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1. AGNs detected by 60 month Swift/BAT survey
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/749/21
Title:
AGNs detected by 60 month Swift/BAT survey
Short Name:
J/ApJ/749/21
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Surveys above 10 keV represent one of the best resources to provide an unbiased census of the population of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). We present the results of 60 months of observation of the hard X-ray sky with Swift/Burst Alert Telescope (BAT). In this time frame, BAT-detected (in the 15-55keV band) 720 sources in an all-sky survey of which 428 are associated with AGNs, most of which are nearby. Our sample has negligible incompleteness and statistics a factor of ~2 larger over similarly complete sets of AGNs. Our sample contains (at least) 15 bona fide Compton-thick AGNs and 3 likely candidates. Compton-thick AGNs represent ~5% of AGN samples detected above 15keV. We use the BAT data set to refine the determination of the log N-log S of AGNs which is extremely important, now that NuSTAR prepares for launch, toward assessing the AGN contribution to the cosmic X-ray background. We show that the log N-log S of AGNs selected above 10 keV is now established to ~10% precision. We derive the luminosity function of Compton-thick AGNs and measure a space density of 7.9^+4.1^_-2.9_x10^-5^/Mpc3 for objects with a de-absorbed luminosity larger than 2x10^42^erg/s. As the BAT AGNs are all mostly local, they allow us to investigate the spatial distribution of AGNs in the nearby universe regardless of absorption. We find concentrations of AGNs that coincide spatially with the largest congregations of matter in the local (<=85Mpc) universe. There is some evidence that the fraction of Seyfert 2 objects is larger than average in the direction of these dense regions.
2. BAT X-ray survey. I.
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/678/102
Title:
BAT X-ray survey. I.
Short Name:
J/ApJ/678/102
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We applied the maximum likelihood (ML) method, as an image reconstruction algorithm, to the BAT (Burst Alert Telescope) X-Ray Survey (BXS). This method was specifically designed to preserve the full statistical information in the data and to avoid mosaicking of many exposures with different pointing directions, thus reducing systematic errors when co-adding images. We reconstructed, in the 14-170keV energy band, the image of a 90x90deg^2^ sky region, centered on (RA, DE)=(105{deg}, -25{deg}), which BAT surveyed with an exposure time of ~1Ms (in 2005 November). The best sensitivity in our image is ~0.85mCrab or 2.0x10^-11^ergs/cm^2^. We detect 49 hard X-ray sources above the 4.5{sigma} level; of these, only 12 were previously known as hard X-ray sources (>15keV). Swift XRT observations allowed us to firmly identify the counterparts for 15 objects, while 2 objects have Einstein IPC counterparts (Harris et al., 1990, in Imaging X-Ray Astronomy. A Decade of Achievements, ed. M. Elvis (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press), 309); in addition to those, we found a likely counterpart for 13 objects by correlating our sample with the ROSAT All-Sky Survey Bright Source Catalog (Voges et al., 1999, Cat. <IX/10>). Seven objects remain unidentified.
3. BAT X-ray Survey - III
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/673/96
Title:
BAT X-ray Survey - III
Short Name:
J/ApJ/673/96
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
In this concluding part of the series of three papers dedicated to the Swift BAT hard X-ray survey (BXS), we focus on the X-ray spectral analysis and statistical properties of the source sample. Using a dedicated method to extract time-averaged spectra of BAT sources, we show that Galactic sources have, generally, softer spectra than extragalactic objects and that Seyfert 2 galaxies are harder than Seyfert 1's.
