Chandra Multiwavelength Project. II. First Results of X‐Ray Source Properties
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Kim, D.‐W.
Green, P. J.
Cameron, R. A.
Freeman, P.
Ghosh, H.
Harnden, F. R. Jr.
Schlegel, E. M.
Silverman, J. D.
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Kim, D.‐W., B. J. Wilkes, P. J. Green, R. A. Cameron, J. J. Drake, N. R. Evans, P. Freeman, et al. 2004. “Chandra Multiwavelength Project. II. First Results of X‐Ray Source Properties.” The Astrophysical Journal 600 (1) (January): 59–69. doi:10.1086/379820.Abstract
The Chandra Multiwavelength Project (ChaMP) is a wide-area (~14 deg2) survey of serendipitous Chandra X-ray sources, aiming to establish fair statistical samples covering a wide range of characteristics (such as absorbed active galactic nuclei [AGNs] and high-z clusters of galaxies) at flux levels (fX ~ 10-15 to 10-14 ergs s-1 cm-2) intermediate between the Chandra Deep Field surveys and previous missions. We present the first results of X-ray source properties obtained from the initial sample of 62 observations. The data have been uniformly reduced and analyzed with techniques specifically developed for the ChaMP and then validated by visual examination. Utilizing only near-on-axis X-ray-bright sources (to avoid problems caused by incompleteness and the Eddington bias), we derive the log N- log S relation in soft (0.5-2 keV) and hard (2-8 keV) energy bands. The ChaMP data are consistent with previous results of ROSAT, ASCA, and Chandra Deep Field surveys. In particular, our data nicely fill in the flux gap in the hard band between the Chandra Deep Field data and the previous ASCA data. We check whether there is any systematic difference in the source density between cluster and noncluster fields and also search for field-to-field variation, both of which have been previously reported. We found no significant field-to-field cosmic variation in either test within the statistics (~1 σ) across the flux levels included in our sample. In the X-ray color-color plot, most sources fall in the location characterized by photon index = 1.5-2 and NH = a few × 1020 cm2, suggesting that they are typical broadline AGNs. There also exist a considerable number of sources with peculiar X-ray colors (e.g., highly absorbed, very hard, very soft). We confirm a trend that on average the X-ray color hardens as the count rate decreases. Since the hardening is confined to the softest energy band (0.3-0.9 keV), we conclude that it is most likely due to absorption. We cross-correlate the X-ray sources with other catalogs and describe their properties in terms of optical color, X-ray-to-optical luminosity ratio, and X-ray colors.Terms of Use
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