The XMM-Newton serendipitous survey IV. The AXIS X-ray source counts and angular clustering

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2007-03-16

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0703451v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

28 pages, 10 figures, A&A accepted

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20066271

AXIS (An XMM-Newton International Survey) is a survey of 36 high Galactic latitude XMM-Newton observations covering 4.8 deg2 and containing 1433 serendipitous X-ray sources detected with 5-sigma significance. We have studied the X-ray source counts in four energy bands soft (0.5-2 keV), hard (2-10 keV), XID (0.5-4.5 keV) and ultra-hard (4.5-7.5 keV). We have combined this survey with shallower and deeper surveys. Our source counts results are compatible with most previous samples in the soft, XID, ultra-hard and hard bands. The fractions of the XRB resolved in the surveys used in this work are 87%, 85%, 60% and 25% in the soft, hard, XID and ultra-hard bands, respectively. Extrapolation of our source counts to zero flux are not enough to saturate the XRB intensity. Only galaxies and/or absorbed AGN may be able contribute the remaining unresolved XRB intensity. Our results are compatible, within the errors, with recent revisions of the XRB intensity in the soft and hard bands. The maximum fractional contribution to the XRB comes from fluxes within about a decade of the break in the source counts (~1e-14 cgs), reaching ~50% of the total in the soft and hard bands. Using only AXIS sources, we have studied the angular correlation in those bands using a novel robust technique. Angular clustering (widely distributed over the sky and not confined to a few deep fields) is detected at 99-99.9% significance in the soft and XID bands, with no detection in the hard and ultra-hard band (probably due to the smaller number of sources). We cannot confirm the detection of significantly stronger clustering in the hard-spectrum hard sources. Medium depth surveys such as AXIS are essential to determine the evolution of the X-ray emission in the Universe below 10 keV.

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