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Astron. Nachr./AN 32X (200X) X, XXX–XXX Chandra Multi-wavelength Plane (ChaMPlane) Survey: Design and Initial Results JONATHAN GRINDLAY 1 , PING ZHAO 1, JAE SUB HONG1, JOHNATHAN JENKINS1 , 2 DONG-WOO KIM1, ERIC SCHLEGEL1 , JEREMY DRAKE 1 , VINAY KASHYAP 1 , PETER 0 EDMONDS 1 , HALDAN COHN2 , PHYLLIS LUGGER2 AND ADRIENNE COOL3 0 2 1Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138 v 2Department of Astronomy, Indiana University, Swain Hall West, Bloomington, IN 47405 o 3Department of Physics and Astronomy, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 94132 N 5 2 Received date will be inserted by the editor; accepted date will be inserted by the editor 1 v 7 2 Abstract. The Chandra Multiwavength Plane (ChaMPlane) Survey of the galactic plane incorporates serendipitous sources ◦ 5 from selected Chandra pointings in or near the galactic plane (b12 ; ≥20 ksec; lack of bright diffuse or point sources) to 1 measure or constrain the luminosity function of low-luminosity accretion sources in the Galaxy. The primary goal is to detect 1 and identify accreting white dwarfs (cataclysmic variables, with space density still uncertain by a factor of 10-100), neutron 2 stars and black holes (quiescent low mass X-ray binaries) to constrain their space densities and thus origin and evolution. 0 Secondary objectives are to identify Be stars in high mass X-ray binaries and constrain their space densities, and to survey the / h H-R diagram for stellar coronal sources. A parallel optical imaging under