The ASCA Medium Sensitivity Survey (the GIS Catalog Project): Source Counts and Evidence for Emerging Population of Hard Sources

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1999-08-12

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9908128v1

Astrophys.J.Suppl. 133 (2001) 1-52

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages, 3 figures (including 2 color figures). Accepted for publication in ApJL

Scientific paper

10.1086/319189

We present first results from the ASCA Medium Sensitivity Survey (AMSS; or the GIS catalog project). From the serendipitous fields amounting to 106 degE-2, we determined the Log N - Log S relations in the 0.7-7 keV and 2-10 keV bands with the best statistical accuracy obtained so far, over the flux range from 1 x 10E-11 to 5 x 10E-14 and 7 x 10E-14 erg sE-1 cmE-2, respectively. When the sources detected in the 0.7-7 keV band are divided into two subsamples with higher and lower spectral hardness, the former exhibits a significantly steeper slope than the latter at fluxes below ~10E-12 erg sE-1 cmE-2 (0.7-7 keV). The average spectrum of sources becomes continuously harder toward fainter fluxes, from a photon index of 2.1 in the 0.7-10 keV range at the flux of ~10E-11 to 1.6 at ~10E-13 erg sE-1 cmE-2 (0.7-7 keV). This is consistent with the comparison of source counts between the 2-10 keV and the 0.7-2 keV band, and solves the puzzle of their discrepancy reported previously. Our results demonstrate rapid emergence of hard X-ray sources with a decreasing flux from \~10E-12 to ~10E-13 erg sE-1 cmE-2 (2-10 keV).

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