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Chandra Deep Field North 2-Megasecond Catalog

Metadata Updated: April 10, 2026

The Chandra Deep Field North (CDFN) 2-Megasecond Catalog contains the point sources found in the ~2 Megasecond (Ms) exposure of the Chandra Deep Field North, currently the deepest X-ray observation of the universe in the 0.5 -8.0 keV band. Five hundred and three (503) X-ray sources were detected over an ~448 square arcminute area in up to seven X-ray bands. Twenty (20) of these X-ray sources lie in the central ~5.3 square arcminute Hubble Deep Field North (13600 (+3800,-3000) sources/deg<sup>2</sup>). The on-axis sensitivity limits are ~2.5x10<sup>-17</sup> ergs/cm<sup>2</sup>/s (0.5 - 2.0 keV) and 1.4x10<sup>-16</sup> ergs/cm<sup>2</sup>/s (2 - 8 keV). Source positions are determined using matched-filter and centroiding techniques; the median positional uncertainty is ~0.3". The X-ray colors of the detected sources indicate a broad variety of source types, although absorbed AGN (including a small number of possible Compton-thick sources) are clearly the dominant type. The average backgrounds in the 0.5 - 2.0 keV and 2 - 8 keV bands are 0.056 and 0.135 counts Ms<sup>-1</sup> pixel<sup>-1</sup>, respectively. The background count distributions are very similar to Poisson distributions. This 2 Ms exposure is approximately photon limited in all seven X-ray bands for regions close to the aim point. This observation does not suffer from source confusion within ~6 arcminutes of the aim point. This table was created by the HEASARC in April 2004 based on CDS catalog table J/AJ/126/539/cdfn.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

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Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
Metadata Updated Date April 10, 2026

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Harvested from NASA Data.json

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Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
Metadata Updated Date April 10, 2026
Publisher High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center
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Data Last Modified 2026-04-06
Category Astrophysics
Public Access Level public
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