The Chandra Deep Field-South Survey

This WWW site presents results from the 4 Ms and 2 Ms Chandra Deep Field-South survey. The basic X-ray and multiwavelength 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 Based on the 4 Ms Chandra Data

An X-ray Detected Group of Quiescent Early-Type Galaxies at z = 1.6 in the Chandra Deep Field-South

Tanaka M., Finoguenov A., Mirkazemi S.M., Wilman D.J., Mulchaey J.S., Ueda Y., Xue Y.Q., Brandt W.N., 2012, PASJ, submitted

Tracking Down the Source Population Responsible for the Unresolved Cosmic 6-8 keV Background

Derived properties for the sources in Sample A (ASCII; machine readable)

Xue Y.Q., Wang S.X., Brandt W.N., Luo B., Alexander D.M., Bauer F.E., Comastri A., Fabian A.C., Gilli R., Lehmer B.D., Schneider D.P., Vignali C., Young M., 2012, ApJ, in press

The 4 Ms Chandra Deep Field-South Number Counts Apportioned by Source Class: Pervasive Active Galactic Nuclei and the Ascent of Normal Galaxies

Data files for number counts (ASCII; machine readable)

Lehmer B.D., Xue Y.Q., Brandt W.N., Alexander D.M., Bauer F.E., Brusa M., Comastri A., Gilli R., Hornschemeier A.E., Luo B., Paolillo M., Ptak A., Shemmer O., Schneider D.P., Tozzi P., Vignali C., 2012, ApJ, 752, #46

The Cosmic History of Hot Gas Cooling and Radio Active Galactic Nucleus Activity in Massive Early-Type Galaxies

Danielson A.L.R., Lehmer B.D., Alexander D.M., Brandt W.N., Luo B., Miller N., Xue Y.Q., Stott J.P., 2012, MNRAS, 422, 494 (arXiv:1202.0041 [astro-ph])

Variability-Selected Low-Luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei in the 4 Ms Chandra Deep Field-South

Young M., Brandt W.N., Xue Y.Q., Paolillo M., Alexander D.M., Bauer F.E., Lehmer B.D., Luo B., Shemmer O., Schneider D.P., Vignali C., 2012, ApJ, 748, #124 (arXiv:1201.4391 [astro-ph])

The Radio/X-ray Relation as a Star-Formation Indicator: Results from the VLA E-CDF-S Survey

Vattakunnel S., Tozzi P., Matteucci F., Padovani P., Miller N., Bonzini M., Mainieri V., Paolillo M., Vincoletto L., Brandt W.N., Luo B., Kellermann K.I., Xue Y.Q., 2012, MNRAS, 420, 2190 (arXiv:1111.3285 [astro-ph])

Revealing a Population of Heavily Obscured Active Galactic Nuclei at z ~ 0.5-1 in the Chandra Deep Field-South

Table 1 - List of ISX and ISN Sources Used in the X-ray Stacking Analyses (ASCII; machine readable)

Luo B., Brandt W.N., Xue Y.Q., Alexander D.M., Brusa M., Bauer F.E., Comastri A., Fabian A.C., Gilli R., Lehmer B.D., Rafferty D.A., Schneider D.P., Vignali C., 2011, ApJ, 740, #37 (arXiv:1107.3148 [astro-ph])

X-ray Spectral Constraints for z ~ 2 Massive Galaxies: The Identification of Reflection-Dominated Active Galactic Nuclei

Alexander D.M., Bauer F.E., Brandt W.N., Daddi E., Hickox R.C., Lehmer B.D., Luo B., Xue Y.Q., Young M., Comastri A., Del Moro A., Fabian A.C., Gilli R., Goulding A.D., Mainieri V., Mullaney J.R., Paolillo M., Rafferty D.A., Schneider D.P., Shemmer O., Vignali C., 2011, ApJ, 738, #44 (arXiv:1106.1443 [astro-ph])

The Chandra Deep Field-South Survey: 4 Ms Source Catalogs

Postage stamp images for Figure 12a - WFI R-band
Postage stamp images for Figure 12b - GEMS HST z-band
Postage stamp images for Figure 12c - SIMPLE IRAC 3.6-micron

