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COSMOS X-ray Group Member Catalog

Metadata Updated: January 30, 2026

COSMOS is an astronomical survey designed to probe the formation and evolution of galaxies as a function of cosmic time (redshift) and large scale structural environment. The survey covers a 2 square degree equatorial field with imaging by most of the major space-based telescopes (Hubble, Spitzer, GALEX, XMM, Chandra) and a number of large ground based telescopes (Subaru, VLA, ESO-VLT, UKIRT, NOAO, CFHT, and others). Over 2 million galaxies are detected, spanning 75% of the age of the universe.The reference for this catalog is George et al. (2011). This is a group membership catalog drawn from the COSMOS ACS galaxy catalog, similar to the one presented in Leauthaud et al. (2007). The main difference between this catalog and the Leauthaud et al 2007 one is that the raw ACS images have now been corrected for the effects of charge transfer inefficiency (CTI, see Massey et al. 2010 for further details). Since the CTI correction scheme slightly changes the noise properties of the raw images, the detections have also changed. For this reason, the GAL_ID field in this catalog can not be used to match to objects in the 2007 catalog. The pixel scale for this catalog is 0.03". To reference this ACS catalog please reference Leauthaud 2007 with updates presented in Leauthaud et al (in prep). This catalog is truncated at F814W (MAG_AUTO) < 24.2 due to the K-band completeness limit for stellar masses and because photoz uncertainties rise near this limit. Objects within ACS masks have also been removed (these are the same masks as in Leauthaud et al. 2007) and a variety of bad detections have been removed ("clean"=1 and "mu_class"=1) as well as galaxies without stellar masses.

Access & Use Information

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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Dates

Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
Metadata Updated Date January 30, 2026

Metadata Source

Harvested from NASA Data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
Metadata Updated Date January 30, 2026
Publisher NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive
Maintainer
Identifier ivo://irsa.ipac/cosmos/catalog/cosmos-xgal
Data Last Modified 2026-01-27
Category Astrophysics
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 026:00
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Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
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Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
Homepage URL https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/data/COSMOS/gator_docs/cosmos_xgal_colDescriptions.html
Program Code 026:000
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 3bf7cbe49821d5370c8653c06980afc2bf37fed746da32fe081b31266dd7c374
Source Schema Version 1.1

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