The NuSTAR Serendipitous Survey: The 40-month Catalog and the Properties of the Distant High-energy X-Ray Source Population

We present the first full catalog and science results for the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) serendipitous survey. The catalog incorporates data taken during the first 40 months of NuSTAR operation, which provide 20 Ms of effective exposure time over 331 fields, with an areal coverag...

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Hauptverfasser: Lansbury, G. B., Stern, D., Aird, J., Alexander, D. M., Fuentes, C., Harrison, F. A., Treister, E., Bauer, F. E., Tomsick, J. A., Balokovi, M., Moro, A. Del, Gandhi, P., Ajello, M., Annuar, A., Ballantyne, D. R., Boggs, S. E., Brandt, W. N., Brightman, M., Chen, C.-T. J., Christensen, F. E., Civano, F., Comastri, A., Craig, W. W., Forster, K., Grefenstette, B. W., Hailey, C. J., Hickox, R. C., Jiang, B., Jun, H. D., Koss, M., Marchesi, S., Melo, A. D., Mullaney, J. R., Noirot, G., Schulze, S., Walton, D. J., Zappacosta, L., Zhang, W. W.
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Bauer, F. E.
Tomsick, J. A.
Balokovi, M.
Moro, A. Del
Gandhi, P.
Ajello, M.
Annuar, A.
Ballantyne, D. R.
Boggs, S. E.
Brandt, W. N.
Brightman, M.
Chen, C.-T. J.
Christensen, F. E.
Civano, F.
Comastri, A.
Craig, W. W.
Forster, K.
Grefenstette, B. W.
Hailey, C. J.
Hickox, R. C.
Jiang, B.
Jun, H. D.
Koss, M.
Marchesi, S.
Melo, A. D.
Mullaney, J. R.
Noirot, G.
Schulze, S.
Walton, D. J.
Zappacosta, L.
Zhang, W. W.
description We present the first full catalog and science results for the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) serendipitous survey. The catalog incorporates data taken during the first 40 months of NuSTAR operation, which provide 20 Ms of effective exposure time over 331 fields, with an areal coverage of 13 deg2, and 497 sources detected in total over the 3-24 keV energy range. There are 276 sources with spectroscopic redshifts and classifications, largely resulting from our extensive campaign of ground-based spectroscopic follow-up. We characterize the overall sample in terms of the X-ray, optical, and infrared source properties. The sample is primarily composed of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), detected over a large range in redshift from z = 0.002 to 3.4 (median of ), but also includes 16 spectroscopically confirmed Galactic sources. There is a large range in X-ray flux, from to −11, and in rest-frame 10-40 keV luminosity, from to 46, with a median of 44.1. Approximately 79% of the NuSTAR sources have lower-energy (
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subjects Active galactic nuclei
Astrophysics
ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY
CLASSIFICATION
GALAXIES
galaxies: active
galaxies: nuclei
GALAXY NUCLEI
Infrared analysis
KEV RANGE 10-100
LUMINOSITY
Optical properties
Physics
QUASARS
quasars: general
RED SHIFT
Sky surveys (astronomy)
Spectroscopic analysis
Spectroscopic telescopes
surveys
TELESCOPES
X RADIATION
X ray sources
X-ray fluxes
X-rays: general
XMM (spacecraft)
title The NuSTAR Serendipitous Survey: The 40-month Catalog and the Properties of the Distant High-energy X-Ray Source Population
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