Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Scientific paper
2011-09-05
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
9 pages including 6 figures and 2 tables, accepted for publication in PASJ; figure 4 and related numbers are updated to reflec
Scientific paper
We construct a new X-ray (2--10 keV) luminosity function of Compton-thin active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the local universe, using the first MAXI/GSC source catalog surveyed in the 4--10 keV band. The sample consists of 37 non-blazar AGNs at $z=0.002-0.2$, whose identification is highly ($>97%$) complete. We confirm the trend that the fraction of absorbed AGNs with $N_{\rm H} > 10^{22}$ cm$^{-2}$ rapidly decreases against luminosity ($L_{\rm X}$), from 0.73$\pm$0.25 at $L_{\rm X} = 10^{42-43.5}$ erg s$^{-1}$ to 0.12$\pm0.09$ at $L_{\rm X} = 10^{43.5-45.5}$ erg s$^{-1}$. The obtained luminosity function is well fitted with a smoothly connected double power-law model whose indices are $\gamma_1 = 0.84$ (fixed) and $\gamma_2 = 2.0\pm0.2$ below and above the break luminosity, $L_{*} = 10^{43.3\pm0.4}$ ergs s$^{-1}$, respectively. While the result of the MAXI/GSC agrees well with that of HEAO-1 at $L_{\rm X} \gtsim 10^{43.5}$ erg s$^{-1}$, it gives a larger number density at the lower luminosity range. Comparison between our luminosity function in the 2--10 keV band and that in the 14--195 keV band obtained from the Swift/BAT survey indicates that the averaged broad band spectra in the 2--200 keV band should depend on luminosity, approximated by $\Gamma\sim1.7$ for $L_{\rm X} \ltsim 10^{44}$ erg s$^{-1}$ while $\Gamma\sim 2.0$ for $L_{\rm X} \gtsim 10^{44}$ erg s$^{-1}$. This trend is confirmed by the correlation between the luminosities in the 2--10 keV and 14--195 keV bands in our sample. We argue that there is no contradiction in the luminosity functions between above and below 10 keV once this effect is taken into account.
collaboration the MAXI
Eguchi Satoshi
Hayashida Masaaki
Hiroi Kazuo
Ishikawa Masaki
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