An Introduction to the Chandra Carina Complex Project
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Townsley, Leisa K[Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, 525 Davey Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA]
Broos, Patrick S[Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, 525 Davey Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA]
Corcoran, Michael F[CRESST and X-ray Astrophysics Laboratory NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA ; Universities Space Research Association, 10211 Wincopin Circle, Suite 500, Columbia, MD 21044, USA]
Feigelson, Eric D[Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, 525 Davey Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA]
Gagné, Marc[Department of Geology and Astronomy, West Chester University, West Chester, PA 19383, USA]
Oey, M. S.[Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan, 830 Dennison Building, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1042, USA]
Smith, Nathan[Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, 933 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA]
Garmire, Gordon P[Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, 525 Davey Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA]
Getman, Konstantin V[Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, 525 Davey Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA]
Povich, Matthew S[Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, 525 Davey Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA ; NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow.]
Remage Evans, Nancy[Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA]
Nazé, Yaël[GAPHE, Département AGO, Université de Liège, Allée du 6 Août 17, Bat. B5C, B4000-Liège, Belgium]
Parkin, E. R.[Institut d'Astrophysique et de Géophysique, Université de Liège, 17 Allée du 6 Août, B5c, B-4000 Sart Tilman, Belgium ; School of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK]
Wang, Junfeng[Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA]
Wolk, Scott J[Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA]
Chu, You-Hua[Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1002 West Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA]
Cohen, David H[Department of Physics and Astronomy, Swarthmore College, 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PA 19081, USA]
Gruendl, Robert A[Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1002 West Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA]
Hamaguchi, Kenji[CRESST and X-ray Astrophysics Laboratory NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA ; Department of Physics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA]
King, Robert R[Astrophysics Group, College of Engineering, Mathematics, and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QL, UK]
Mac Low, Mordecai*-Mark[Division of Physical Sciences, American Museum of Natural History, 79th St. at CPW, New York, NY 10024-5192, USA]
McCaughrean, Mark J[Astrophysics Group, College of Engineering, Mathematics, and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QL, UK ; European Space Agency, Research & Scientific Support Department, ESTEC, Postbus 299, 2200 AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands]
Moffat, Anthony F J[Département de Physique, Université de Montréal and Centre de Recherche en Astrophysique du Québec, C. P. 6128, Succ. C-V, Montréal, QC H3C 3J7, Canada]
Oskinova, L. M.[Institute for Physics and Astronomy, University of Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam, Germany]
Pittard, Julian M[School of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK]
Stassun, Keivan G[Department of Physics & Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, VU Station B 1807, Nashville, TN 37235, USA ; Department of Physics, Fisk University, 1000 17th Avenue N., Nashville, TN 37208, USA]
ud-Doula, Asif[Penn State Worthington Scranton, 120 Ridge View Drive, Dunmore, PA 18512, USA]
Walborn, Nolan R[Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA]
Waldron, Wayne L[Eureka Scientific, Inc., 2452 Delmer Street, Suite 100, Oakland, CA 94602-3017, USA]
Churchwell, Ed[Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 475 N. Charter Street, Madison, WI 53706, USA]
Nichols, J. S.[Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA]
Owocki, Stanley P[Bartol Research Institute, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA]
Schulz, N. S.[Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA]
[en] H II regions ; stars: massive ; stars: pre-main sequence ; X-rays: individual: Carina ; X-rays: ISM ; X-rays: stars
[en] The Great Nebula in Carina provides an exceptional view into the violent massive star formation and feedback that typifies giant H II regions and starburst galaxies. We have mapped the Carina star-forming complex in X-rays, using archival Chandra data and a mosaic of 20 new 60 ks pointings using the Chandra X-ray Observatory's Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer, as a testbed for understanding recent and ongoing star formation and to probe Carina's regions of bright diffuse X-ray emission. This study has yielded a catalog of properties of >14,000 X-ray point sources; >9800 of them have multiwavelength counterparts. Using Chandra's unsurpassed X-ray spatial resolution, we have separated these point sources from the extensive, spatially-complex diffuse emission that pervades the region; X-ray properties of this diffuse emission suggest that it traces feedback from Carina's massive stars. In this introductory paper, we motivate the survey design, describe the Chandra observations, and present some simple results, providing a foundation for the 15 papers that follow in this special issue and that present detailed catalogs, methods, and science results.
[Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, 525 Davey Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA]
