Schedule and Status

Current Schedule

September 2008	Start catalog production
October 2008	First public access to catalog database
March 2009	Chandra Source Catalog Release 1
	Includes information about sources detected in a subset of ACIS imaging observations released publicly prior to the end of 2008. Only point and compact sources, with observed spatial extents < ~30 arcsec, are included. Multiple observations of the same field are not co-added prior to performing source detection.
August 2010	Chandra Source Catalog Release 1.1
	Extends Release 1 to include public HRC-I imaging observations, and newly public ACIS observations, but otherwise retains the same limitations as Release 1.
TBD	Chandra Source Catalog Release 2
	Co-adds multiple observations of the same field that use the same instrument prior to source detection, to achieve fainter limiting sensitivities, as well as providing improvements in extended source handling

Chandra Newsletter articles on the status of the Chandra Source Catalog.