The BeppoSAX High Energy Large Area Survey HELLAS, III: testing synthesis models for the X-ray background

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2001-05-30

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0105525v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 327 (2001) 781

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

to appear in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04737.x

The BeppoSAX High Energy Large Area Survey (HELLAS) has surveyed several tens of square degrees of the sky in the 5--10 keV band down to a flux of about 5 10^-14 erg cm-2 s-1. The extrapolation of the HELLAS logN--logS towards fainter fluxes with an euclidean slope is consistent with the first XMM measurements, in the same energy band, which are a factor 20 more sensitive. The source counts in the hardest band so far surveyed by X-ray satellites are used to constrain XRB models. It is shown that in order to reproduce the 5--10 keV counts over the range of fluxes covered by BeppoSAX and XMM a large fraction of highly absorbed (logN_H = 23--24 cm-2), luminous (L_X > 10^44 erg s-1) AGN is needed. A sizeable number of more heavily obscured, Compton thick, objects cannot be ruled out but it is not required by the present data. The model predicts an absorption distribution consistent with that found from the hardness ratios analysis of the so far identified HELLAS sources. Interestingly enough, there is evidence of a decoupling between X-ray absorption and optical reddening indicators especially at high redshifts/luminosities where several broad line quasars show hardness ratios typical of absorbed power law models with logN_H=22--24 cm-2.

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