The Chandra COSMOS Survey (C-COSMOS) is a large, 1.8 Ms, Chandra program that has imaged the central 0.5 deg
2 of the COSMOS field (centered at RA, Dec of 10 hours , +02 degrees) with an effective exposure of ~ 160 ks, and an outer 0.4 deg
2 area with an effective exposure of ~ 80 ks. The limiting source detection depths are 1.9 x 10
-16 erg cm
-2 s
-1 in the soft (0.5 - 2 keV) band, 7.3 x 10
-16 erg cm
-2 s
-1 in the hard (2 - 10 keV) band, and 5.7 x 10
-16 erg cm
-2 s
-1 in the full (0.5 - 10 keV) band. In this paper, the authors describe the strategy, design, and execution of the C-COSMOS survey, and present the catalog of 1761 point sources detected at a probability of being spurious of < 2 x 10
-5 (1655 in the full, 1340 in the soft, and 1017 in the hard bands). By using a grid of 36 heavily (~ 50%) overlapping pointing positions with the ACIS-I imager, a remarkably uniform (+/-12%) exposure across the inner 0.5 deg
2 field was obtained, leading to a sharply defined lower flux limit. The widely different point-spread functions obtained in each exposure at each point in the field required a novel source detection method, because of the overlapping tiling strategy, which is described in a companion paper. This method produced reliable sources down to a 7-12 counts, as verified by the resulting log N-log S curve, with sub-arcsecond positions, enabling optical and infrared identifications of virtually all sources, as reported in a second companion paper. Supporting data products for this table (including images, event files, and exposure maps) are available at the
COSMOS Survey website and at
IRSA. At the IRSA website, it is also possible to search a database that includes "postage stamps" of the X-ray data for each source, along with the multi-wavelength optical and infrared data, including the I-band, K-band, and Spitzer 3.6-micron (Band 1) images used in the Part III paper (Civano et al. 2012) to identify the sources. See also the related table
CCOSMOSOID for the optical and infrared identifications of the surveyed X-ray point sources. This table was created by the HEASARC in November 2009 based on an electronic version of the C-COSMOS Catalog which was obtained from the Astrophysical Journal web site. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .