• Pavlinsky, M.
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• Sazonov, S.
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• Burenin, R.
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• Filippova, E.
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• Krivonos, R.
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• Arefiev, V.
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• Buntov, M.
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• Chen, C. -T.
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• Ehlert, S.
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• Lapshov, I.
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• Levin, V.
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• Lutovinov, A.
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• Lyapin, A.
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• Mereminskiy, I.
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• Molkov, S.
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• Ramsey, B. D.
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• Semena, A.
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• Semena, N.
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• Shtykovsky, A.
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• Sunyaev, R.
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• Tkachenko, A.
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• Swartz, D. A.
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• Vikhlinin, A.

Abstract

We present a first catalog of sources detected by the Mikhail Pavlinsky ART-XC telescope on board the SRG observatory in the 4-12 keV energy band during its ongoing all-sky survey. The catalog comprises 867 sources detected on the combined map of the first two 6-month scans of the sky (December 2019-December 2020), ART-XC sky surveys 1 and 2, or ARTSS12. The achieved sensitivity to point sources varies between ~4 x 10^-12 erg s^-1 cm^-2 near the ecliptic plane and ~8 x 10^-13 erg s^-1 cm^-2 (4-12keV) near the ecliptic poles, and the typical localization accuracy is ~15". Of the 750 sources of known or suspected origin in the catalog, 56% are extragalactic (mostly active galactic nuclei, AGN; and clusters of galaxies) and the rest are Galactic (mostly cataclysmic variables, CVs; and low- and high-mass X-ray binaries). For 114 sources, ART-XC has detected X-rays for the first time. Although the majority of these (~80) are expected to be spurious (given the adopted detection threshold), there can be a significant number of newly discovered astrophysical objects. We have started a program of optical follow-up observations of the new and previously unidentified X-ray sources, which has already led to the identification of several AGN and CVs. With the SRG all-sky survey planned to continue for a total of four years, we can expect the ART-XC survey in the 4-12 keV band to significantly surpass previous surveys that were carried out in similar (medium X-ray) energy bands in terms of the combination of angular resolution, sensitivity, and sky coverage.

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