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Swift-INTEGRAL X-Ray (SIX) Survey Catalog
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The supermassive black holes at the center of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are surrounded by obscuring matter that can block nuclear radiation.
Description
Depending on the amount of blocked radiation, the flux from the AGN can be too faint to be detected by currently operating hard X-ray (above 15 keV) missions. At these energies, only ~1% of the intensity of the cosmic X-ray background (CXB) can be resolved into point-like sources that are AGNs.
In this work, the authors address the question of undetected sources contributing to the CXB with a very sensitive and new hard X-ray survey: the Swift-INTEGRAL X-ray (SIX) survey, which is obtained with the new approach of combining the Swift/BAT and INTEGRAL/IBIS X-ray observations. The authors merge the observations of both missions, which enhances the exposure time and reduces systematic uncertainties. As a result, they obtain a new survey over a wide sky area of 6200 deg<sup>2</sup> covering the region of the North Ecliptic Pole (NEP) and extending to the contiguous Coma region that is more sensitive than the surveys of Swift/BAT or INTEGRAL/IBIS alone.
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Their sample comprises 113 sources having S/N ratios of above 4.8 sigma: 86 AGNs (Seyfert-like and blazars), 5 galaxies, 2 clusters of galaxies, 3 Galactic sources, 3 previously detected unidentified X-ray sources, and 14 unidentified sources. The scientific outcome from the study of the sample has been properly addressed to study the evolution of AGNs at a redshift below 0.4. The authors do not find any evolution using the 1/V<sub>max</sub> method.
Their sample of faint sources is a suitable target for the new generation of hard X-ray telescopes with focusing techniques. This table was created by the HEASARC in August 2012 based on an electronic version of Table 2 from the reference paper which was obtained from the ApJS web site. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
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- Resource heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/sixsrvycat.html ↗
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- Resource heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/xamin/vo/cone?showoffsets=&table=sixsrvycat ↗
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Where it is published
- NASA Data Portal dataset page data.nasa.gov/dataset/swift-integral-x-ray-six-survey-catalog ↗
landing page · from data nasa gov
Catalogue records · 1
- CKAN API data.nasa.gov/api/3/action/package_show?id=143dfb9c-91ca-4d20-90cc-a7dd8e0a3… ↗
metadata API · from data nasa gov
Topics
- Inferred from text
- Tabular 65%
Provenance · 1 source records, 7 field assertions
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| NASA Data Portal | 143dfb9c-91ca-4d20-90cc-a7dd8e0a35c7 | 12 d ago | JSON v1 |
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| concepts[modality].local:modality:tabular | enrichment · data nasa gov | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (65%) |
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