XBootes: An X‐Ray Survey of the NDWFS Bootes Field. II. The X‐Ray Source Catalog

We present results from a Chandra survey of the nine square degree Bootesfield of the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey (NDWFS). This XBootes survey consistsof 126 separate contiguous ACIS-I observations each of approximately 5000seconds in duration. These unique Chandra observations allow us to search forlarge scale structure and to calculate X-ray source statistics o ver a wide,contiguous field of view with arcsecond angular resolution and uniformcoverage. Optical spectroscopic follow-up observations and the rich NDWFS dataset will allow us to identify and classify these X-ray selected sources. Using wavelet decomposition, we detect 4642 point sources with n $\ge$ 2counts. In order to keep our detections ~99% reliable, we limit our list tosources with n $\ge$ 4 counts. The full 0.5--7 keV band n $\ge$ 4 count list has 3293 point sources. Inaddition to the point sources, 43 extended sources have been detectedconsistent, with the depth of these observations and the number counts ofclusters. We present here the X-ray catalog for the XBootes survey, includingsource positions, X-ray fluxes, hardness ratios and their uncertainties. We calculate and present the differential number of sources per flux densit yinterval, $N(S)$, for the point sources.Comment: 1 Long table, 12 figures,28 page