QSO's to B less than 22 and the cosmic X ray background radiation: A fluctuations correlation approach

Details QSO's to B less than 22 and the cosmic X ray background radiation: A fluctuations correlation approach QSO's to B less than 22 and the cosmic X ray background radiation: A fluctuations correlation approach

Mar 1992

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In MPI für Extraterrestrische Physik, X Ray Emission from Active Galactic Nuclei and the Cosmic X Ray Background p 373-376 (SEE

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Background Radiation, Correlators, Cosmic X Rays, Quasars, X Ray Astronomy, X Ray Sources, Imagery, Imaging Techniques, Proportional Counters, Radiant Flux Density, Variations

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The contribution of faint Quasi Stellar Objects (QSO's) and other discrete sources to the cosmic X-Ray Background (XRB) is estimated using an optically selected QSO sample in SA 68.2 in conjunction with archived x-ray images from the Einstein Image Proportional Counter (IPC). A new generalization of the 'x-ray image stacking' technique is employed; this new approach tests for a positional 'correlation' between positive x-ray fluctuations in the IPC images, and the locations of the optically selected QSO's. Correlation with thirty SA 68.2 QSO's permits a highly sensitive measurement of the ensemble mean x-ray flux for QSO's with 19 less than BJ less than 22. Although the IPC images are of modest depth, a limiting sensitivity 1.2 times 10 to the minus 14th power erg/sec/sq cm (0.3 to 3.5 keV) is effectively archieved comparable to that of the Rosat medium deep surveys.

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