The BeppoSAX HELLAS survey: on the nature of faint hard X-ray selected sources

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2000-07-10

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0007118v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

9 pages, Invited talk to appear in the Proceedings of the Conference X-ray Astronomy '999: Stellar Endpoints, AGNs and the Dif

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.1434624

The BeppoSAX 4.5-10 keV High Energy Large Area Survey has covered about 80 square degrees of sky down to a flux of F(5-10keV)~5E-14 cgs. Optical spectroscopic identification of about half of the sources in the sample (62) shows that many (~50%) are highly obscured AGN, in line with the predictions of AGN synthesis models for the hard X-ray background (XRB, see e.g. Comastri et al. 1995). The X-ray data, complemented by optical, near-IR and radio follow-up, indicate that the majority of these AGN are ``intermediate'' objects, i.e. type 1.8-1.9 AGN,`red' quasars, and even a few broad line, blue continuum quasars, obscured in X-rays by columns of the order of logNH=22.5-23.5 cm-2, but showing a wide dispersion in optical extinction. The optical and near-IR photometry of the obscured objects are dominated by galaxy starlight, indicating that a sizeable fraction of the accretion power in the Universe may actually have been missed in optical color surveys. This also implies that multicolor photometry techniques may be efficiently used to assess the redshift of the hard X-ray selected sources.

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