Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1997-11-10
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
8 pages, 8 eps figures included in text, uses mn.sty. To appear in MNRAS. Also at http://www.ifca.unican.es/~barcons/preprints
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01407.x
An analysis of the spatial fluctuations in 15 deep ASCA SIS0 images has been conducted in order to probe the 2-10 keV X-ray source counts down to a flux limit 2E-14 erg/cm2/s. Special care has been taken in modelling the fluctuations in terms of the sensitivity maps of every one of the 16 regions (5.6 x 5.6 arcmin2 each) in which the SIS0 has been divided, by means of raytracing simulations with improved optical constants in the X-ray telescope. The very extended `side lobes' (extending up to a couple of degrees) exhibited by these sensitivity maps make our analysis sensitive to both faint on-axis sources and brighter off-axis ones, the former being dominant. The source counts in the range (2-12)E-14 erg/cm2/s are found to be close to a euclidean form which extrapolates well to previous results from higher fluxes and in reasonable agreement with some recent ASCA surveys. However, our results disagree with the deep survey counts by Georgantopoulos et al. (1997). The possibility that the source counts flatten to a subeuclidean form, as is observed at soft energies in ROSAT data, is only weakly constrained to happen at a flux <1.8E-12 erg/cm2/s (90 per cent confidence). Down to the sensitivity limit of our analysis, the integrated contribution of the sources whose imprint is seen in the fluctuations amounts to 35\pm 13 per cent of the extragalactic 2-10 keV X-ray background.
Barcons Xavier
Fabian Andrea C.
Gendreau Keith Charles
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