IC348CXO - IC 348 Chandra X-Ray Point Source Catalog

Overview

The authors have obtained a deep (53 ks) X-ray image of the very young stellar cluster IC 348 with the Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer on board the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. In this image with a sensitivity limit of ~ 1 x 10²⁸ ergs/s (more than 10 times deeper than their ROSAT images of IC 348), 215 X-ray sources were detected. While 115 of these sources can be identified with known cluster members, 58 X-ray sources are most likely new, still unidentified cluster members. About 80% of all known cluster members with masses between ~0.15 and 2 solar masses are visible as X-ray sources in the ACIS image. X-ray emission at levels of ~10²⁸ ergs/s was discovered from four of 13 known brown dwarfs and from three of 12 brown dwarf candidates in IC 348. X-ray emission was also detected from two deeply embedded objects, presumably class I protostars, south of the cluster center.

Optical and infrared counterparts have been identified for most of the X-ray sources. Some 40 X-ray sources do not have optical or IR counterparts, and are most likely background (probably extragalactic) objects. This number is consistent with the expected number of extragalactic background X-ray sources based on the observed log N - log S statistics from the deep X-ray counts in the Chandra Deep Field South.

Catalog Bibcodes

2001AJ....122..866P
2002AJ....123.1613P

References

Deep Chandra X-ray observatory imaging study of the
very young stellar cluster IC 348.
     Preibisch T., Zinnecker H.
    <Astron. J. 122, 866 (2001)>
    =2001AJ....122..866P
X-ray properties of the young stellar and substellar objects
in the IC 348 cluster: the Chandra view.
     Preibisch T., Zinnecker H.
    <Astron. J. 123, 1613 (2002)>
    =2002AJ....123.1613PP

Provenance

This table was created by the HEASARC in January 2007 based on the merger of CDS table J/AJ/122/866/table1.dat (Table 1 from Preibisch and Zinnecker 2001) with the electronic AJ table version of Table 1 from Preibisch and Zinnecker 2002.

Parameters

Source_Number
A sequential identification number for each X-ray source in this study, in order of increasing J2000 Right Ascension.

Alt_Name
An alternative designation for the X-ray source, using the CXOPZ prefix (Chandra X-ray Observatory, Preibisch & Zinnecker) registered by the authors and its source_number value.

RA
The Right Ascension of the X-ray source in the selected equinox. This parameter was given in J2000 coordinates and to a precision of 0.01 seconds of time in the originating table.

Dec
The Declination of the X-ray source in the selected equinox. This parameter was given in J2000 coordinates and to a precision of 0.1 arcseconds in the originating table. A small offset of 0.51" +/ 0.14" between the declinations in the X-ray and optical coordinate frames has been applied to the X-ray declinations listed in this table.

LII
The Galactic Longitude of the X-ray source.

BII
The Galactic Latitude of the X-ray source.

RA_Error
The X-ray source positional uncertainty in the Right Ascension direction, in arcseconds.

Dec_Error
The X-ray source positional uncertainty in the Declination direction, in arcseconds.

Count_Rate
The exposure-time-corrected X-ray source count rate in the 0.2 - 8.0 keV ACIS energy band, in counts per second.

Count_Rate_Error
The unceratinty in the X-ray source count rate, in counts per second.

Name
The preferred designation for the X-ray source, using the CXOPZ prefix (Chandra X-ray Observatory, Preibisch & Zinnecker) registered by the authors, followed by the 'J' and the usual numeric string format based on the J2000 position truncated to 0.1 seconds of time and 1 arcsecond of declination, e.g., 'CXOPZ J034346.9+321320'.

Optical_IR_ID
The identifications of the X-ray source with an optical and/or infrared counterpart from the catalogs of (i) Herbig (1998, ApJ, 497, 736) if the name begins with an 'H-' prefix, (ii) Luhman et al. (1998, ApJ, 508, 347) or Luhman (1999, ApJ, 525, 466) if the name begins with an 'L-' prefix, or (iii) Najita et al. (2000, ApJ, 541, 977) if the name begins with an 'N-' prefix. Stars known to be foreground or background objects are marked with 'FG' and 'BG', respectively. If no catalogued counterpart is known, the entry '2MASS' means that the X-ray source has a counterpart in the 2MASS point source catalog, while 'noCP' means that no optical or infrared counterpart could be found. Source CXOPZ-J034424.6+321349 is identified with a faint infrared source not included in the 2MASS catalog.

Spect_Type
The spectral type of the counterpart to the X-ray source.

Av
The visual extinction of the counterpart to the X-ray source, in magnitudes.

Av_Flag
This flag parameter for the visual extinction has the following values:

    'i' means that the value has been estimated from the near-infrared colors
    ':' means that, due to a lack of further information, an extinction of
        3.5 magnitudes has been assumed

Ew_Halpha
The equivalent width of the H-alpha emission line, in Angstroms. Negative values denote H-alpha absorption.

kT_Plasma
The best-fit temperature found in a single-component model to the X-ray spectrum, or, if such a model did not yield an acceptable fit, the emission-weighted mean of the best-fit temperature values that were found in a 2-component model of the X-ray spectrum of the source, in keV.

kT_Plasma_Error
The uncertainty in the derived characteristic plasma temperature inferred from X-ray spectral modeling, in keV.

Lx
The extinction-corrected, 0.2 - 10 keV band X-ray luminosity of the source, in erg/s, calculated based on the analysis of the X-ray spectra as described in Section 5 of Preibisch & Zinnecker (2002) and assuming a distance of 310 pc.

Lx_Error
The uncertainty in the X-ray luminosity of the source, in erg/s.

Class
The HEASARC Browse object classification, based on the spectral type of the counterpart when available.

Contact Person

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