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M 51 Chandra X-Ray Discrete Source Catalog
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This table contains the results of two Chandra observations (separated by 1 year) of the population of X-ray sources in the spiral galaxy M 51 (NGC 5194 and NGC 5195).
Description
One hundred and thirteen X-ray sources have been detected in an 8.4' x 8.4'(20.4 x 20.4kpc) region, and 84 and 12 of them project within the disks of NGC 5194 and NGC 5195, respectively. Nine and 28 sources have luminosities exceeding 1 x 10<sup>39</sup> erg/s (ultraluminous X-ray sources or ULXs) and 1 x 10<sup>38</sup> erg/s in the 0.5 - 8 keV band, respectively, assuming that they are associated with M 51.
The number of ULXs is much higher than found in most normal spiral and elliptical galaxies. Most of the X-ray sources and all seven of the ULXs in NGC 5194 are located in, or close to, a spiral arm, suggesting a connection with recent star formation. The Chandra observations of M 51 were performed on 2000 June 20 and 2001 June 23 with the ACIS instrument.
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The background was stable in both observations, and effective exposure times of 14.9 and 26.8ks were obtained for the observations in 2000 and 2001, respectively. This table was created by the HEASARC in March 2007 based on <a href="cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/ApJ/601/735">CDS catalog J/ApJ/601/735</a> files table2.dat, table3.dat and table4.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
Links
Get the data
- Resource heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/m51cxo.html ↗
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- Resource heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/xamin/vo/cone?showoffsets=&table=m51cxo ↗
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Where it is published
- NASA Data Portal dataset page data.nasa.gov/dataset/m-51-chandra-x-ray-discrete-source-catalog ↗
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Catalogue records · 1
- CKAN API data.nasa.gov/api/3/action/package_show?id=fc6f31c0-81fa-495f-a4b4-7cd8e3026… ↗
metadata API · from data nasa gov
Topics
- Inferred from text
- Tabular 65%
Provenance · 1 source records, 7 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Data Portal | fc6f31c0-81fa-495f-a4b4-7cd8e3026227 | 13 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| concepts[modality].local:modality:tabular | enrichment · data nasa gov | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (65%) |
| created_date | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | /notes |
| license_text | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | /title |
| updated_date | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 |