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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

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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
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); European Research Council (ERC)
OSTI Identifier:
1360168
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1876983
Report Number(s):
LLNL-JRNL-837151
Journal ID: ISSN 1538-4357
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-76SF00515; NNG08FD60C; AC52-07NA27344
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
The Astrophysical Journal (Online)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: The Astrophysical Journal (Online); Journal Volume: 831; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher:
IOP Publishing
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; galaxies; active galaxies; nuclei galaxies; Seyfert surveys X-rays; diffuse background

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Harrison, F. A., Aird, J., Civano, F., Lansbury, G., Mullaney, J. R., Ballantyne, D. R., Alexander, D. M., Stern, D., Ajello, M., Barret, D., Bauer, F. E., Baloković, M., Brandt, W. N., Brightman, M., Boggs, S. E., Christensen, F. E., Comastri, A., Craig, W. W., Moro, A. Del, Forster, K., Gandhi, P., Giommi, P., Grefenstette, B. W., Hailey, C. J., Hickox, R. C., Hornstrup, A., Kitaguchi, T., Koglin, J., Luo, B., Madsen, K. K., Mao, P. H., Miyasaka, H., Mori, K., Perri, M., Pivovaroff, M., Puccetti, S., Rana, V., Treister, E., Walton, D., Westergaard, N. J., Wik, D., Zappacosta, L., Zhang, W. W., and Zoglauer, A. The NuSTAR Extragalactic Surveys: The Number Counts of Active Galactic Nuclei and The Resolved Fraction of The Cosmic X-Ray Background. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.3847/0004-637X/831/2/185.
Harrison, F. A., Aird, J., Civano, F., Lansbury, G., Mullaney, J. R., Ballantyne, D. R., Alexander, D. M., Stern, D., Ajello, M., Barret, D., Bauer, F. E., Baloković, M., Brandt, W. N., Brightman, M., Boggs, S. E., Christensen, F. E., Comastri, A., Craig, W. W., Moro, A. Del, Forster, K., Gandhi, P., Giommi, P., Grefenstette, B. W., Hailey, C. J., Hickox, R. C., Hornstrup, A., Kitaguchi, T., Koglin, J., Luo, B., Madsen, K. K., Mao, P. H., Miyasaka, H., Mori, K., Perri, M., Pivovaroff, M., Puccetti, S., Rana, V., Treister, E., Walton, D., Westergaard, N. J., Wik, D., Zappacosta, L., Zhang, W. W., & Zoglauer, A. The NuSTAR Extragalactic Surveys: The Number Counts of Active Galactic Nuclei and The Resolved Fraction of The Cosmic X-Ray Background. United States. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/831/2/185
Harrison, F. A., Aird, J., Civano, F., Lansbury, G., Mullaney, J. R., Ballantyne, D. R., Alexander, D. M., Stern, D., Ajello, M., Barret, D., Bauer, F. E., Baloković, M., Brandt, W. N., Brightman, M., Boggs, S. E., Christensen, F. E., Comastri, A., Craig, W. W., Moro, A. Del, Forster, K., Gandhi, P., Giommi, P., Grefenstette, B. W., Hailey, C. J., Hickox, R. C., Hornstrup, A., Kitaguchi, T., Koglin, J., Luo, B., Madsen, K. K., Mao, P. H., Miyasaka, H., Mori, K., Perri, M., Pivovaroff, M., Puccetti, S., Rana, V., Treister, E., Walton, D., Westergaard, N. J., Wik, D., Zappacosta, L., Zhang, W. W., and Zoglauer, A. Mon . "The NuSTAR Extragalactic Surveys: The Number Counts of Active Galactic Nuclei and The Resolved Fraction of The Cosmic X-Ray Background". United States. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/831/2/185. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1360168.
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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},
author = {Harrison, F. A. and Aird, J. and Civano, F. and Lansbury, G. and Mullaney, J. R. and Ballantyne, D. R. and Alexander, D. M. and Stern, D. and Ajello, M. and Barret, D. and Bauer, F. E. and Baloković, M. and Brandt, W. N. and Brightman, M. and Boggs, S. E. and Christensen, F. E. and Comastri, A. and Craig, W. W. and Moro, A. Del and Forster, K. and Gandhi, P. and Giommi, P. and Grefenstette, B. W. and Hailey, C. J. and Hickox, R. C. and Hornstrup, A. and Kitaguchi, T. and Koglin, J. and Luo, B. and Madsen, K. K. and Mao, P. H. and Miyasaka, H. and Mori, K. and Perri, M. and Pivovaroff, M. and Puccetti, S. and Rana, V. and Treister, E. and Walton, D. and Westergaard, N. J. and Wik, D. and Zappacosta, L. and Zhang, W. W. and Zoglauer, A.},
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