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Title: The NuSTAR Extragalactic Surveys: The Number Counts of Active Galactic Nuclei and The Resolved Fraction of The Cosmic X-Ray Background

Journal Article · · The Astrophysical Journal (Online)
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  1. California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics
  2. Univ. of Cambridge (United Kingdom). Inst. of Astronomy; Durham Univ. (United Kingdom). Centre of Extragalactic Astronomy, Dept. of Physics
  3. Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States). Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics
  4. Durham Univ. (United Kingdom). Centre of Extragalactic Astronomy, Dept. of Physics
  5. Univ. of Sheffield (United Kingdom). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
  6. Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States). Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, School of Physics
  7. California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Jet Propulsion Lab.
  8. Clemson Univ., SC (United States). Kinard Lab of Physics, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
  9. Univ. de Toulouse (France). Inst. de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planetologie
  10. Pontifical Catholic Univ. of Chile, Santiago (Chile). Inst. de Astrofisica, Facultad de Fisica; Millennium Inst. of Astrophysics, Santiago (Chile); Space Science Inst., Boulder, CO (United States)
  11. Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States). Dept of Astronomy and Astrophysics; Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States). Inst. for Gravitation and the Cosmos; Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States). Dept. of Physics
  12. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Space Sciences Lab.
  13. Technical Univ. of Denmark, Lyngby (Denmark). DTU Space-National Space Inst.
  14. Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Bologna (Italy). Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna
  15. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Space Sciences Lab.; Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
  16. Univ. of Southampton (United Kingdom). School of Physics & Astronomy
  17. ASI Science Data Center (ASDC), Rome (Italy)
  18. Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States). Columbia Astrophysics Lab.
  19. Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
  20. Hiroshima Univ. (Japan). Dept. of Physical Science
  21. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Kavli Inst. for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
  22. ASI Science Data Center (ASDC), Rome (Italy); Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Monte Porzio Catone (Italy). Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma
  23. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
  24. Univ. de Concepcion (Chile). Dept. de Astronomia
  25. California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics; California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Jet Propulsion Lab.
  26. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, MD (United States)
  27. Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Monte Porzio Catone (Italy). Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma
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Research Organization:
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); European Research Council (ERC)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-76SF00515; NNG08FD60C; AC52-07NA27344
OSTI ID:
1360168
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1876983
Report Number(s):
LLNL-JRNL-837151
Journal Information:
The Astrophysical Journal (Online), Vol. 831, Issue 2; ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher:
IOP PublishingCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 43 works
Citation information provided by
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BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey. V. X-Ray Properties of the Swift /BAT 70-month AGN Catalog journal December 2017
The NuSTAR Extragalactic Surveys: Unveiling Rare, Buried AGNs and Detecting the Contributors to the Peak of the Cosmic X-Ray Background journal November 2018
The Spectrum of the Universe journal February 2018
The OTELO survey: I. Description, data reduction, and multi-wavelength catalogue journal October 2019
X-UDS: The Chandra Legacy Survey of the UKIDSS Ultra Deep Survey Field text January 2018
Compton-thick active galactic nuclei from the 7 Ms observation in the Chandra Deep Field South text January 2019
BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey - V. X-ray properties of the Swift/BAT 70-month AGN catalog text January 2017
Broad-band X-ray analysis of local mid-infrared-selected Compton-thick AGN candidates journal May 2019
Compton-thick active galactic nuclei from the 7 Ms observation in the Chandra Deep Field South journal September 2019
Black Holes and Neutron Stars in Nearby Galaxies: Insights from NuSTAR journal September 2018
The NuSTAR Extragalactic Surveys: Source Catalog and the Compton-thick Fraction in the UDS Field journal March 2018
The NuSTAR Serendipitous Survey: The 40-month Catalog and the Properties of the Distant High-energy X-Ray Source Population journal February 2017
The NuSTAR Extragalactic Surveys: X-Ray Spectroscopic Analysis of the Bright Hard-band Selected Sample journal February 2018
The XXL Survey: XXVII. The 3XLSS point source catalogue journal November 2018
Young Accreting Compact Objects in M31: The Combined Power of NuSTAR , Chandra , and Hubble journal July 2018
The shape of the cosmic X-ray background: nuclear starburst discs and the redshift evolution of AGN obscuration journal February 2018
The Accretion History of AGNs. I. Supermassive Black Hole Population Synthesis Model journal February 2019
Constraining black hole–galaxy scaling relations and radiative efficiency from galaxy clustering journal December 2019
Compton-thick AGN in the NuSTAR era IV: A deep NuSTAR and XMM-Newton view of the candidate Compton thick AGN in ESO 116-G018 text January 2018
X-UDS: The Chandra Legacy Survey of the UKIDSS Ultra Deep Survey Field journal June 2018
Compton-thick AGN in the NuSTAR Era. IV. A Deep NuSTAR and XMM-Newton View of the Candidate Compton-thick AGN in ESO 116-G018 journal January 2019
The OTELO survey. I. Description, data reduction, and multi-wavelength catalogue text January 2020

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