SRG/ART-XC all-sky X-ray survey: Catalog of sources detected during the first five surveys

TL;DR

This paper presents an updated catalog of 1545 X-ray sources detected by the SRG/ART-XC telescope during its all-sky survey, with improved sensitivity and new source identifications, including many extragalactic and Galactic objects.

Contribution

The paper provides the first comprehensive catalog of sources from the ART-XC all-sky survey, including new detections and classifications, with enhanced sensitivity over previous surveys.

Findings

Catalog contains 1545 sources detected in 4-12 keV band.

Approximately 130 new X-ray sources not previously known.

Majority of sources are active galactic nuclei and cataclysmic variables.

Abstract

We present an updated catalog of sources detected by the Mikhail Pavlinsky ART-XC telescope aboard the Spektrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) observatory during its all-sky survey. It is based on the data of the first four and the partially completed fifth scans of the sky (ARTSS1-5). The catalog comprises 1545 sources detected in the 4-12 keV energy band. The achieved sensitivity ranges between $\sim 4\times 10^{-12}$ erg s$^{-1}$ cm$^{-2}$ near the ecliptic plane and $\sim 7\times 10^{-13}$ erg s$^{-1}$ cm$^{-2}$ near the ecliptic poles, which is a $\sim$30-50% improvement over the previous version of the catalog based on the first two all-sky scans (ARTSS12). There are $\sim 130$ objects, excluding the expected contribution of spurious detections, that were not known as X-ray sources before the SRG/ART-XC all-sky survey. We provide information, partly based on our ongoing follow-up optical spectroscopy program, on the identification and classification of the majority of the ARTSS1-5 sources (1463), of which 173 are tentative at the moment. The majority of the classified objects (964) are extragalactic, a small fraction (30) are located in the Local Group of galaxies, and 469 are Galactic. The dominant classes of objects in the catalog are active galactic nuclei (911) and cataclysmic variables (192).