Groth-Westphal Strip Chandra X-Ray Point Source Catalog

This table contains the optical and X-ray spectral properties of the sources detected in a 200-ks Chandra observation of part of the Groth-Westphal Strip (GWS) region, using the ACIS-I instrument. The authors present a relatively simple method for the detection of X-ray point sources and the calculation of limiting sensitivities, which they argue is at least as sensitive and more self-consistent than previous methods presented in the literature. A total of 158 distinct X-ray sources are included in this point-source catalogue in the ACIS-I area with a threshold Poisson detection probability of 4 x 10<sup>-6</sup>. The number counts show a relative dearth of X-ray sources in this region. A wealth of optical photometric and spectroscopic data are available in this field providing optical identifications and redshift determinations for the X-ray population. The optical photometry and spectroscopy used here are primarily from the Deep Extragalactic Evolutionary Probe 2 (DEEP2) survey with additional redshifts obtained from the literature. These are complemented with the deeper (r ~ 26 mag) multiwaveband data (ugriz) from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey to estimate photometric redshifts and to optically identify sources fainter than the DEEP2 magnitude limit (R<sub>AB</sub> ~ 24.5 mag). The authors focus their study on the 2 - 10 keV selected sample comprising 97 sources to the flux limit ~8 x 10<sup>-16</sup> erg/s/cm<sup>2</sup>, this being the most complete in terms of optical identification rate (86 per cent) and redshift determination fraction (63 per cent; both spectroscopic and photometric). Chandra observed the GWS, which is part of the Extended Groth Strip (EGS) region, on three separate occasions between 2002 August 11 and 22, using ACIS-I as the prime instrument. The S2 and S3 chips of the ACIS-S array were also operating during the observation, but as these are far off-axis their data are not considered further. The sequence number identifying the observations was 900144 and the three observation ID numbers (3305 on 2002-08-11, 4357 on 2002-08-12, and 4365 on 2002-08-21). This table was created by the HEASARC in July 2007 based on the merger of <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/MNRAS/356/568">CDS Catalog J/MNRAS/356/568</a> file table3.dat and <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/MNRAS/371/221">CDS Catalog J/MNRAS/371/221</a> file table2.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

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