Initial results from a ROSAT deep survey in Lynx

Details Initial results from a ROSAT deep survey in Lynx Initial results from a ROSAT deep survey in Lynx

Mar 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992xrea.conf..227a&link_type=abstract

In MPI für Extraterristrische Physik, X Ray Emission from Active Galactic Nuclei and the Cosmic X Ray Background p 227-230 (SEE

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Rosat Mission, Sky Surveys (Astronomy), Spectrum Analysis, X Ray Sources, Astronomical Catalogs, Background Radiation, Cosmic X Rays, Deep Space, Image Processing, Proportional Counters, Quasars, X Ray Astronomy

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Preliminary results from a deep (70 ksec) Rosat survey of the high galactic latitude selected area Lynx.3A are presented. Lynx.3A sensitivity was previously studied in both the optical radio, with deep Westerbork surveys and deep multicolor Charge Couple Device (CCD) images form the Palomar 200 inch Four-Shooter. About 70 x-ray sources were detected within the central 40 foot diameter region of the Position Sensitive Proportional Counter (PSPC), observed surface densities of approximately 200 x-ray sources/sq deg are suggested, and these x-ray sources alone account for approximately 30 percent of the cosmic x-ray background (0.9 to 2.2 keV). An initial look at the observed x-ray logN - logS curve is presented, but a detailed assessment requires further study. The 4 sigma limit of about 7 times 10 to the minus 15th power erg/s.sq cm (0.5 to 2.0 keV) is considerably deeper then the Einstein deep surveys, and of comparable sensitivity to the deepest current Rosat surveys. Cross correlation with our Four Shooter optical catalogs yields at least one likely optical candidate for nearly all of the Rosat x-ray sources; a number of the likely optical identifications have colors of quasi-stellar objects (and stellar PSF), but in other cases galaxies/groups are also viable candidates.

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