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Dec 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001aipc..599..858p&link_type=abstract

X-RAY ASTRONOMY: Stellar Endpoints,AGN, and the Diffuse X-ray Background. Edited by Nicholas E. White, Giuseppe Malaguti, and G

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X-Ray Sources, X-Ray Bursts, Astronomical Catalogs, Atlases, Sky Surveys, Databases, Retrieval Systems, Archives, Etc., Galactic Nuclei, Circumnuclear Matter, And Bulges, Background Radiations

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We present the preliminary results of the BeppoSAX GRATIS Survey, an ongoing survey in the 2-10 keV energy band based on short exposures of ``random'' parts of the sky. At present GRATIS covers about 20 deg2 of the high galactic latitude sky with a flux limiting sensitivity of 3-4 10-13 erg s-1 cm-2. GRATIS source counts are in good agreement with those of ASCA and BeppoSAX deeper surveys and provide an unbiased estimation of the bright end of the 2-10 keV LogN-LogS relationship. A BeppoSAX follow-up observation of one of the GRATIS X-Ray sources shows evidence of a strongly absorbed spectrum, indicating that it could be a heavily absorbed (type 2) AGN, as predicted by population synthesis models for the X-Ray Background. .

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