The BeppoSAX view of the hard X-ray background
Abstract
First results on a medium-deep X-ray survey in the "new" 5-10 keV band carried out with the MECS detectors onboard BeppoSAX are presented. The High Energy Llarge Area Survey (HELLAS) is aimed to directly explore a band where the energy density of the X-ray background is more than twice than that in the soft (0.5-2.0 keV) band. The optical identification follow-up of the first ten HELLAS hard X-ray sources indicate that Active Galactic Nuclei are the dominant population at 5-10 keV fluxes of the order of 10e-13 cgs. We discuss the implications of these findings for the AGN synthesis models for the XRB.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9902060,
title = {The BeppoSAX view of the hard X-ray background},
author = {A. Comastri and F. Fiore and P. Giommi and F. La Franca and M. Elvis and G. Matt and S. Molendi and G. C. Perola},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9902060},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
6 pages, 4 figures, uses psfig.sty. Accepted for publication in Advances in Space Research, Proceedings of the 32nd Scientific Assembly of COSPAR