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The Chandra Cosmos Survey. I. Overview And Point Source Catalog, M Elvis, F Civano, C Vignali, S Puccetti, F Fiore, N Cappelluti, Tl Aldcroft, A Fruscione, G Zamorani, A Comastri, M Brusa, R Gilli, T Miyaji, F Damiani, Am Koekemoer, A Finoguenov, H Brunner, Cm Urry, J Silverman, V Mainieri, G Hasinger, R Griffiths, M Carollo, H Hao, L Guzzo, A Blain, D Calzetti, C Carilli, P Capak, S Ettori, G Fabbiano, C Impey, S Lilly, B Mobasher, M Rich, M Salvato, Db Sanders, E Schinnerer, N Scoville, P Shopbell, Je Taylor, Y Taniguchi, M Volonteri

Astronomy Department Faculty Publication Series

The Chandra COSMOS Survey (C-COSMOS) is a large, 1.8 Ms, Chandra program that has imaged the central 0.5 deg2 of the COSMOS field (centered at 10 h , +02 o ) with an effective exposure of ~160 ks, and an outer 0.4 deg2 area with an effective exposure of ~80 ks. The limiting source detection depths are 1.9 × 10–16 erg cm–2 s–1 in the soft (0.5-2 keV) band, 7.3 × 10–16 erg cm–2 s–1 in the hard (2-10 keV) band, and 5.7 × 10–16 erg cm–2 s–1 in the full (0.5-10 keV) band. Here we describe the strategy, design, …