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河外偶发雨燕巡天(ExSeSS)-- I. X射线计数的测量定义与测量

The Extragalactic Serendipitous Swift Survey (ExSeSS) -- I. Survey definition and measurements of the X-ray number counts

Jack N. Delaney, James Aird, Phil A. Evans, Cassandra Barlow-Hall, Julian P. Osborne, Michael G. Watson

摘要:

我们提出了河外偶发性雨燕调查(ExSeSS),提供了一个新的定义明确的样本,从使用雨燕X射线望远镜进行的观测。ExSeSS样本包括在中等(1-2 keV)、硬(2-10 keV)或总(0.3-10 keV)能带中检测到的79,342个源,覆盖天空2086.6 deg $^{2}$,通量范围为$f_\mathrm{0.3-10keV}\sim10^{-15}-10^{-10}$ erg s $^{-1}$ cm $^{-2}$。使用新的ExSeSS样品,我们提出了测量的微分数计数的X射线源作为2-10千电子伏通量的函数,跟踪人口的活动星系核(AGN)在以前未探索的制度。我们发现,考虑到视线吸收列密度的微分计数测量的影响,是至关重要的,以获得与以前的结果一致。在硬带,我们得到了很好的协议之间的ExSeSS测量和以前的,更高的能量数据从NuSTAR和斯威夫特/BAT时,考虑到不同的列密度的ExSeSS样品以及X射线光谱参数的每个样品,我们正在比较。我们还发现ExSeSS测量和活动星系核人口合成模型之间的差异,表明在这个通量范围内的活动星系核人口的属性的变化,这是不完全描述当前的模型在这些能量,暗示在一个更大的,适度模糊的人口在低红移($z\lesssim0.2$)的模型目前没有考虑。

英文摘要:

We present the Extragalactic Serendipitous Swift Survey (ExSeSS), providing a new well-defined sample constructed from the observations performed using the Swift X-ray Telescope. The ExSeSS sample consists of 79,342 sources detected in the medium (1-2 keV), hard (2-10 keV) or total (0.3-10 keV) energy bands, covering 2086.6 deg$^{2}$ of sky across a flux range of $f_\mathrm{0.3-10keV}\sim10^{-15}-10^{-10}$ erg s$^{-1}$ cm$^{-2}$. Using the new ExSeSS sample we present measurements of the differential number counts of X-ray sources as a function of 2-10 keV flux that trace the population of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in a previously unexplored regime. We find that taking the line-of-sight absorption column density into account has an effect on the differential number count measurements and is vital to obtain agreement with previous results. In the hard band, we obtain a good agreement between the ExSeSS measurements and previous, higher energy data from NuSTAR and Swift/BAT when taking into account the varying column density of the ExSeSS sample as well as the X-ray spectral parameters of each of the samples we are comparing to. We also find discrepancies between the ExSeSS measurements and AGN population synthesis models, indicating a change in the properties of the AGN population over this flux range that is not fully described by current models at these energies, hinting at a larger, moderately obscured population at low redshifts ($z\lesssim0.2$) that the models are not currently taking into account.

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