The 31 Deg^2 Release of the Stripe 82 X-Ray Survey: The Point Source Catalog

Creators: LaMassa, Stephanie M.; Urry, C. Megan; Cappelluti, Nico; Böhringer, Hans; Comastri, Andrea; Glikman, Eilat; Richards, Gordon; Ananna, Tonima; Brusa, Marcella; Cardamone, Carie; Chon, Gayoung; Civano, Francesca; Farrah, Duncan; Gilfanov, Marat; Greengard, Paul; Komossa, S.; Lira, Paulina; Makler, Martin; Marchesi, Stefano; Pecoraro, Robert; Ranalli, Piero; Salvato, Mara; Schawinski, Kevin; Stern, Daniel; Treister, Ezequiel; Viero, Marco

Abstract

We release the next installment of the Stripe 82 X-ray survey point-source catalog, which currently covers 31.3 deg^2 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Stripe 82 Legacy field. In total, 6181 unique X-ray sources are significantly detected with XMM-Newton (>5σ) and Chandra (>4.5σ). This catalog release includes data from XMM-Newton cycle AO 13, which approximately doubled the Stripe 82X survey area. The flux limits of the Stripe 82X survey are 8.7 × 10^(−16) erg s^(−1) cm^(−2), 4.7 × 10^(−15) erg s^(−1) cm^(−2), and 2.1 × 10^(−15) erg s^(−1) cm^(−2) in the soft (0.5–2 keV), hard (2–10 keV), and full bands (0.5–10 keV), respectively, with approximate half-area survey flux limits of 5.4 × 10^(−15) erg s^(−1) cm^(−2), 2.9 × 10^(−14) erg s^(−1) cm^(−2), and 1.7 × 10^(−14) erg s^(−1) cm^(−2). We matched the X-ray source lists to available multi-wavelength catalogs, including updated matches to the previous release of the Stripe 82X survey; 88% of the sample is matched to a multi-wavelength counterpart. Due to the wide area of Stripe 82X and rich ancillary multi-wavelength data, including coadded SDSS photometry, mid-infrared WISE coverage, near-infrared coverage from UKIDSS and VISTA Hemisphere Survey, ultraviolet coverage from GALEX, radio coverage from FIRST, and far-infrared coverage from Herschel, as well as existing ~30% optical spectroscopic completeness, we are beginning to uncover rare objects, such as obscured high-luminosity active galactic nuclei at high-redshift. The Stripe 82X point source catalog is a valuable data set for constraining how this population grows and evolves, as well as for studying how they interact with the galaxies in which they live.

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© 2016 The American Astronomical Society. Received 2015 September 29; accepted 2015 November 28; published 2016 February 1. We thank the anonymous referee for feedback that helped improve the manuscript. S.M.L. acknowledges support from grant number NNX15AJ40G. C.M.U. gratefully acknowledges support from Yale University. C.M.U. and S.K. would like to thank the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (Santa Barbara) for their hospitality and support; the KITP is supported by NSF grant No. NSF PHY11-25915. M.B. acknowledges support from the FPY Career Integration Grant "eEASY" (CIG 321913). Support for the work of E.T. was provided by the Center of Excellence in Astrophysics and Associated Technologies (PFB 06), by the FONDECYT grant 1120061 and the Anillo project ACT1101. K.S. gratefully acknowledges support from Swiss National Science Foundation Grant PP00P2_138979/1. Funding for the SDSS and SDSS-II has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Participating Institutions, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Japanese Monbukagakusho, the Max Planck Society, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England. The SDSS Web Site is http://www.sdss.org/. The SDSS is managed by the Astrophysical Research Consortium for the Participating Institutions. The Participating Institutions are the American Museum of Natural History, Astrophysical Institute Potsdam, University of Basel, University of Cambridge, Case Western Reserve University, University of Chicago, Drexel University, Fermilab, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Japan Participation Group, Johns Hopkins University, the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics, the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, the Korean Scientist Group, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (LAMOST), Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy (MPIA), the Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics (MPA), New Mexico State University, Ohio State University, University of Pittsburgh, University of Portsmouth, Princeton University, the United States Naval Observatory, and the University of Washington. Funding for SDSS-III has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Participating Institutions, the National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. The SDSS-III web site is http://www.sdss3.org/. SDSS-III is managed by the Astrophysical Research Consortium for the Participating Institutions of the SDSS-III Collaboration including the University of Arizona, the Brazilian Participation Group, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Florida, the French Participation Group, the German Participation Group, Harvard University, the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, the Michigan State/Notre Dame/JINA Participation Group, Johns Hopkins University, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, New Mexico State University, New York University, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, University of Portsmouth, Princeton University, the Spanish Participation Group, University of Tokyo, University of Utah, Vanderbilt University, University of Virginia, University of Washington, and Yale University. This publication makes use of data products from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, which is a joint project of the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

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