sup>-2</sup> s<sup>-1</sup>. In ChIcAGO, the sub-arcsecond localization capabilities of Chandra have been combined with a detailed multi-wavelength follow-up program, with the ultimate goal of classifying the > 100 unidentified sources in the AGPS. Overall to date, 93 unidentified AGPS sources have been observed with Chandra as part of the ChIcAGO survey. A total of 253 X-ray point sources have been detected in these Chandra observations within 3 arcminutes of the original ASCA positions. The authors have identified infrared and optical counterparts to the majority of these sources, using both new observations and catalogs from existing Galactic plane surveys. X-ray and infrared population statistics for the X-ray point sources detected in the Chandra observations reveal that the primary populations of Galactic plane X-ray sources that emit in the X-ray flux range from ~ 10<sup>-13</sup> to 10<sup>-11</sup> erg cm<sup>-2</sup> s<sup>-1</sup> are active stellar coronae, massive stars with strong stellar winds that are possibly in colliding wind binaries, X-ray binaries, and magnetars. There is also another primary population that is still unidentified but, on the basis of its X-ray and infrared properties, likely comprises partly Galactic sources and partly active galactic nuclei. A total of 93 AGPS sources have been observed with Chandra as part of the ChIcAGO survey, of which 84 were imaged with ACIS-S and 9 were imaged with HRC-I. The ChIcAGO Chandra observations took place over a 3.5 yr period, from 2007 January to 2010 July. The Chandra exposure times ranged from ~ 1 to 10 ks. All the details of these Chandra observations are listed in Table 1 of the reference paper. The initial automated analysis of these Chandra observations was conducted using the ChIcAGO Multi-wavelength Analysis Pipeline (MAP), described in Section 2.2 of the reference paper. ChIcAGO MAP takes the ACIS-S or HRC-I Chandra observation of an AGPS source field and detects and analyzes all point sources within 3 arcminutes, equivalent to the largest likely position error, for the original AGPS source positions supplied by Sugizaki et al. (2001, ApJS, 134, 77). The authors then performed a more detailed X-ray analysis and counterpart study for those 74 sources with > 20 X-ray counts, as such sources are approximately within the original AGPS sources X-ray flux range (see Sections 3.2 and 3.3 of the reference paper). Infrared and optical follow-up were primarily performed on those ChIcAGO sources having > 20 X-ray counts. In order to determine which optical and infrared sources are counterparts to ChIcAGO sources, the authors used a technique similar to that described by Zhao et al. (2005, ApJS, 161, 429), using their Equation (11). If the separation between a ChIcAGO source's wavdetect position and its possible counterpart is less than the quadratic sum of their 3-sigma positional errors and the 3-sigma Chandra pointing error, then the X-ray and optical (or infrared) sources are likely to be associated. The 1-sigma positional errors for all sources in the 2MASS PSC and GLIMPSE catalogs are 0.1 arcseconds and 0.3 arcseconds, respectively. USNO B has an astrometric accuracy of < 0.25 arcseconds. The authors have assumed that the error distributions of the Chandra observations, Chandra pointing, and USNO B Catalog are all Gaussian for the purposes of identifying possible counterparts to the ChIcAGO sources. This table was created by the HEASARC in June 2014 based on electronic versions of Tables 1, 2 and 12 from the reference paper which were obtained from the ApJS website. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
197. CMA Catalog Central 6 Arcmin
ID:
ivo://nasa.heasarc/le
Title:
CMA Catalog Central 6 Arcmin
Short Name:
LE
Date:
07 Mar 2025
Publisher:
NASA/GSFC HEASARC
Description:
This database table contains results from the LE telescope for only the central 6 arc-minutes. It is the same as the CMA database in every other respect. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
198. CMa OB1 XMM-Newton Point Source Near-Infrared Counterpart Properties Catalog
ID:
ivo://nasa.heasarc/cmaob1nir
