A complete X-ray sample of the high latitude sky from HEAO-1 A-2 : log N lo S and luminosity functions

Author:: Piccinotti, G.
Published:: Aug 1, 1981.
Physical Description:: 1 electronic document
Additional Creators:: Shafer, R. A., Marshall, F. E., Holt, S. S., Boldt, E. A., Serlemitsos, P. J., and Mushotzky, R. F.

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An experiment was performed in which a complete X-ray survey of the 8.2 steradians of the sky at galactic latitudes where the absolute value of b is 20 deg down to a limiting sensitivity of 3.1 x ten to the minus 11th power ergs/sq cm sec in the 2-10 keV band. Of the 85 detected sources 17 were identified with galactic objects, 61 were identified with extragalactic objects, and 7 remain unidentified. The log N - log S relation for the non-galactic objects is well fit by the Euclidean relationship. The X-ray spectra of these objects were used to construct log N - log S in physical units. The complete sample of identified sources was used to construct X-ray luminosity functions, using the absolute maximum likelihood method, for clusters galaxies and active galactic nuclei.

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Document ID: 19820010913.
Accession ID: 82N18787.
NASA-TM-82168.

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