The Chandra Deep Field-South Survey: 7 Ms Source Catalogs
Smail, I.; Hornschemeier, A. E.; Alexander, D. M.; Bauer, F. E.; Brandt, W. N.; Vignali, C.; Gilli, R.; Ranalli, P.; Comastri, A.; Tozzi, P.; Xue, Y. Q.; Mainieri, V.; Luo, B.; Rosati, P.; Paolillo, M.; Koekemoer, A.; Sun, M.; Yang, G.; Vito, F.; Schneider, D. P.; Wang, J. -X.; Shemmer, O.; Liu, T.; Gu, Q. -S.; Lehmer, B.; Basu-Zych, A. R.
China, United States, United Kingdom, Chile, Italy, Germany, Sweden
Abstract
We present X-ray source catalogs for the ≈7 Ms exposure of the Chandra Deep Field-South (CDF-S), which covers a total area of 484.2 arcmin2. Utilizing WAVDETECT for initial source detection and ACIS Extract for photometric extraction and significance assessment, we create a main source catalog containing 1008 sources that are detected in up to three X-ray bands: 0.5-7.0 keV, 0.5-2.0 keV, and 2-7 keV. A supplementary source catalog is also provided, including 47 lower-significance sources that have bright ({K}s≤slant 23) near-infrared counterparts. We identify multiwavelength counterparts for 992 (98.4%) of the main-catalog sources, and we collect redshifts for 986 of these sources, including 653 spectroscopic redshifts and 333 photometric redshifts. Based on the X-ray and multiwavelength properties, we identify 711 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) from the main-catalog sources. Compared to the previous ≈4 Ms CDF-S catalogs, 291 of the main-catalog sources are new detections. We have achieved unprecedented X-ray sensitivity with average flux limits over the central ≈1 arcmin2 region of ≈1.9 × 10-17, 6.4 × 10-18, and 2.7 × 10-17 erg cm-2 s-1 in the three X-ray bands, respectively. We provide cumulative number-count measurements observing, for the first time, that normal galaxies start to dominate the X-ray source population at the faintest 0.5-2.0 keV flux levels. The highest X-ray source density reaches ≈50,500 deg-2, and 47% ± 4% of these sources are AGNs (≈23,900 deg-2).