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INTEGRAL/IBIS 17-yr hard X-ray all-sky survey
Authors: Krivonos Roman A., Sazonov Sergey Yu, Kuznetsova Ekaterina A., Lutovinov Alexander A., Mereminskiy Ilya A., Tsygankov Sergey S.
Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PRESS
Publication year: 2022
Journal: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Journal name in source: MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Journal acronym: MON NOT R ASTRON SOC
Volume: 510
Issue: 4
First page : 4796
Last page: 4807
Number of pages: 12
ISSN: 0035-8711
eISSN: 1365-2966
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab3751
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/174767217
The International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL), launched in 2002, continues its successful work in observing the sky at energies E > 20 keV. The legacy of the mission already includes a large number of discovered or previously poorly studied hard X-ray sources. The growing INTEGRAL archive allows one to conduct an all-sky survey including a number of deep extragalactic fields and the deepest ever hard X-ray survey of the Galaxy. Taking advantage of the data gathered over 17 yr with the IBIS coded-mask telescope of INTEGRAL, we conducted survey of hard X-ray sources, providing flux information from 17 to 290 keV. The catalogue includes 929 objects, 890 of which exceed a detection threshold of 4.5 sigma and the rest are detected at 4.0 sigma-4.5 sigma and belong to known catalogued hard X-ray sources. Among the identified sources of known or suspected nature, 376 are associated with the Galaxy and Magellanic clouds, including 145 low-mass and 115 high-mass X-ray binaries, 79 cataclysmic variables, and 37 of other types; and 440 are extragalactic, including 429 active galactic nuclei (AGNs), 2 ultra-luminous sources, 1 supernova (AT2018cow), and 8 galaxy clusters. 113 sources remain unclassified. 46 objects are detected in the hard X-ray band for the first time. The LogN-LogS distribution of 356 non-blazar AGNs is measured down to a flux of 2 x 10(-12) erg s(-1) cm(-2) and can be described by a power law with a slope of 1.44 +/- 0.09 and normalization 8 x 10(-3) deg(-2) at 10(-11) erg s(-1) cm(-2). The LogN-LogS distribution of unclassified sources indicates that the majority of them are of extragalactic origin.
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