Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-06-16
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
15 pages, 17 figures, 4 tables. Accepted for publication on MNRAS
Scientific paper
In this paper we discuss the broad-band X-ray characteristics of a complete sample of 36 type 1 AGN, detected by INTEGRAL in the 20-40 keV band above the 5.5sigma level. We present, for all the objects in the sample, the broad-band (1-110 keV) spectral analysis obtained by using INTEGRAL/Swift-BAT observations together with XMM-Newton, Chandra, ASCA and Swift/XRT data. We also present the general average properties of the sample, i.e. the distribution of photon indices, high energy cut-offs, reflection fractions and absorption properties, together with an in-depth analysis of their parameter space. We find that the average Seyfert 1 power law has an index of 1.7 with a dispersion of 0.2. The mean cut-off energy is at around 100 keV, with most objects displaying Ec in the range 50-150 keV; the average amount of Compton reflection is 1.5 with a typical dispersion of 0.7. We do not find any convincing correlation between the various parameters, an indication that our analysis is not strongly dependent by the interplay between them. Finally, we investigate how the results presented in this work fit into current frameworks for AGN spectral modeling and Cosmic Diffuse X-ray Background synthesis models.
Bassani Loredana
Bird Andrew J.
Dean Anthony J.
Landi Raffaella
Malizia Angela
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