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The XMM-Newton Serendipitous Survey. VI. The X-ray Luminosity Function
J. Ebrero, F. J. Carrera, M. J. Page +6
We present the X-ray luminosity function of AGN in three energy bands (Soft: 0.5-2 keV, Hard: 2-10 keV and Ultrahard: 4.5-7.5 keV). We have used the XMS survey along with other hig…
High precision X-ray logN-logS distributions: implications for the obscured AGN population
S. Mateos, R. S. Warwick, F. J. Carrera +13
We have constrained the extragalactic source count distributions over a broad range of X-ray fluxes and in various energy bands to test whether the predictions from X-ray backgroun…
The cosmological properties of AGN in the XMM-Newton Hard Bright Survey
R. Della Ceca, A. Caccianiga, P. Severgnini +7
(ABRIDGED) We investigate here the XLF of absorbed (Nh between 4E21 and E24 cm-2) and unabsorbed (Nh < 4E21 cm-2) AGN, the fraction of absorbed AGN as a function of Lx (and z), the…
Science with Simbol-X
F. Fiore, M. Arnaud, U. Briel +20
Simbol-X is a French-Italian mission, with a participation of German laboratories, for X-ray astronomy in the wide 0.5-80 keV band. Taking advantage of emerging technology in mirro…
The Simbol-X view of the unresolved X-ray background
A. Comastri, R. Gilli, F. Fiore +3
We will briefly discuss the importance of sensitive X-ray observations above 10 keV for a better understanding of the physical mechanisms associated to the Supermassive Black Hole…
The XMM-Newton bright serendipitous survey. Identification and optical spectral properties
A. Caccianiga, P. Severgnini, R. Della Ceca +12
AIMS: We present the optical classification and redshift of 348 X-ray selected sources from the XMM-Newton Bright Serendipitous Survey (XBS) which contains a total of 400 objects (…
Heavily obscured AGN with BeppoSAX, INTEGRAL, SWIFT, XMM and Chandra: prospects for Simbol-X
R. Della Ceca, P. Severgnini, A. Caccianiga +6
According to the latest versions of synthesis modeling of the Cosmic X-ray Background, Compton Thick AGN should represent ~50% of the total absorbed AGN population. However, despit…
Elusive AGN in the XMM-Newton bright serendipitous survey
A. Caccianiga, P. Severgnini, R. Della Ceca +3
AIMS: We investigate here the nature of all the sources (35 in total) in the XBS survey (which is 86% optically identified) showing an optical spectrum dominated by the light from…
The XMM-SSC survey of hard-spectrum XMM-Newton sources 1: optically bright sources
M. J. Page, I. Lehmann, Th. Boller +15
We present optical and X-ray data for a sample of serendipitous XMM-Newton sources that are selected to have 0.5-2 keV vs 2-4.5 keV X-ray hardness ratios which are harder than the…
The XMM-Newton serendipitous survey IV. The AXIS X-ray source counts and angular clustering
F. J. Carrera, J. Ebrero, S. Mateos +14
AXIS (An XMM-Newton International Survey) is a survey of 36 high Galactic latitude XMM-Newton observations covering 4.8 deg2 and containing 1433 serendipitous X-ray sources detecte…
Searching for absorbed AGN in the 2XMM-Newton pre-release EPIC Serendipitous Source Catalogue
Elisabetta Memola, Alessandro Caccianiga, Filomena Cocchia +7
We aim to test a method of efficiently selecting X-ray obscured AGN in the 2XMM-Newton EPIC Serendipitous Source Catalogue. By means of a strong correlation established using the X…
The Kormendy relation of massive elliptical galaxies at z~1.5. Evidence for size evolution ?
M. Longhetti, P. Saracco, P. Severgnini +6
We present the morphological analysis based on HST-NIC2 (0.075 arcsec/pixel) images in the F160W filter of a sample of 9 massive field (> 10^{11} M_\odot) galaxies spectroscopicall…
The stellar content of the XMM-Newton Bright Serendipitous Survey
J. Lopez-Santiago, G. Micela, S. Sciortino +5
Context: The comparison of observed counts in a given sky direction with predictions by Galactic models yields constraints to the spatial distribution and the stellar birthrate of…
The Bright Side of the Hard X-ray Sky: The XMM-Newton Bright Survey
R. Della Ceca, A. Caccianiga, P. Severgnini +3
We discuss here the main goals and some interesting results of the "XMM-Newton Bright Serendipitous Survey", a research program conducted by the XMM-Newton Survey Science Center in…
Unveiling the nature of Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies with 3-4 micron spectroscopy
G. Risaliti, R. Maiolino, A. Marconi +6
We present the results of L-band spectroscopical observations of local bright ULIRGs, performed with ISAAC at the VLT. We discuss the L-band spectral features of seven single sourc…
X-ray Spectral Survey with XMM--Newton of a Complete Sample of Nearby Seyfert Galaxies
M. Cappi, F. Panessa, L. Bassani +15
Results obtained from an X-ray spectral survey of nearby Seyfert galaxies using XMM--Newton are reported. The sample was optically selected, well defined, complete in B mag, and di…
Dating the stellar population in massive early-type galaxies at 1.5
M. Longhetti, P. Saracco, P. Severgnini +7
We present the analysis of 10 massive early-type galaxies at . They have been identified by means of a near-IR low resolution spectroscopic follow-up of a complete sample…
The first optical validation of an XLEO: a detection in the XMM-Newton observation of the CDFS
V. Braito, T. Maccacaro, A. Caccianiga +2
We present the first optical validation of an X-ray Line-Emitting Object (XLEO) discovered in the XMM-Newton observation of the Chandra Deep Field South. The object is an AGN at z_…
The density of very massive evolved galaxies to z~1.7
P. Saracco, M. Longhetti, P. Severgnini +8
We spectroscopically identified 7 massive evolved galaxies with magnitudes 17.8<K<18.4 at 1.3<z<1.7 over an area of ~160 arcmin^2 of the MUNICS survey. Their rest-frame K-band abso…
Looking for obscured QSOs in the X-ray emitting ERO population
P. Severgnini, R. Della Ceca, V. Braito +8
We present XMM-Newton data centered on one of the MUNICS Near Infrared Cluster Survey fields (S2F1) and we discuss the X-ray properties of the 6 X-ray emitting EROs found. For one…
XMM-Newton spectroscopy of an X-ray selected sample of RL AGNs
E. Galbiati, A. Caccianiga, T. Maccacaro +6
This paper presents the X-ray spectroscopy of an X-ray selected sample of 25 radio-loud (RL) AGNs extracted from the XBSS sample. The main goal is to study the origin of the X-ray…
First XMM-Newton study of two Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 galaxies discovered in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
L. Foschini, V. Braito, G. G. C. Palumbo +6
The Early Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) contains 150 Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxies, most of them previously unknown. We present here the study of the…
X-ray properties of the "Composite" Seyfert/Star-forming galaxies
A. Wolter, G. Trinchieri, R. Della Ceca +7
An enigmatic, small class of IR and X-ray luminous sources, named ``Composite'' starburst/Seyfert galaxies, has been defined from IRAS and RASS data. The objects have optical spect…
Exploring the X-ray Sky with the XMM-Newton Bright Serendipitous Survey
R. Della Ceca, T. Maccacaro, A. Caccianiga +11
ABRIDGED. We present "The XMM-Newton Bright Serendipitous Survey", two flux-limited samples with flux limit fx ~7E-14 cgs in the 0.5-4.5 keV (BSS) and 4.5-7.5 keV (HBSS) energy ban…