Chandra Orion Ultradeep Project: Observations and Source Lists
Abstract
We present a description of the data reduction methods and the derived catalog of more than 1600 X-ray point sources from the exceptionally deep 2003 January Chandra X-Ray Observatory (Chandra) observation of the Orion Nebula Cluster and embedded populations around OMC-1. The observation was obtained with Chandra's Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS) and has been nicknamed the Chandra Orion Ultradeep Project (COUP). With an 838 ks exposure made over a continuous period of 13.2 days, the COUP observation provides the most uniform and comprehensive data set on the X-ray emission of normal stars ever obtained in the history of X-ray astronomy.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
- Pub Date:
- October 2005
- DOI:
- 10.1086/432092
- arXiv:
- arXiv:astro-ph/0410136
- Bibcode:
- 2005ApJS..160..319G
- Keywords:
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- ISM: Individual: Name: Orion Nebula;
- ISM: Individual: Alphanumeric: OMC-1;
- Galaxy: Open Clusters and Associations: Individual: Name: Orion;
- Stars: Early-Type;
- Stars: Pre-Main-Sequence;
- X-Rays: Stars;
- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 52 pages, 11 figures, 12 tables. Accepted for publication in ApJS, special issue dedicated to Chandra Orion Ultradeep Project. A version with high quality figures can be found at http://www.astro.psu.edu/users/gkosta/COUP_Methodology.pdf
