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SwiftAGN&ClusterSurvey(SACS)Soft-Band(0.5-2keV)ExtendedSourceCatalog

Metadata Updated: April 10, 2026

The Swift Active galactic nucleus (AGN) and Cluster Survey (SACS) uses 125 deg<sup>2</sup> of Swift X-ray Telescope (XRT) serendipitous fields with variable depths surrounding gamma-ray bursts to provide a medium depth (4 x 10<sup>-15</sup> erg cm<sup>-2</sup> s<sup>-1</sup>) and medium area survey filling the gap between deep, narrow Chandra/XMM-Newton surveys and wide, shallow ROSAT surveys. In the reference paper, a catalog of 22,563 point sources and 442 extended sources, and the number counts of the AGN and galaxy cluster populations are presented. SACS provides excellent constraints on the AGN number counts at the bright end with negligible uncertainties due to cosmic variance, and these constraints are consistent with previous measurements. The authors use Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mid-infrared(MIR) colors to classify the sources. For AGNs, they can roughly separate the point sources into MIR-red and MIR-blue AGNs, finding roughly equal numbers of each type in the soft X-ray band (0.5-2.0 keV), but fewer MIR-blue sources in the hard X-ray band (2-8 keV). The cluster number counts, with 5% uncertainties from cosmic variance, are also consistent with previous surveys but span a much larger continuous flux range. Deep optical or IR followup observations of this cluster sample will significantly increase the number of higher redshift (z > 0.5) X-ray-selected clusters. This HEASARC table contains the list of 442 Swift XRT extended sources which were detected in the soft X-ray band image (0.5-2 keV) and contained in Table 4 of the reference paper. The authors defined the extended source catalog as those sources with S/N >= 4 and a minimum net photon count of 20 that are more than 3 sigma from the mean size of point sources for both their off-axis angle and S/N. The authors consider these extended sources to be candidate clusters of galaxies. This table was created by the HEASARC in July 2015 based on an electronic version of Table 4 of the reference paper, the list of Swift XRT extended sources detected in the soft X-ray (0.5-2 keV) band, which was obtained from the ApJS web site. 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
Maintainer
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Data Last Modified 2026-04-06
Category Astrophysics
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 026:00
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Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
Homepage URL ivo://nasa.heasarc/sacssescat
License https://www.usa.gov/government-works
Program Code 026:000
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 817f770c5cf183ae8524235813208c95bd93e1390399220c474de6dab28a4659
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