Resolving the 10-40 keV Cosmic X-ray Background with Constellation-X

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2000-07-08

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0007106v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

To appear in the proceedings of "X-Ray Astronomy '99", 1999, September 6-10, Bologna (Italy)

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.1434736

The energy density of the Cosmic X-ray background (XRB) peaks around 30 keV (see Figure 1), an energy not yet probed by focussing imaging instruments. The first hard X-ray telescope due to fly on a space mission will be that on board Constellation-X. The imaging capability, besides providing an improvement of several orders of magnitude in sensitivity over current passively collimated detectors, will permit for the first time to resolve a fraction of the XRB at this most crucial energy. Synthesis models of the XRB based on obscured AGN predict that at least 40% of the 10-40 keV XRB will be resolved by Constellation-X.

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