Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-10-16
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
8 pages, 12 figures, presented at the 6th INTEGRAL Workshop "The Obscured Universe", Moscow, 2-8 July 2006
Scientific paper
Analysis of INTEGRAL Core Program and public Open Time observations has recently provided a sample of 60 extragalactic sources selected in the 20-100 keV band above a flux of 1.5 10^-11 erg/cm2/s. As this band probes heavily obscured regions/objects, i.e. those that could be missed in optical, UV, and even X-ray surveys, our sample offers the opportunity to study the extragalactic sky from a different point of view with respect to surveys at lower energies. We present an update of our analysis, including the first sample of AGNs detected above 100 keV. We also discuss the results of follow up observations performed at optical and X-ray frequencies with the aim of classifying our objects and studying the effects of intrinsic absorption in gamma-ray selected AGNs. The average redshift of our sample is 0.134 while the mean 20-100 keV luminosity in Log is 43.84; if blazars are excluded these numbers become 0.022 and 43.48 respectively. Defining an absorbed object as one with NH above 10^22 atoms/cm2, we find that absorption is present in 60% of the objects with at most 14% of the total sample due to Compton thick active galaxies. Almost all Seyfert 2s in our sample are absorbed as are 24% of Seyfert 1s. We also present broad-band spectral information on a sub-sample of the brightest objects: our observations indicate a mean photon index of 1.8 spanning from 30-50 keV to greater than 200 keV. Finally, we discuss the LogN/LogS distribution in the 20-100 and 100-150 keV bands derived from our sample. The present data highlight the capability of INTEGRAL to probe the extragalactic gamma-ray sky, to discover new AGNs and to find absorbed objects.
Bassani Loredana
Malizia Angela
Stephen John B.
survey team for the INTEGRAL AGN
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