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[90.08] Chandra Observations of the Bootes 9 square degree Field

A.T. Kenter, W.R. Forman, P.J. Green, C.J. Jones, S.S. Murray, A. Vikhlinin (Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), A. Dey, B.T. Jannuzi, J. Najita (National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO)), B.R. McNamara, J.C. Shields (Ohio University), C.S. Kochanek (The Ohio State University)

We present X-ray results from Chandra observations of the Bootes 9 square degree survey field. This field corresponds to the northern half of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) Deep Wide Field Survey (NDWFS).

In March 2003, the Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO) completed 126 ACIS-I observations each of approximately 5ksec seconds in duration. These observations were centered on right ascension \alpha_J2000 \approx 14^hr32^min and declination \delta_J2000 \approx 34^\deg06^min and were arranged in a mosaic with a total field of view of ~9.3 square degrees. This unique set of observations allows the calculation of X-ray source statistics over a wide, contiguous field of view with unprecedented angular resolution and uniform coverage.

In our full band (0.5-7keV) sample we detect ~3000 point and ~40 extended sources. Limiting the point source list to sources with \ge 4 counts, and assuming a simple AGN-type power law spectrum, these observations reach a flux of ~4 \times 10^-15~ergs~cm^-2~s^-1 in the 0.5-2~keV band, ~2 \times 10^-14~ergs~cm^-2~s^-1 in the 2-10keV band and ~8 \times 10^-15~ergs~cm^-2~s^-1 in the 5-10keV band.

We present the number of sources per flux density interval (N(S)). We present hardness ratios and we examine the distribution of X-ray sources for evidence of large scale structure. We discuss our analysis techniques and related Monte Carlo simulations. Funding for this research was provided in part by NASA contracts NAS8-38248, NAS8-01130,NAS8-39073 and GO grant GO3-4176A.

The author(s) of this abstract have provided an email address for comments about the abstract: akenter@cfa.harvard.edu

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