Star Formation In Nearby Clouds (SFiNCs): X-ray And Infrared Source
  Catalogs And Membership
  The Star Formation in Nearby Clouds (SFiNCs) project is aimed at providing
detailed study of the young stellar populations and star cluster formation in
nearby 22 star forming regions (SFRs) for comparison with our earlier MYStIX
survey of richer, more distant clusters. As a foundation for the SFiNCs science
studies, here, homogeneous data analyses of the Chandra X-ray and Spitzer
mid-infrared archival SFiNCs data are described, and the resulting catalogs of
over 15300 X-ray and over 1630000 mid-infrared point sources are presented. On
the basis of their X-ray/infrared properties and spatial distributions, nearly
8500 point sources have been identified as probable young stellar members of
the SFiNCs regions. Compared to the existing X-ray/mid-infrared publications,
the SFiNCs member list increases the census of YSO members by 6-200% for
individual SFRs and by 40% for the merged sample of all 22 SFiNCs SFRs.
