STATISTICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE CHANDRA SOURCE CATALOG

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 ~3900 separate ACIS observations of a multitude of different types of X-ray sources. In order to maximize the scientific benefit of such a large, heterogen...

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Main Authors: Houck, John C. (Contributor), Davis, John E. (Contributor), Nowak, Michael A. (Contributor)
Other Authors: MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing, 2015-02-27T14:51:10Z.
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