Title:
CMa OB1 XMM-Newton Point Source Near-Infrared Counterpart Properties Catalog
Short Name:
CMAOB1NIR
Date:
07 Mar 2025
Publisher:
NASA/GSFC HEASARC
Description:
The Canis Major OB1 association has an intriguing scenario of star formation, especially in the region called Canis Major R1 (CMa R1) traditionally assigned to a reflection nebula, but in reality an ionized region. The authors focused on the young stellar population associated with CMa R1, for which previous results from ROSAT, optical, and near-infrared data had revealed two stellar groups with different ages, suggesting a possible mixing of populations originated from distinct star formation episodes (see the <a href="/W3Browse/rosat/cmar1xray.html">table CMAR1XRAY</a>). The observations performed with XMM-Newton resulted in a sample of 387 X-ray sources (187, 84, 37, and 79 in Fields E, C, S , and W, respectively), 340 of which have one or more NIR (2MASS) counterparts. This table contains the 2MASS photometry, estimates of age and mass, and infrared classification of members of the CMa R1 region and counterparts to X-ray sources, based on 2MASS and WISE data. The authors also used X-ray data to characterize the detected sources (387 sources) according to hardness ratios, light curves, and spectra (see the associated table <a href="/W3Browse/xmm-newton/cmaob1xmm.html">CMAOB1XMM</a>). For this work, four fields (each about 30-arcmin diameter with some overlap) were defined. These fields are located inside the arc-shaped ionized nebula, next to Z CMa - Field E (east); around GU CMa - Field W (west); and between both - Field C (center) and Field S (south), as shown in Figure 1 of the reference paper. <pre> RA(J2000) | Dec(J2000) | Designation(s) 07 04 18.3 | -11 27 24.0 | CMa cluster east (Field E) 07 02 58.4 | -11 34 44.7 | CMa cluster center (Field C) 07 02 29.5 | -11 47 12.4 | CMa cluster south (Field S) 07 01 23.0 | -11 19 56.6 | CMa cluster west (Field W) </pre> The authors have selected NIR counterparts by searching the 2MASS catalog for candidates located less that 10'' away from the nominal X-ray source positions. No counterpart was found for 45 sources. Candidates for which the distance seems to be incompatible with the CMaR1 molecular cloud were disregarded. This table includes the complete list of NIR counterparts, however the authors only consider as reliable those flagged as 'AAA' in the 2MASS catalog (i.e., with S/N > 10, magnitude errors <0.1 mag, and above the JHK completeness limits), given by the twomass_flags field in this table. There are 340 such reliable NIR counterparts for 290 X-ray sources, including 46 X-ray sources with multiple counterpart candidates. X-ray and NIR data have revealed that most (79%) of the XMM-Newton sources are probable members of CMa R1. The combination of the results from both analyses can confirm their young nature. On the other hand, 21% of the XMM-Newton sample are probably field objects. Among these, 6% (23/387) have infrared counterparts that probably are foreground stars and 4% (17/387) have counterparts that are too faint (bad quality data) without reliable classification. The other 11% of undefined sources (44/387) do not have 2MASS data because they are classified as possible background objects. The authors have seen that the XMM-Newton error boxes may include multiple NIR counterparts. In such cases, they restricted the comparative analysis to the 158 X-ray sources of their "best sample" that are associated with a single NIR counterpart, as described in Section 4.3 of the reference paper. A distance of 1 kpc to CMa OB1 is assumed for this table. This table was created by the HEASARC in October 2018 based upon the <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/609/A127">CDS Catalog J/A+A/609/A127</a> file tableb2.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
199. CMa OB1 XMM-Newton X-Ray Point Source Catalog
ID:
ivo://nasa.heasarc/cmaob1xmm
Title:
CMa OB1 XMM-Newton X-Ray Point Source Catalog
Short Name:
CMAOB1XMM
Date:
07 Mar 2025
Publisher:
NASA/GSFC HEASARC
Description:
