The colour of the Deep ROSAT X-ray sky fluctuations

Details The colour of the Deep ROSAT X-ray sky fluctuations The colour of the Deep ROSAT X-ray sky fluctuations

1996-11-05

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9611029v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, Latex (mn.sty), 3 figures included (epsf), postscript version also available via anonymous ftp at ftp://astsun1.ifc

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We have carried out a fluctuation analysis in four bands (R4, R5, R6 and R7 corresponding to 0.44-1.01 keV, 0.56-1.21 keV, 0.73-1.56 keV and to 1.05-2.04 keV respectively) of two very deep ROSAT PSPC observations in directions where the galactic H{\small I} column is minimal. This has enabled us to study the average spectrum of the sources contributing to 0.5-2 keV fluxes $\sim 10^{-15} \rm \ergpcmsqps$. The best fit spectral energy index for the average faint source spectrum, $\alpha=0.95^{+0.10}_{-0.15}$, is still steeper than the one measured for the extragalactic XRB at these energies $\alpha\sim 0.4-0.7$, but flatter than the typical AGN spectral index $\alpha\sim 1-1.5$. This result has allowed us to constrain the existence of a population of sources harder than the AGNs contributing to the source counts at these fluxes. We find that a population of X-ray sources with energy spectral index $\alpha\sim 0.4-0.6$ would contribute $(30\pm 20)$ per cent to the source counts at these fluxes if the rest of them are AGNs with energy spectral index $\alpha\sim 1.2$.

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