Spectral Statistics and Local Luminosity Function of a Hard X-ray Complete Sample of Brightest AGNs

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2006-03-25

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0603699v2

Astron.J.131:2843-2858,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

43 pages(one column), 10 figures(5 electronic only figures have been included in the preprint source (tar.gz file)), accepted

Scientific paper

10.1086/504155

We have measured the X-ray spectral properties of a complete flux-limited sample of bright AGNs from HEAO-1 all-sky catalogs to investigate their statistics and provide greater constraints on the bright-end of the hard X-ray luminosity function (HXLF) of AGNs and the AGN population synthesis model of the X-ray background. Spectral studies using data from ASCA, XMM-Newton and/or Beppo-SAX observations have been made for almost all AGNs in this sample. The spectral measurements enable us to construct the neutral absorbing column density (Log nH) distribution and separate HXLFs for absorbed (Log nH[cm-2]> 21.5) and unabsorbed AGNs in the local universe. Our results show evidence for a difference in the shapes of HXLFs of absorbed and unabsorbed AGNs in that absorbed AGN HXLF drops more rapidly at higher luminosities than that of unabsorbed AGNs, which is similar to that previously reported. In the Lx - nH plot, we found no AGN in the high-luminosity high-intrinsic absorption regime (Log Lx[erg/s]> 44.5, Log nH[cm-2]> 21.5) in our sample, where we expect about 5 AGNs if we assume that absorbed and unabsorbed having identical AGN HXLF shapes. We also find that the observed flux with ASCA or XMM-Newton is smaller than that with HEAO-1 by a factor of 0.29 on average, which is expected for re-observation of sources with a factor 2.5 variability amplitude scale.

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