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Dec 2007
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007aas...211.4417l&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #211, #44.17; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 39, p.795
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The XMM Slew Survey is projected to cover 80% of the sky in the soft (0.5--2 keV) and hard (2--10 keV) bands. The survey has a flux limit of 4 × 10-12 erg s-1 cm-2 in the hard band. Like all hard-band surveys, it has the ability to detect even heavily absorbed AGN, and the large area coverage makes it possible to detect rare and/or luminous AGN. Thus the XMM Slew Survey offers a rare opportunity to obtain an accurate "census" of the z\ 0.1-0.2 AGN population which has not been well probed by previous, less-sensitive hard-band all sky surveys or deep "pencil beam" surveys. Over the past year, we have used the 4m Mayall and Blanco telescopes to obtain optical spectra of all the optical sources within the error circle of the un-identified X-ray sources in the 1st release of the XMM Sleww Survey. Approximately 2/3 of the sources have been robustly identified as AGN with an average redshift of 0.15. The precise classification of the remaining sources is unknown as follow-up observations with Swift XRT revealed that some sources were transient and most likely stellar in nature. In other cases, the more accurate position provided by Swift made it clear that none of the observed sources was the counterpart, implying that the counterpart has an r-band magnitude of greater than 20 which is unexpected for a source with such a large X-ray flux. The overwhelming majority of the AGN exhibit broad optical emission lines. This is very surprising because the X-ray properties suggested that many of these sources were heavily absorbed. Here we present our preliminary results and motivate the need for dedicated X-ray observations ( 5 ks) of this sample to help unravel the apparent discrepancy between the optical and X-ray properties of these sources.
Buckingham S.
Lewis Karen T.
Mushotzky Richard F.
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