NGC 404 Chandra X-Ray Point Source Catalog

This table contains a comprehensive X-ray point-source catalog of NGC 404, the closest face-on (inclination angle of 11 degrees) S0 galaxy to the Milky Way, which was obtained as part of the Chandra Local Volume Survey (CLVS) and originally published in Binder et al. (2013). A new 97-ks Chandra ACIS-S observation of NGC 404 was combined with archival observations for a total exposure of ~123 ks. This survey yields 74 highly significant X-ray point sources and is sensitive to a limiting unabsorbed luminosity of ~6 x 10&lt;sup&gt;35&lt;/sup&gt; erg/s in the 0.35-8 keV band. To constrain the nature of each X-ray source, cross-correlations with multi-wavelength data were generated. The authors searched overlapping Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations for optical counterparts to their X-ray detections, but found only two X-ray sources with candidate optical counterparts. They found 21 likely low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs), although this number is a lower limit due to the difficulties in separating LMXBs from background active galactic nuclei (AGN). The X-ray luminosity functions (XLFs) in both the soft and hard energy bands are presented in the 2013 reference paper. The XLFs in the soft band (0.5-2 keV) and the hard band (2-8 keV) have a limiting luminosity at the 90% completeness limit of 10&lt;sup&gt;35&lt;/sup&gt; erg/s and 10&lt;sup&gt;36&lt;/sup&gt; erg/s, respectively, significantly lower than previous X-ray studies of NGC 404. The authors find the XLFs to be consistent with those of other X-ray populations dominated by LMXBs. However, the number of luminous (&gt;10&lt;sup&gt;37&lt;/sup&gt; erg/s) X-ray sources per unit stellar mass in NGC 404 is lower than is observed for other galaxies. The relative lack of luminous XRBs may be due to a population of LMXBs with main-sequence companions formed during an epoch of elevated star formation ~0.5 Gyr ago. NGC 404 was observed during Chandra X-Ray Observatory Cycle 12 on 2010 October 21-22 for 97 ks using the ACIS-S array (Obs. ID 12339). The authors additionally utilized archival observations: NGC 404 was observed on 1999 December 19 (Obs. ID 870) for ~24 ks and on 2000 August 30 (Obs. ID 384) for ~2 ks, both using the ACIS-S array. The authors created images in the following energy bands (keV): 0.35-8.0, 0.35-1.0, 1.0-2.0, 2.0-8.0 with bin sizes of 1, 2, 3, and 4. The iterative source detection strategy that was used is described in Section 2.3 of Binder et al. (2012, ApJ, 758, 15). ACIS-Extract (AE) was run a final time on the source list that was produces after an initial run of wavdetect followed by several iterations of AE, and the Poisson probability of not being a source (pns) value was computed in each of the following nine energy bands: 0.5 - 8.0, 0.5 - 2.0, 2.0 - 8.0, 0.5 - 1.0, 1.0 - 2.0, 2.0 - 4.0, 4.0 - 8.0, 0.35 - 1.0 or 0.35 - 8.0 keV. To be included in the final NGC 404 catalog, a source was required to have a pns value less than 4 x 10&lt;sup&gt;-6&lt;/sup&gt; in any of the nine energy bands. The final CLVS source catalog for NGC 404 contains 74 sources. Given the survey size of these NGC 404 observations, there are expected to be ~1.6 false sources included in this NGC 404 final source catalog. Three HST fields were used to search for optical counterparts for each of the X-ray sources. One field (labeled &quot;DEEP&quot;) was taken as part of the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) Nearby Galaxy Survey Treasury (ANGST, GO-10915; Dalcanton et al. 2009, ApJS, 183, 67), while the other two shallower fields (labeled &quot;NE&quot; and &quot;SW&quot;) were obtained as part of GO-11986. Details of the HST data acquisition and data reduction are provided in Williams et al. (2010, ApJ, 716, 71). This table was created by the HEASARC in September 2015 primarily based on &lt;a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/ApJ/763/128"&gt;CDS Catalog J/ApJ/763/128&lt;/a&gt; files table3.dat, table4.dat, table5.dat, table6.dat, table10.dat, table12.dat and table13.dat (Binder et al. 2013) which contain the properties of the 74 Chandra point sources found in this study.and of their multi-wavelength counterparts. As noted above, the HEASARC has added an extra parameter b4_flux which was taken from the machine-readable version of Table 5 of Binder et al. (2015). This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

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