The Swift/BAT High Latitude Survey: First Results

Details The Swift/BAT High Latitude Survey: First Results The Swift/BAT High Latitude Survey: First Results

2005-09-28

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0509860v1

Astrophys.J.633:L77-L80,2005

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Final version submitted to ApJ Letters; on-line only Table 1 is included in-full in the article text

Scientific paper

10.1086/498569

We present preliminary results from the first 3 months of the Swift BAT high galactic latitude survey in the 14--195 keV band. The survey reaches a flux of \~10^{-11} erg/cm^2/s and has ~2.7' (90% confidence) positional uncertainties for the faintest sources. This represents the most sensitive survey to date in this energy band. These data confirm the conjectures that a high energy selected AGN sample would have very different properties from those selected in other bands and represent a `true' sample of the AGN population. We have identified 86% of the 66 high-latitude sources. 12 are galactic type sources and 44 can be identified with previously known AGN. All but 5 of the AGN have archival X-ray spectra, enabling the estimation of line of sight column densities and other spectral properties. Both of the z > 0.11 objects are Blazars. The median redshift of the others (excluding radio-loud objects) is 0.012. We find that the column density distribution of these AGN is bimodal with 64% of the non-blazar sources having column densities N_H >= 10^{22} cm$^{-2}$. None of the sources with log L_X > 43.5 show high column densities and very few of the lower L_X sources have low column densities. Based on these data, we expect the final BAT catalog to have >200 AGN and reach fluxes of less than ~10^{-11} erg/cm^2/s over the entire sky.

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