INTEGRAL IBIS AGN Catalog Update

Seven high-energy emitters have also been included since they are considered to be good AGN candidates. Spectral analysis has been already performed on 55 objects and the results from the most recent and/or best statistical measurements have been collected. For the remaining 52 sources, the authors report the spectral analysis for the first time in this work.

They have been able to obtain full X-ray coverage of the sample making use of data from Swift/XRT, XMM-Newton and NuSTAR. In addition to the spectral characterization of the entire sample, this analysis has enabled the authors to identify peculiar sources and by comparing different data sets, highlight flux variability in the 2-10 keV and 20-40 keV bands. In the reference paper, the authors present the X-ray and optical follow-up work on 107 new AGN recently detected by INTEGRAL.

Fortunately, they have been able to obtain full X-ray coverage of the entire sample making use of data from the Swift/XRT, Newton-XMM, and NuSTAR archives or through Swift/XRT follow-up observations that they triggered. The HEASARC notes that this table of AGN newly detected by INTEGRAL and not included in the original INTEGRAL IBIS AGN Catalog (Malizia et al. 2012, MNRAS, 426, 1750, available at the HEASARC as the INTIBISAGN table) actually contains 108 AGN plus 8 candidate AGN, for a total of 116 objects, rather than the 107 plus 7 candidate AGN totalling 114 objects that are quoted in the abstract of the reference paper (and stated above).

The reason for this discrepancy is not known to the HEASARC. This table was created by the HEASARC in November 2017 based on <a href="cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/MNRAS/460/19">CDS Catalog J/MNRAS/460/19</a> files tablea1.dat and refs.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .