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The HELLAS2XMM 1dF Survey: a window on exotic hard X-ray selected sources

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Recent Chandra and XMM-Newton surveys have confirmed that the cosmic X-ray background is mostly due to accretion onto super-massive black holes, integrated over cosmic time. Here we review the results obtained from the photometric and spectroscopic follow-up observations of the 122 X-ray sources detected by the HELLAS2XMM 1dF Survey down to a 2-10 keV flux of ~10^{-14} erg cm^-2 s^-1. In particular, we focus on the multiwavelength properties of a few intriguing classes of X-ray sources: high X-ray-to-optical flux ratio sources, Type 2 quasars, and XBONGs.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0403100,
  title  = {The HELLAS2XMM 1dF Survey: a window on exotic hard X-ray selected sources},
  author = {C. Vignali},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0403100},
  year   = {2007}
}

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3 pages, to appear in the proceedings of the Tenth Marcel Grossman Meeting on General Relativity, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (July 20-26, 2003)