NGC 1333 Chandra X-Ray Point Source Catalog

NGC 1333, a highly active star formation region within the Perseus molecular cloud complex, has been observed on 2000 July 12.96 - 13.48 with the ACIS-I detector on board the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. The aim point of the array was 3 29 06.1, +31 19 38 (J2000,0 RA and Dec), the satellite roll angle was 95.7 degrees, and the effective exposure time after removing time intervals contaminated by background flaring was 37.8 ks. In this image with a sensitivity limit in luminosity of ~10&lt;sup&gt;28&lt;/sup&gt; erg/s for X-ray sources at the 318 pc distance of NGC 1333, 127 X-ray sources were detected, most with sub-arcsecond positional accuracy. While 32 of these sources appear to be foreground stars and extragalactic background objects, 95 X-ray sources are identified with known cluster members. The X-ray luminosity function of the discovered young stellar object (YSO) population spans a range of log L&lt;sub&gt;X&lt;/sub&gt; ~= 28.0 - 31.5 erg s&lt;sup&gt;-1&lt;/sup&gt; in the 0.5 - 8 keV band, and the absorption column densities range from log N&lt;sub&gt;H&lt;/sub&gt; ~=20 to 23 cm&lt;sup&gt;-2&lt;/sup&gt;. Most of the sources have plasma temperatures between 0.6 and 3 keV, but a few sources show higher temperatures up to ~7 keV. Comparison with K-band source counts indicates that all of the known cluster members with K &lt; 12 and about half of the members with K &gt; 12 were detected. (K ~= 11, the peak of the K-band luminosity function, corresponds to 0.2 - 0.4 M_solar stars for a cluster age of ~1 Myr). Seven of the 20 known YSOs in NGC 1333 which are producing jets or molecular outflows were detected, as well as one deeply embedded object without outflows. No evident difference in X-ray emission of young stars with and without outflows is found. This present table contains X-ray, optical and near-infrared information on the 109 X-ray sources that were detected above a source significance threshold of 1 x 10&lt;sup&gt;-6&lt;/sup&gt; in any of 3 energy bands: soft: 0.5 - 2.0 keV, hard: 2.0 - 8.0 keV, or full: 0.5 - 8.0 keV, excluding 8 sources that were deemed to be spurious on visual examination of the images. The faintest on-axis source emerging from the wavelet detection procedure has 5 extracted counts, corresponding to a source of log L&lt;sub&gt;X&lt;/sub&gt; ~ 28.0 in the total (0.5 - 8.0 keV) band for a source with negligible interstellar absorption (A&lt;sub&gt;V&lt;/sub&gt; ~ 1) and a typical source spectrum of a kT ~ 1 keV thermal plasma. This limit increases to 28.6 (29.3) if the absorption is increased to A&lt;sub&gt;V&lt;/sub&gt; ~ 5 (10). The sensitivity decreases by a factor of 4 at the edge of the field compared to the central regions. 80 of the significant 109 sources (73%) have counterparts in a non-X-ray band. This table does not include 18 tentative X-ray sources listed in Table 3 of the reference paper that were found by the authors by searching for concentrations of photons spatially coincident with known sources from near-IR, mm/sub-mm, and radio catalogs of this region which did not reach the detection significance given above. Most of these tentative sources are believed to be real sources. This table was created by the HEASARC in March 2007 based on &lt;a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/ApJ/575/354"&gt;CDS catalog J/ApJ/575/354&lt;/a&gt; files table1.dat and table2.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

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