The Chandra Deep Field-North Survey

Below are refereed papers, conference proceedings, press releases, and data products. The more recent papers are listed first (in each category) and generally supersede the older ones.

Non-Numbered Refereed Papers

• The 2 Ms Chandra Deep Field-North Survey and the 250 ks Extended Chandra Deep Field-South Survey: Improved Point-Source Catalogs
• Additional data products - Event files, images, exposure/background/sensitivity maps, etc. (tar file; machine readable)

Y.Q. Xue, B. Luo, W.N. Brandt, D.M. Alexander, F.E. Bauer, B.D. Lehmer, G. Yang, 2016, ApJS, 224, 15

• The X-ray Spectral Properties of SCUBA Galaxies
• Data points used to make Figure 8 (ASCII; machine readable)

D.M. Alexander, F.E. Bauer, S.C. Chapman, I. Smail, A.W. Blain, W.N. Brandt, R.J. Ivison, 2005, ApJ, 632, 736

• Deep Extragalactic X-ray Surveys

W.N. Brandt, G. Hasinger, 2005, ARA&A, 43, 827

• Rapid Growth of Black Holes in Massive Star-Forming Galaxies

D.M. Alexander, I. Smail, F.E. Bauer, S.C. Chapman, A.W. Blain, W.N. Brandt, R.J. Ivison, 2005, Nature, 434, 738

• The Fall of AGN and the Rise of Star-Forming Galaxies: A Close Look at the Chandra Deep Field X-ray Number Counts
• Data files for number counts (ASCII; machine readable)
• Source classifications from Section 4.1.1 (ASCII; machine readable)

F.E. Bauer, D.M. Alexander, W.N. Brandt, D.P. Schneider, E. Treister, A.E. Hornschemeier, G.P. Garmire, 2004, AJ, 128, 2048

Numbered Refereed Papers

• The Chandra Deep Field-North Survey. XVII. Evolution of Magnetic Activity in Old Late-Type Stars

E.D. Feigelson, A.E. Hornschemeier, G. Micela, F.E. Bauer, D.M. Alexander, W.N. Brandt, F. Favata, S. Sciortino, G.P. Garmire, 2004, ApJ, 611, 1107

• The Chandra Deep Field-North Survey. XVI. The X-ray Properties of Moderate-Luminosity Active Galaxies at z > 4

C. Vignali, F.E. Bauer, D.M. Alexander, W.N. Brandt, A.E. Hornschemeier, D.P. Schneider, G.P. Garmire, 2002, ApJ, 580, L105

• The Chandra Deep Field-North Survey. XV. Optically Bright, X-ray Faint Sources

A.E. Hornschemeier, F.E. Bauer, D.M. Alexander, W.N. Brandt, W.L.W. Sargent, M.W. Bautz, C. Conselice, G.P. Garmire, D.P. Schneider, G. Wilson, 2003, AJ, 126, 575-595

• The Chandra Deep Field-North Survey. XIV. X-ray Detected Obscured AGNs and Starburst Galaxies in the Bright Submm Source Population

D.M. Alexander, F.E. Bauer, W.N. Brandt, A.E. Hornschemeier, C. Vignali, G.P. Garmire, D.P. Schneider, G. Chartas, S.C. Gallagher, 2003, AJ, 125, 383

• The Chandra Deep Field-North Survey. XIII. 2 Ms Point-Source Catalogs
• Additional data products - Tables, JPEG images, raw FITS images, adaptively smoothed FITS images, FITS exposure maps (tar file; machine readable)

D.M. Alexander, F.E. Bauer, W.N. Brandt, D.P. Schneider, A.E. Hornschemeier, C. Vignali, A.J. Barger, P.S. Broos, L.L. Cowie, G.P. Garmire, L.K. Townsley, M.W. Bautz, G. Chartas, W.L.W. Sargent, 2003, AJ, 126, 539-574

• The Chandra Deep Field-North Survey. XII. The Link Between Faint X-ray and Radio Source Populations

F.E. Bauer, D.M. Alexander, W.N. Brandt, A.E. Hornschemeier, C. Vignali, G.P. Garmire, D.P. Schneider, 2002, AJ, 124, 2351

