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Collinder 69 Cluster XMM-Newton X-Ray Point Source Catalog

Metadata Updated: September 19, 2025

This table contains some of the results from the first paper of a series devoted to the Lambda Orionis star-forming region, Orion's Head, from the X-ray perspective. The final aim of this research is to provide a comprehensive view of this complex region, which includes several distinct associations and dark clouds. The authors aim to uncover the population of the central, young star cluster Collinder 69, and in particular to find those diskless Class III pre-main sequence objects which have not been identified by previous surveys based on near- and mid-infrared searches, and to establish the X-ray luminosity function for the association. The authors have combined two exposures taken with the XMM-Newton satellite with an exhaustive data set of optical, near- and mid-infrared photometry to assess the membership of the X-ray sources based on different color-color and color-magnitude diagrams, as well as other properties, such as effective temperatures, masses and bolometric luminosities derived from spectral energy distribution fitting and comparison with theoretical isochrones. The presence of circumstellar disks is discussed using mid-infrared photometry from the Spitzer Space Telescope. This table contains the XMM-Newton X-ray point source catalog for all sources detected in the EPIC observations of the Collinder 69, East and West Fields (C69E and C69W), respectively, with maximum likelihood (ML) values > 15.0. A companion HEASARC Browse table COLL69OID contains optical and infrared data as well as membership information on counterparts to these X-ray sources. This table was created by the HEASARC in July 2011 based on the electronic versions of Tables 3 and 4 from the reference paper which were obtained from the CDS (their catalog J/A+A/526/A21 files table3.dat and table4.dat). This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
Metadata Updated Date September 19, 2025

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Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
Metadata Updated Date September 19, 2025
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