The Swift Deep Galactic Plane Survey (DGPS) Phase I Catalog

B. O’Connor, C. Kouveliotou, P. A. Evans, N. Gorgone, A. J. van Kooten, S. Gagnon, H. Yang, M. G. Baring, E. Bellm, P. Beniamini, J. Brink, D. A.H. Buckley, S. B. Cenko, O. D. Egbo, E. Göğüş, J. Granot, C. Hailey, J. Hare, F. Harrison, D. HartmannA. J. van der Horst, D. Huppenkothen, L. Kaper, O. Kargaltsev, J. A. Kennea, K. Mukai, P. O. Slane, D. Stern, E. Troja, Z. Wadiasingh, R. A.M.J. Wijers, P. Woudt, G. Younes

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Abstract

The Swift Deep Galactic Plane Survey (DGPS) is a Swift Key Project consisting of 380 tiled pointings covering ∼40 deg2 of the Galactic plane between longitude 10 < ∣l∣ < 30 deg and latitude ∣b∣ < 0.5 deg. Each pointing has a 5 ks exposure, yielding a total of 1.9 Ms spread across the entire survey footprint. Phase I observations were carried out between 2017 March and 2021 May. The survey is complete to depth L X > 1034 erg s−1 to the edge of the Galaxy. The main survey goal is to produce a rich sample of new X-ray sources and transients, while also covering a broad discovery space. Here, we introduce the survey strategy and present a catalog of sources detected during Phase I observations. In total, we identify 928 X-ray sources, of which 348 are unique to our X-ray catalog. We report on the characteristics of sources in our catalog and highlight sources newly classified and published by the DGPS team.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number49
JournalAstrophysical Journal, Supplement Series
Volume269
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 1 2023

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Space and Planetary Science

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