• The Chandra Deep Field-North Survey. XI. X-ray Emission from Luminous Infrared Starburst Galaxies

D.M. Alexander, H. Aussel, F.E. Bauer, W.N. Brandt, A.E. Hornschemeier, C. Vignali, G.P. Garmire, D.P. Schneider, 2002, ApJL, 568, L85

• The Chandra Deep Field-North Survey. X. X-ray Emission from Very Red Objects (POSTSCRIPT)

D.M. Alexander, C. Vignali, F.E. Bauer, W.N. Brandt, A.E. Hornschemeier, G.P. Garmire, D.P. Schneider, 2002, AJ, 123, 1149

• The Chandra Deep Field-North Survey. IX. Extended X-ray Sources (POSTSCRIPT)
• List of photometric redshifts derived in Section 3.3
• Poster presentation at `Two Years of Science with Chandra' (POSTSCRIPT)

F.E. Bauer, D.M. Alexander, W.N. Brandt, A.E. Hornschemeier, T. Miyaji, G.P. Garmire, D.P. Schneider, M.W. Bautz, G. Chartas, R.E. Griffiths, W.L.W. Sargent, 2002, AJ, 123, 1163

• The Chandra Deep Field-North Survey. VIII. X-ray Constraints on Spiral Galaxies from 0.4 < z < 1.5

A.E. Hornschemeier, W.N. Brandt, D.M. Alexander, F.E. Bauer, G.P. Garmire, D.P. Schneider, M.W. Bautz, G. Chartas, 2002, ApJ, 568, 82

• The Chandra Deep Field-North Survey. VII. X-ray Emission from Lyman Break Galaxies
• Pretty overhead 1 (PDF)
• Pretty overhead 2 (PDF)

W.N. Brandt, A.E. Hornschemeier, D.P. Schneider, D.M. Alexander, F.E. Bauer, G.P. Garmire, C. Vignali, 2001, ApJ, 558, L5

• The Chandra Deep Field-North Survey. VI. The Nature of the Optically Faint X-ray Source Population
• Poster presentation at `Two Years of Science with Chandra' (POSTSCRIPT)

D.M. Alexander, W.N. Brandt, A.E. Hornschemeier, G.P. Garmire, D.P. Schneider, F.E. Bauer, R.E. Griffiths, 2001, AJ, 122, 2156

• The Chandra Deep Field-North Survey. V. 1 Ms Source Catalogs (POSTSCRIPT; full-resolution figures)
• Table 3 (POSTSCRIPT)
• Table 3 (ASCII; machine readable)
• Table 6 (POSTSCRIPT)
• Table 6 (ASCII; machine readable)
• Figure 3 README file - important! (ASCII)
• Figure 3a full-band image (FITS)
• Figure 3b soft-band image (FITS)
• Figure 3c hard-band image (FITS)
• Figure 3d ultrahard-band image (FITS)
• Figure 13 CDF-N number counts (ASCII; machine readable)
• 1 Ms Chandra sources in the HDF-N overlaid on the Williams et al. (1996) image (PDF)
• ``True-color'' Chandra image of the whole CDF-N (Version 1; small; JPEG)
• ``True-color'' Chandra image of the whole CDF-N (Version 2; large; JPEG)

W.N. Brandt, D.M. Alexander, A.E. Hornschemeier, G.P. Garmire, D.P. Schneider, A.J. Barger, F.E. Bauer, P.S. Broos, L.L. Cowie, L.K. Townsley, D.N. Burrows, G. Chartas, E.D. Feigelson, R.E. Griffiths, J.A. Nousek, W.L.W. Sargent, 2001, AJ, 122, 2810

• The Chandra Deep Survey of the Hubble Deep Field-North Area. IV. An Ultradeep Image of the HDF-N (POSTSCRIPT)
• Figure 2 (POSTSCRIPT)

W.N. Brandt, A.E. Hornschemeier, D.M. Alexander, G.P. Garmire, D.P. Schneider, P.S. Broos, L.K. Townsley, M.W. Bautz, E.D. Feigelson, R.E. Griffiths, 2001, AJ, 122, 1

