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dc.contributor.author | Akylas, A. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Georgantopoulos, I. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Ranalli, P. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Gkiokas, E. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Corral, A. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | LANZUISI, Giorgio | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-07-01T16:08:59Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2020-07-01T16:08:59Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0004-6361 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/26280 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The 70-month Swift-BAT catalogue provides a sensitive view of the extragalactic X-ray sky at hard energies (>10 keV) containing about 800 active galactic nuclei (AGN). We explore its content in heavily obscured, Compton-thick AGN by combining the BAT (14-195 keV) with the lower energy XRT (0.3-10 keV) data. We apply a Bayesian methodology using Markov chains to estimate the exact probability distribution of the column density for each source. We find 53 possible Compton-thick sources (probability range 3-100%) translating to a ~7% fraction of the AGN in our sample. We derive the first parametric luminosity function of Compton-thick AGN. The unabsorbed luminosity function can be represented by a double power law with a break at L<SUB>⋆</SUB> ~ 2 × 10<SUP>42</SUP>erg s<SUP>-1</SUP> in the 20-40 keV band. The Compton-thick AGN contribute ~17% of the total AGN emissivity. We derive an accurate Compton-thick number count distribution taking into account the exact probability of a source being Compton-thick and the flux uncertainties. This number count distribution is critical for the calibration of the X-ray background synthesis models, I.e. for constraining the intrinsic fraction of Compton-thick AGN. We find that the number counts distribution in the 14-195 keV band agrees well with our models which adopt a low intrinsic fraction of Compton-thick AGN (~ 12%) among the total AGN population and a reflected emission of ~ 5%. In the extreme case of zero reflection, the number counts can be modelled with a fraction of at most 30% Compton-thick AGN of the total AGN population and no reflection. Moreover, we compare our X-ray background synthesis models with the number counts in the softer 2-10 keV band. This band is more sensitive to the reflected component and thus helps us to break the degeneracy between the fraction of Compton-thick AGN and the reflection emission. The number counts in the 2-10 keV band are well above the models which assume a 30% Compton-thick AGN fraction and zero reflection, while they are in better agreement with models assuming 12% Compton-thick fraction and 5% reflection. The only viable alternative for models invoking a high number of Compton-thick AGN is to assume evolution in their number with redshift. For example, in the zero reflection model the intrinsic fraction of Compton-thick AGN should rise from 30% at redshift z ~ 0 to about 50% at a redshift of z = 1.1. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.title | Compton-thick AGN in the 70-month Swift-BAT All-Sky Hard X-ray Survey: A Bayesian approach | en_US |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1051/0004-6361/201628711 | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopus | 2-s2.0-84991677318 | en_US |
dc.identifier.isi | 000385832200084 | en_US |
dc.identifier.url | https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2016/10/aa28711-16/aa28711-16.html | en_US |
dc.relation.medium | STAMPA | en_US |
dc.relation.volume | 594 | en_US |
dc.relation.firstpage | A73 | en_US |
dc.type.referee | REF_1 | en_US |
dc.description.numberofauthors | 6 | en_US |
dc.contributor.country | ITA | en_US |
dc.contributor.country | ESP | en_US |
dc.contributor.country | GRC | en_US |
dc.relation.scientificsector | FIS/05 - ASTRONOMIA E ASTROFISICA | en_US |
dc.relation.journal | ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS | en_US |
dc.type.miur | 262 Articolo in rivista | - |
dc.identifier.adsbibcode | 2016A&A...594A..73A | en_US |
dc.description.apc | no | en_US |
dc.description.oa | 1 – prodotto con file in versione Open Access (allegare il file al passo 5-Carica) | en_US |
item.cerifentitytype | Publications | - |
item.openairecristype | http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_18cf | - |
item.fulltext | With Fulltext | - |
item.grantfulltext | open | - |
item.languageiso639-1 | en | - |
item.openairetype | Article | - |
crisitem.journal.journalissn | 0004-6361 | - |
crisitem.journal.ance | E016240 | - |
crisitem.author.dept | OAS Bologna | - |
crisitem.author.orcid | 0000-0001-9094-0984 | - |
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