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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 368, Issue 4, Pages 1735-1741Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10240.x
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surveys; galaxies : active; galaxies : starburst; X-rays : diffuse background; X-rays : galaxies
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- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/F002963/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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The emission from individual X-ray sources in the Chandra Deep Fields and XMM-Newton Lockman Hole shows that almost half of the hard X-ray background above 6 keV is unresolved and implies the existence of a missing population of heavily obscured active galactic nuclei (AGN). We have stacked the 0.5-8 keV X-ray emission from optical sources in the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS; which covers the Chandra Deep Fields) to determine whether these galaxies, which are individually undetected in X-rays, are hosting the hypothesized missing AGN. In the 0.5-6 keV energy range, the stacked-source emission corresponds to the remaining 10-20 per cent of the total background - the fraction that has not been resolved by Chandra. The spectrum of the stacked emission is consistent with starburst activity or weak AGN emission. In the 6-8 keV band, we find that upper limits to the stacked X-ray intensity from the GOODS galaxies are consistent with the similar to 40 per cent of the total background that remains unresolved, but further selection refinement is required to identify the X-ray sources and confirm their contribution.
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