• The Chandra Deep Survey of the Hubble Deep Field-North Area. III. log N - log S for the Chandra Observations

G.P. Garmire, W.N. Brandt, A.E. Hornschemeier, A.B. Garmire, P.S. Broos, L.K. Townsley, T. Miyaji, M.W. Bautz, D.N. Burrows, G. Chartas, E.D. Feigelson, R.E. Griffiths, D. Lumb, J.A. Nousek, 2002, ApJ, submitted

• The Chandra Deep Survey of the Hubble Deep Field-North Area. II. Results from the Caltech Faint Field Galaxy Redshift Survey Area (POSTSCRIPT)
• Figure 1a (POSTSCRIPT)
• Figure 6a (POSTSCRIPT)
• Figure 6b (POSTSCRIPT)
• Figure 16 (POSTSCRIPT)

A.E. Hornschemeier, W.N. Brandt, G.P. Garmire, D.P. Schneider, A.J. Barger, P.S. Broos, L.L. Cowie, L.K. Townsley, M.W. Bautz, D.N. Burrows, G. Chartas, E.D. Feigelson, R.E. Griffiths, D. Lumb, J.A. Nousek, L.W. Ramsey and W.L.W. Sargent, 2001, ApJ, 554, 742

• X-ray Sources in the Hubble Deep Field Detected by Chandra (POSTSCRIPT)
• Figure 1 (PDF)
• Figure 2 (PDF)
• Bonus Figure: Lack of X-ray / submillimeter matches (PDF)

A.E. Hornschemeier, W.N. Brandt, G.P. Garmire, D.P. Schneider, P.S. Broos, L.K. Townsley, M.W. Bautz, D.N. Burrows, G. Chartas, E.D. Feigelson, R. Griffiths, D. Lumb, J.A. Nousek and W.L.W. Sargent, 2000, ApJ, 541, 49

Hawaii Refereed Papers

• Optical and Infrared Properties of the 2 Ms Chandra Deep Field-North X-ray Sources

A.J. Barger, L.L. Cowie, P. Capak, D.M. Alexander, F.E. Bauer, E. Fernandez, W.N. Brandt, G.P. Garmire, A.E. Hornschemeier, 2003, AJ, 126, 632-665

• Very High Redshift X-ray Selected Active Galactic Nuclei in the Chandra Deep Field-North

A.J. Barger, L.L. Cowie, P. Capak, D.M. Alexander, F.E. Bauer, W.N. Brandt, G.P. Garmire, A.E. Hornschemeier, 2003, ApJ, 584, L61

• The Redshift Evolution of the 2-8 keV X-ray Luminosity Function

L.L. Cowie, A.J. Barger, M.W. Bautz, W.N. Brandt, G.P. Garmire, 2003, ApJ, 584, L57

• X-ray, Optical, and Infrared Imaging and Spectral Properties of the 1 Ms Chandra Deep Field-North Sources

A.J. Barger, L.L. Cowie, W.N. Brandt, P. Capak, G.P. Garmire, A.E. Hornschemeier, A.T. Steffen, E.H. Wehner, 2002, AJ, 124, 1839

• 2-8 keV X-ray Number Counts Determined from Chandra Blank Field Observations

L.L. Cowie, G.P. Garmire, M.W. Bautz, A.J. Barger, W.N. Brandt, A.E. Hornschemeier, 2002, ApJ, 566, L5

• The Submillimeter Properties of the 1 Ms Chandra Deep Field-North X-ray Sample

A.J. Barger, L.L. Cowie, A.T. Steffen, A.E. Hornschemeier, W.N. Brandt, G.P. Garmire, 2001, ApJ, 560, L23

• Supermassive Black Hole Accretion History Inferred from a Large Sample of Chandra Hard X-ray Sources

A.J. Barger, L.L. Cowie, M.W. Bautz, W.N. Brandt, G.P. Garmire, A.E. Hornschemeier, R.J. Ivison, F.N. Owen, 2001, AJ, 122, 2177