The Canis Major OB1 association has an intriguing scenario of star formation, especially in the region called Canis Major R1 (CMa R1) traditionally assigned to a reflection nebula, but in reality an ionized region. The authors focused on the young stellar population associated with CMa R1, for which previous results from ROSAT, optical, and near-infrared data had revealed two stellar groups with different ages, suggesting a possible mixing of populations originated from distinct star formation episodes (see the <a href="/W3Browse/rosat/cmar1xray.html">table CMAR1XRAY</a>). The authors used X-ray data to characterize the detected sources according to hardness ratios, light curves, and spectra. They also provided estimates of mass and age, using the information from likely counterparts based on the 2MASS catalogue. The 2MASS-derived data on the counterparts, where matched, are provided in the <a href="/W3Browse/xmm-newton/cmaob1nir.html">associated table (CMAOB1NIR)</a>. This table contains a catalog of 387 XMM-Newton sources, of which 78% are confirmed as members or probable members of the CMa R1 association. Flares (or similar events) were observed for 13 sources and the spectra of 21 bright sources could be fitted by a thermal plasma model. Mean values of fits parameters were used to estimate X-ray luminosities. The authors found a minimum value of log(L<sub>X</sub> [erg/s]) = 29.43, indicating that the sample of low-mass stars (M<sub>*</sub> <= 0.5 M<sub>sun</sub>), which are faint X-ray emitters, is incomplete. Among the 250 objects selected as the complete subsample (defining a "best sample"), 171 are found to the east of the cloud, near Z CMa and dense molecular gas, of which 50% of them are young (<5Myr) and 30% are older (>10Myr). The opposite happens to the west, near GU CMa, in areas lacking molecular gas: among 79 objects, 30% are young and 50% are older. These findings confirm that a first episode of distributed star formation occurred in the whole studied region ~10Myr ago and dispersed the molecular gas, while a second, localized episode (<5Myr) took place in the regions where molecular gas is still present. For this work, four fields (each about 30-arcmin diameter with some overlap) were observed with the XMM-Newton satellite. These fields are located inside the arc-shaped ionized nebula, next to Z CMa - Field E (east); around GU CMa - Field W (west); and between both - Field C (center) and Field S (south), as shown in Figure 1 of the reference paper. These observations were performed with the EPIC cameras (MOS1, MOS2, and PN) in full frame mode with a medium filter. The C, W, and S fields had an exposure time without background corrections of about 30 ks while field E had 40 ks. <pre> RA(J2000) | Dec(J2000) | Designation(s) 07 04 18.3 | -11 27 24.0 | CMa cluster east (Field E) 07 02 58.4 | -11 34 44.7 | CMa cluster center (Field C) 07 02 29.5 | -11 47 12.4 | CMa cluster south (Field S) 07 01 23.0 | -11 19 56.6 | CMa cluster west (Field W) </pre> This table was created by the HEASARC in October 2018 based upon the <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/609/A127">CDS Catalog J/A+A/609/A127</a> file tableb1.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
200. 7C 151-MHz Low-Declination Survey Catalog
ID:
ivo://nasa.heasarc/ld7c151mhz
Title:
7C 151-MHz Low-Declination Survey Catalog
Short Name:
LD7C151MHZ
Date:
07 Mar 2025
Publisher:
NASA/GSFC HEASARC
Description:
The Cambridge Low Frequency Synthesis Telescope (CLFST) has been used at 151 MHz to survey a region of 1393 square degrees, in the range of RA from 9<sup>h</sup> to 16<sup>h</sup>, and of Dec from 20<sup>o</sup> to 35<sup>o</sup>, with an angular resolution of 108 x 108cosec(Dec) arcsec<sup>2</sup>. The rms noise in the maps is in general ~ 35 - 55 mJy/beam, but varies considerably and exceeds this in some areas. The authors have extracted sources with signal-to-noise ratio > 5.5, a total of 5526 sources, and this table contains the catalog of their positions and flux densities. This table was created by the HEASARC in October 2010 based on CDS table J/MNRAS/282/779 file 7c_low.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .