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StrayCats. II. An Updated Catalog of NuSTAR Stray Light Observations

Ludlam, R. M. ORCID icon
Grefenstette, B. W. ORCID icon
Brumback, M. C. ORCID icon
Tomsick, J. A. ORCID icon
Buisson, D. J. K. ORCID icon
Coughenour, B. M. ORCID icon
Mastroserio, G. ORCID icon
Wik, D. ORCID icon
Krivonos, R. ORCID icon
Jaodand, A. D. ORCID icon
Madsen, K. K. ORCID icon
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Abstract

We present an updated catalog of StrayCats (a catalog of NuSTAR stray light observations of X-ray sources) that includes nearly 18 additional months of observations. StrayCats v2 has an added 53 sequence IDs, 106 rows, and three new identified stray light (SL) sources in comparison to the original catalog. The total catalog now has 489 unique sequence IDs, 862 entries, and 83 confirmed StrayCats sources. Additionally, we provide new resources for the community to gauge the utility and spectral state of the source in a given observation. We have created long-term light curves for each identified SL source using MAXI and Swift/BAT data when available. Further, source extraction regions for 632 identified SL observations were created and are available to the public. In this paper we present an overview of the updated catalog and new resources for each identified StrayCats SL source.

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© 2022. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society. Original content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI. Received 2022 April 29; revised 2022 June 10; accepted 2022 June 20; published 2022 July 26. Support for this work was provided by NASA through the NASA Hubble Fellowship grant No. HST-HF2-51440.001 awarded by the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Incorporated, under NASA contract NAS5-26555. This work was additionally supported by NASA under grant No. 80NSSC19K1023 issued through the NNH18ZDA001N Astrophysics Data Analysis Program (ADAP). This research has made use of the NuSTAR Data Analysis Software (NuSTARDAS) jointly developed by the ASI Science Data Center (ASDC, Italy) and the California Institute of Technology (USA).

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