Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-11-20
2002, ApJ, 564, L5
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
7 Pages 2 Figures. Fig. 2 replaced due to a minor labeling error. This version is more updated than the journal artilcle and i
Scientific paper
10.1086/338794
We report the results of fluctuation analysis of the off-source field from the 1 Million second Chandra observation of the Hubble Deep Field-North (HDF-N). The distribution of the counts in cells has been compared with the expectations from the Log N - Log S model to constrain the behavior of the source number density down to a factor of several lower than the source-detection limit. Our results show that the number counts in the soft band (0.5-2 [keV]) continue to grow down to Sx = 7e-18 [erg s^{-1} cm^{-2}], possibly suggesting the emergence of a new population and agree well with a prediction of star forming galaxies by Ptak et al. (2001). For the hard band (2-10 keV), the fluctuation analysis can loosely constrain the source counts fainter than the detection limit and we found an upper limit of 10000 [srcs deg^{-2}] at Sx=2e-16 [erg s^{-1}cm^{-2}].
Griffiths Richard E.
Miyaji Takamitsu
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