Conference Proceedings

• X-ray Survey Results on Active Galaxy Physics and Evolution

W.N. Brandt, D.M. Alexander, F.E. Bauer, C. Vignali, 2005, in Physics of Active Galactic Nuclei at All Scales, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, p. 185-209

• Fact: Many SCUBA Galaxies Harbor AGNs

D.M. Alexander, F.E. Bauer, S.C. Chapman, I. Smail, A.W. Blain, W.N. Brandt, R.J. Ivison, 2005, in Multiwavelength Mapping of Galaxy Formation and Evolution, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, p. 58-67

• X-ray Spectroscopy and Variability of AGN Detected in the 2 Ms Chandra Deep Field-North Survey

F.E. Bauer, C. Vignali, D.M. Alexander, W.N. Brandt, G.P. Garmire, A.E. Hornschemeier, P.S. Broos, L.K. Townsley, D.P. Schneider, 2004, in New X-ray Results from Clusters of Galaxies and Black Holes, Adv. Space Res., 34, 2555

• The 2 Ms Chandra Deep Field-North: Moderate-Luminosity AGNs and Dusty Starburst Galaxies

D.M. Alexander, F.E. Bauer, W.N. Brandt, A.E. Hornschemeier, 2003, in Multiwavelength Cosmology, Kluwer, Dordrecht, p. 291

• The Weak Outnumbering the Mighty: Normal Galaxies in Deep Chandra Surveys

A.E. Hornschemeier, F.E. Bauer, D.M. Alexander, W.N. Brandt, W.L.W. Sargent, C. Vignali, G.P. Garmire, D.P. Schneider, 2003, in X-ray Surveys in the Light of New Observatories, Astron. Nachrichten, 324, 12-15

• The AGN Source Population in the Chandra Deep Field-North Survey: Constraints from X-ray Spectroscopy and Variability

F.E. Bauer, C. Vignali, D.M. Alexander, W.N. Brandt, G.P. Garmire, A.E. Hornschemeier, P.S. Broos, L.K. Townsley, D.P. Schneider, 2003, in X-ray Surveys in the Light of New Observatories, Astron. Nachrichten, 325, 175

• X-rays from the High-Redshift Universe: The Chandra View

C. Vignali, W.N. Brandt, D.P. Schneider, G.P. Garmire, S. Kaspi, F.E. Bauer, D.M. Alexander, 2003, in X-ray Surveys in the Light of New Observatories, Astron. Nachrichten, 324, 163

• On the Nature of Extremely Red Objects: The 2 Ms Chandra Deep Field-North Survey Results

C. Vignali, D.M. Alexander, F.E. Bauer, W.N. Brandt, A.E. Hornschemeier, G.P. Garmire, D.P. Schneider, 2002, in Inflows, Outflows, and Reprocessing Around Black Holes, in limbo

• Resolving the Source Populations that Contribute to the X-ray Background: The 2 Ms Chandra Deep Field-North Survey
• HDF-N soft-band movie (Animated GIF; large)

D.M. Alexander, F.E. Bauer, W.N. Brandt, G.P. Garmire, A.E. Hornschemeier, D.P. Schneider, C. Vignali, 2002, in X-ray Surveys in the Light of New Observatories, Astron. Nachrichten, 324, 8-11

• The Chandra Deep Field-North Survey and the Cosmic X-ray Background
• Figure 5 (PDF)

W.N. Brandt, D.M. Alexander, F.E. Bauer, A.E. Hornschemeier, 2002, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (Series A: Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences), 360, 2057

• Exotic Sources Detected in the 1 Ms Chandra Deep Field-North Survey

D.M. Alexander, F.E. Bauer, W.N. Brandt, A.E. Hornschemeier, C. Vignali, G.P. Garmire, D.P. Schneider, 2002, in New Visions of the X-ray Universe in the XMM-Newton and Chandra Era, in limbo

Press Releases and Overheads

• April 2005 press release
• June 2003 press release
• March 2001 press release
• May 2000 press release

• 196th AAS meeting overhead: Details on HDF-N Chandra sources - 1 (PDF)
• 196th AAS meeting overhead: Details on HDF-N Chandra sources - 2 (PDF)

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