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2002ApJ...564L...5M - Astrophys. J., 564, L5-L8 (2002/January-1)

Faint-source counts from off-source fluctuation analysis on Chandra observations of the Hubble Deep Field-North.

MIYAJI T. and GRIFFITHS R.E.

Abstract (from CDS):

We report the results of fluctuation analysis of the off-source field from the 1 million second Chandra observation of the Hubble Deep Field-North (HDF-N). The distribution of the counts in cells has been compared with the expectations from the logN-logS model to constrain the behavior of the source number density down to a factor of several lower than the source detection limit. Our results show that the number counts in the soft band (0.5-2 keV) continue to grow down to SX∼7x10–18 ergs.s–1.cm–2, possibly suggesting the emergence of a new population, and agree well with a prediction of star-forming galaxies by Ptak et al. The fluctuation analysis can loosely constrain the source counts fainter than the detection limit, and we found an upper limit of ≲10,000 sources deg–2 at SX∼2x10–16 ergs.s–1.cm–2 in the hard (2-10 keV) band.

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Journal keyword(s): Cosmology: Diffuse Radiation - Galaxies: Active - Galaxies: Evolution - X-Rays: Diffuse Background

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