ART-XC Galactic bulge survey point sources cat.

The survey consisted of nearly 18 days of consecutive scanning observations of the sky region |l|<6deg, |b|<2.5deg with the median sensitivity of 4x10^-13^ erg/s/cm^2^ in the 4-12keV energy band, which allows the detection of sources down to a luminosity of 3x10^33^erg/s near the Galactic Center.

Using a maximum likelihood based algorithm, 172 sources were detected. Of these, 153 are registered on the average 4-12keV map and 18 sources are either extremely hard (detected only at energies above 7keV) or highly variable (detected only in individual scans shorter than a day). For 121 sources, there are plausible counterparts in other X-ray source catalogs, including 43 with known classification.