Fluctuations in the diffuse X-ray background observed with Ginga

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1997-07-11

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9707135v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

16 pages, LateX and 9 jpeg figures. Accepted in MNRAS. Also at http://www.ifca.unican.es/~barcons/preprints.html

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We present Ginga measurements of the spatial fluctuations in the diffuse X-ray background. When combined with earlier results, the new data constrain the extragalactic log N - log S relation in the 2-10 keV energy band to a form close to the Euclidean prediction over the flux range 1E-10 - 5E-13 erg/cm2/s. The normalisation of the 2-10 keV source counts is a factor 2-3 above that derived in the softer 0.3-3.5 keV band from the Einstein Extended Medium Sensitivity Survey if a spectral conversion is assumed which ignores X-ray absorption intrinsic to the sources. Both this result and the spectral characteristics of the spatial fluctuations are consistent with relatively low-luminosity active galaxies (i.e. L_X < 1E44 erg/s) dominating the 2-10 keV source counts at intermediate flux levels. We also use the `excess variance' of the fluctuations to constrain possible clustering of the underlying discrete sources.

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