AN INTRODUCTION TO THE CHANDRA CARINA COMPLEX PROJECT
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Schulz, Norbert S.
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April 2011
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Astrophysical Journal. Supplement Series
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IOP Publishing
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Townsley, Leisa K., Patrick S. Broos, Michael F. Corcoran, Eric D. Feigelson, Marc Gagné, Thierry Montmerle, M. S. Oey, et al. “ AN INTRODUCTION TO THE CHANDRA CARINA COMPLEX PROJECT .” The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 194, no. 1 (April 28, 2011): 1. © 2011 The American Astronomical Society
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Abstract
The Great Nebula in Carina provides an exceptional view into the violent massive star formation and feedback that typifies giant H II regions and starburst galaxies. We have mapped the Carina star-forming complex in X-rays, using archival Chandra data and a mosaic of 20 new 60 ks pointings using the Chandra X-ray Observatory's Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer, as a testbed for understanding recent and ongoing star formation and to probe Carina's regions of bright diffuse X-ray emission. This study has yielded a catalog of properties of >14,000 X-ray point sources; >9800 of them have multiwavelength counterparts. Using Chandra's unsurpassed X-ray spatial resolution, we have separated these point sources from the extensive, spatially-complex diffuse emission that pervades the region; X-ray properties of this diffuse emission suggest that it traces feedback from Carina's massive stars. In this introductory paper, we motivate the survey design, describe the Chandra observations, and present some simple results, providing a foundation for the 15 papers that follow in this special issue and that present detailed catalogs, methods, and science results.
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MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
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https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/194/1/1