Table 3 - Main Chandra Source Catalog (ASCII; machine readable)
Table 6 - Supplementary Optically Bright Chandra Source Catalog (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 (Section 7.1): 0.5-8 keV 0.5-2 keV 2-8 keV

Xue Y.Q., Luo B., Brandt W.N., Bauer F.E., Lehmer B.D., Broos P.S., Schneider D.P., Alexander D.M., Brusa M., Comastri A., Fabian A.C., Gilli R., Hasinger G., Hornschemeier A.E., Koekemoer A.M., Liu T., Mainieri V., Paolillo M., Rafferty D.A., Rosati P., Shemmer O., Silverman J.D., Smail I., Tozzi P., Vignali C., 2011, ApJS, 195, #10 (arXiv:1105.5643 [astro-ph])

A Compton-Thick Active Galactic Nucleus at z ~ 5 in the 4 Ms Chandra Deep Field-South

Gilli R., Su J., Norman C., Vignali C., Comastri A., Tozzi P., Rosati P., Stiavelli M., Brandt W.N., Xue Y.Q., Luo B., Castellano M., Fontana A., Fiore F., Mainieri V., Ptak A., 2011, ApJ, 730, #L28 (arXiv:1102.4714 [astro-ph])

Research Papers Based on the 2 Ms Chandra Data

Supermassive Black Hole Growth in Starburst Galaxies Over Cosmic Time: Constraints from the Deepest Chandra Fields

Table 2 - Photometric Redshift Catalog for the E-CDF-S (ASCII; machine readable)
Table 3 - Photometric Redshift Catalog for the CDF-N (ASCII; machine readable)

D.A. Rafferty, W.N. Brandt, D.M. Alexander, Y.Q. Xue, F.E. Bauer, B.D. Lehmer, B. Luo, C. Papovich, 2011, ApJ, 742, #3 (arXiv:1108.3229 [astro-ph])

Color-Magnitude Relations of Active and Non-Active Galaxies in the Chandra Deep Fields: High-Redshift Constraints and Stellar-Mass Selection Effects

Table 5 - Properties of Sample A Galaxies (ASCII; machine readable)

Y.Q. Xue, W.N. Brandt, B. Luo, D.A. Rafferty, D.M. Alexander, F.E. Bauer, B.D. Lehmer, D.P. Schneider, J.D. Silverman, 2010, ApJ, 720, 368

Radiation Pressure, Absorption, and AGN Feedback in the Chandra Deep Fields

S.I. Raimundo, A.C. Fabian, F.E. Bauer, D.M. Alexander, W.N. Brandt, B. Luo, R.V. Vasudevan, Y.Q. Xue, 2010, MNRAS, 408, 1714

Supermassive Black-Hole Growth Over Cosmic Time: Active Galaxy Demography, Physics, and Ecology from Chandra Surveys

W.N. Brandt, D.M. Alexander, 2010, PNAS, 107, 7184

Identifications and Photometric Redshifts of the 2 Ms Chandra Deep Field-South Sources

Table 2 - List of Primary Counterparts (ASCII; machine readable)
Table 3 - List of Secondary Counterparts (ASCII; machine readable)
Table 4 - Photometric Catalog (ASCII; machine readable)
Table 4 - Photometric Catalog (FITS; machine readable)
Table 5 - Photometric Redshift Catalog (ASCII; machine readable)

B. Luo, W.N. Brandt, Y.Q. Xue, M. Brusa, D.M. Alexander, F.E. Bauer, A. Comastri, A. Koekemoer, B.D. Lehmer, V. Mainieri, D.A. Rafferty, D.P. Schneider, J.D. Silverman, C. Vignali, 2010, ApJS, 187, 560

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, 179, 19

Contact and Funding Information

Niel Brandt, Bin Luo, Yongquan Xue, and Franz Bauer for the Chandra Deep Field-South Team (niel @ astro.psu.edu, bluo @ head.cfa.harvard.edu, xuey @ astro.psu.edu, fbauer @ spacescience.org).

Support for this work was provided by NASA through Chandra Awards SP8-9003A and SP1-12007A issued by the Chandra X-ray Observatory Center, which is operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.