Table · dataset · 2015
NuSTAR surveys: COSMOS catalog
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To provide the census of the sources contributing to the X-ray background peak above 10keV, Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) is performing extragalactic surveys using a three-tier "wedding cake" approach.
Description
We present the NuSTAR survey of the COSMOS field, the medium sensitivity, and medium area tier, covering 1.7deg^2^ and overlapping with both Chandra and XMM-Newton data. This survey consists of 121 observations for a total exposure of ~3Ms.
To fully exploit these data, we developed a new detection strategy, carefully tested through extensive simulations. The survey sensitivity at 20% completeness is 5.9, 2.9, and 6.4x10^-14^erg/cm^2^/s in the 3-24, 3-8, and 8-24keV bands, respectively. By combining detections in 3 bands, we have a sample of 91 NuSTAR sources with 10^42^-10^45.5^erg/cm^2^/s luminosities and redshift z=0.04-2.5.
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Thirty-two sources are detected in the 8-24keV band with fluxes ~100 times fainter than sources detected by Swift-BAT. Of the 91 detections, all but 4 are associated with a Chandra and/or XMM-Newton point-like counterpart. One source is associated with an extended lower energy X-ray source.
We present the X-ray (hardness ratio and luminosity) and optical-to-X-ray properties. The observed fraction of candidate Compton-thick active galactic nuclei measured from the hardness ratio is between 13%-20%. We discuss the spectral properties of NuSTAR J100259+0220.6 (ID 330) at z=0.044, with the highest hardness ratio in the entire sample.
The measured column density exceeds 10^24^/cm2, implying the source is Compton-thick. This source was not previously recognized as such without the >10keV data.
Links
Where it is published
- Reference page cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/808/185 ↗
landing page · from IVOA Registry
Documentation and papers
- ADS 2015ApJ...808..185C ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015ApJ...808..185C ↗
publication · from IVOA Registry
Catalogue records · 2
- VOResource record dc.g-vo.org/oai.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=ivo_vor&identifier=ivo%3… ↗
metadata API · from IVOA Registry
- Registry record (GAVO) dc.g-vo.org/I/cds.vizier/j/apj/808/185 ↗
catalogue entry · from IVOA Registry
Topics
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics
- Inferred from text
- Astronomical sciences 70%
Provenance · 1 source records, 10 field assertions
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