The 2 Ms Chandra Deep Field-South Survey

This WWW site presents results from the 2 Ms Chandra Deep Field-South survey. This survey is composed of 23 separate Chandra ACIS-I observations with a total exposure of 1.911 Ms. The total solid angle covered by these observations is about 436 square arcmin, and 578 X-ray point sources are detected.

The basic X-ray and optical properties of the detected sources indicate a variety of source types. Active galaxies dominate the number of detected sources, but a significant number of starburst and normal galaxies are detected as well. Further investigations of the detected sources are underway.

Also see the WWW page for the 1 Ms Chandra Deep Field-South Survey.

Research Papers

The Chandra Deep Field-South Survey: 2 Ms Source Catalogs

All the "postage stamp" images for Figure 9

Table 2 - Main Chandra Source Catalog (ASCII; machine readable)
Table 5 - Supplementary CDF-S plus E-CDF-S Chandra Source Catalog (ASCII; machine readable)
Table 6 - Supplementary Optically Bright Chandra Source Catalog (ASCII; machine readable)
Figure 15 data - Cumulative Number Counts (ASCII; machine readable)

CDF-S FITS images (Figure 1): 0.5-8 keV 0.5-2 keV 2-8 keV

CDF-S FITS exposure maps (Figure 2): 0.5-8 keV 0.5-2 keV 2-8 keV

CDF-S background images: 0.5-8 keV 0.5-2 keV 2-8 keV

B. Luo, F.E. Bauer, W.N. Brandt, D.M. Alexander, B.D. Lehmer, D.P. Schneider, M. Brusa, A. Comastri, A.C. Fabian, A. Finoguenov, R. Gilli, G. Hasinger, A.E. Hornschemeier, A. Koekemoer, V. Mainieri, M. Paolillo, P. Rosati, O. Shemmer, J.D. Silverman, I. Smail, A.T. Steffen, and C. Vignali, 2008, ApJS, in press

Contact and Funding Information

Bin Luo, Franz Bauer, and Niel Brandt for the Chandra Deep Field-South Team (lbin @ astro.psu.edu, feb @ astro.columbia.edu, niel @ astro.psu.edu).

Support for this work was provided by NASA through Chandra Award SP8-9003A (BL, FEB, WNB) issued by the Chandra X-ray Observatory Center, which is operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. We also acknowledge the financial support of the Royal Society (DMA and IRS), the Science and Technology Facilities Council fellowship program (BDL), NSF grant 06-7634 (DPS), and contract ASI-INAF I/023/05/0 and grant PRIN-MIUR 2006-02-5203 (AC, RG, and CV).