Chandra Multi-wavelength Project (ChaMP). II. First Results of X-ray Source Properties

Abstract

We present the first results of ChaMP X-ray source properties obtained from the initial sample of 62 observations. The data have been uniformly reduced and analyzed with techniques specifically developed for the ChaMP and then validated by visual examination. Utilizing only near on-axis, bright X-ray sources (to avoid problems caused by incompleteness and the Eddington bias), we derive the Log(N)-Log(S) relation in soft (0.5-2 keV) and hard (2-8 keV) energy bands. The ChaMP data are consistent with previous results of ROSAT, ASCA and Chandra deep surveys. In particular, our data nicely fill in the flux gap in the hard band between the Chandra Deep Field data and the previous ASCA data. We check whether there is any systematic difference in the source density between cluster and non-cluster fields and also search for field-to-field variations, both of which have been previously reported. We found no significant field-to-field cosmic variation in either test within the statistics (~1 sigma) across the flux levels included in our sample. In the X-ray color-color plot, most sources fall in the location characterized by photon index = 1.5-2 and NH = a few x 10^20 cm^2, suggesting that they are typical broad-line AGNs. There also exist a considerable number of sources with peculiar X-ray colors (e.g., highly absorbed, very hard, very soft). We confirm a trend that on average the X-ray color hardens as the count rate decreases. Since the hardening is confined to the softest energy band (0.3-0.9 keV), we conclude it is most likely due to absorption. We cross-correlate the X-ray sources with other catalogs and describe their properties in terms of optical color, X-ray-to-optical luminosity ratio and X-ray colors.

26 pages, PDF, including 9 figures. Accepted in Aug 2003 for publication in ApJ. See also an accompanying X-ray paper by Kim et al. (2003) and a follow-up optical paper by Green et al. (2003) in the ChaMP web site http://hea-www.harvard.edu/CHAMP/

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