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Statistical Characterization of the Chandra Source Catalog | Francis A. Primini
; John C. Houck
; John E. Davis
; Michael A. Nowak
; Ian N. Evans
; Kenny J. Glotfelty
; Craig S. Anderson
; Nina R. Bonaventura
; Judy C. Chen
; Stephen M. Doe
; Janet D. Evans
; Giuseppina Fabbiano
; Elizabeth C. Galle
; Danny G. Gibbs II
; John D. Grier
; Roger M. Hain
; Diane M. Hall
; Peter N. Harbo
; Xiangqun
; Margarita Karovska
; Vinay L. Kashyap
; Jennifer Lauer
; Michael L. McCollough
; Jonathan C. McDowell
; Joseph B. Miller
; Arik W. Mitschang
; Douglas L. Morgan
; Amy E. Mossman
; Joy S. Nichols
; David A. Plummer
; Brian L. Refsdal
; Arnold H. Rots
; Aneta Siemiginowska
; Beth A. Sundheim
; Michael S. Tibbetts
; David W. Van Stone
; Sherry L. Winkelman
; Panagoula Zografou
; | Date: |
3 May 2011 | Abstract: | The first release of the Chandra Source Catalog (CSC) contains ~95,000 X-ray
sources in a total area of ~0.75% of the entire sky, using data from ~3,900
separate ACIS observations of a multitude of different types of X-ray sources.
In order to maximize the scientific benefit of such a large, heterogeneous
data-set, careful characterization of the statistical properties of the
catalog, i.e., completeness, sensitivity, false source rate, and accuracy of
source properties, is required. Characterization efforts of other, large
Chandra catalogs, such as the ChaMP Point Source Catalog (Kim et al. 2007) or
the 2 Mega-second Deep Field Surveys (Alexander et al. 2003), while
informative, cannot serve this purpose, since the CSC analysis procedures are
significantly different and the range of allowable data is much less
restrictive. We describe here the characterization process for the CSC. This
process includes both a comparison of real CSC results with those of other,
deeper Chandra catalogs of the same targets and extensive simulations of
blank-sky and point source populations. | Source: | arXiv, 1105.0691 | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites |
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