4. Hard X-ray survey from Swift-BAT 2004-2006
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/186/378
Title:
Hard X-ray survey from Swift-BAT 2004-2006
Short Name:
J/ApJS/186/378
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present the catalog of sources detected in the first 22 months of data from the hard X-ray survey (14-195keV) conducted with the Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) coded mask imager on the Swift satellite. The catalog contains 461 sources detected above the 4.8{sigma} level with BAT. High angular resolution X-ray data for every source from Swift-XRT or archival data have allowed associations to be made with known counterparts in other wavelength bands for over 97% of the detections, including the discovery of ~30 galaxies previously unknown as active galactic nuclei and several new Galactic sources. A total of 266 of the sources are associated with Seyfert galaxies (median redshift z~0.03) or blazars, with the majority of the remaining sources associated with X-ray binaries in our Galaxy. This ongoing survey is the first uniform all-sky hard X-ray survey since HEAO-1 in 1977 (Fishman G.J., 1977IAUC.3134....1F). Since the publication of the nine-month BAT survey (Tueller, 2008, Cat. <J/ApJ/681/113>) we have increased the number of energy channels from four to eight and have substantially increased the number of sources with accurate average spectra. The BAT 22 month catalog is the product of the most sensitive all-sky survey in the hard X-ray band, with a detection sensitivity (4.8{sigma}) of 2.2x10^-11^erg/cm^2^/s (1mCrab) over most of the sky in the 14-195keV band.
5. Hard X-ray survey from Swift-BAT 2004-2010
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/207/19
Title:
Hard X-ray survey from Swift-BAT 2004-2010
Short Name:
J/ApJS/207/19
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present the catalog of sources detected in 70 months of observations with the Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) hard X-ray detector on the Swift gamma-ray burst observatory. The Swift-BAT 70 month survey has detected 1171 hard X-ray sources (more than twice as many sources as the previous 22 month survey) in the 14-195 keV band down to a significance level of 4.8{sigma}, associated with 1210 counterparts. The 70 month Swift-BAT survey is the most sensitive and uniform hard X-ray all-sky survey and reaches a flux level of 1.03x10^-11^erg/s/cm2 over 50% of the sky and 1.34x10^-11^erg/s/cm2 over 90% of the sky. The majority of new sources in the 70 month survey continue to be active galactic nuclei, with over 700 in the catalog.
6. Palermo Swift-BAT Hard X-ray Catalogue
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/510/A48
Title:
Palermo Swift-BAT Hard X-ray Catalogue
Short Name:
J/A+A/510/A48
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present the Palermo Swift-BAT hard X-ray catalogue obtained from the analysis of the the data relative to the first 39 months of the Swift mission. We have developed a dedicated software to perform data reduction, mosaicking and source detection on the BAT survey data. We analyzed the BAT dataset in three energy bands (14-150keV, 14-30keV, 14-70keV), obtaining a list of 962 detections above a significance threshold of 4.8 standard deviations. The identification of the source counterparts was pursued using three strategies: cross-correlation with published hard X-ray catalogues, analysis of field observations of soft X-ray instruments, cross-correlation with the SIMBAD database. The survey covers 90% of the sky down to a flux limit of 2.5x10^-11^erg/cm^2^/s and 50% of the sky down to a flux limit of 1.8x10^-11^erg/cm^2^/s in the 14-150keV band. We derived a catalogue of 754 identified sources, of which ~69% are extragalactic, ~27% are Galactic objects, ~4% are already known X-ray or gamma ray emitters whose nature has not been determined yet. The integrated flux of the extragalactic sample is ~1% of the Cosmic X-ray background in the 14-150keV range.
7. SwiftFT catalog
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/528/A122
Title:
SwiftFT catalog
Short Name:
J/A+A/528/A122
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
An accurate census of the active galactic nuclei (AGN) is a key step in investigating the nature of the correlation between the growth and evolution of super massive black holes and galaxy evolution. X-ray surveys provide one of the most efficient ways of selecting AGN.
8. Swift Master Catalog
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/B/swift
Title:
Swift Master Catalog
Short Name:
B/swift
Date:
20 Mar 2022 06:12:03
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
(no description available)
9. Swift/UVOT Serendipitous Source Catalog
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/II/339
Title:
Swift/UVOT Serendipitous Source Catalog
Short Name:
II/339
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The first version of the Swift UVOT serendipitous source catalogue (UVOTSSC) provides positions and magnitudes, as well as errors and upper limits of confirmed sources for observations taken from start of operations in 2005 until October 1st of 2010. The first version of the Swift UVOT Serendipitous Source Catalogue (UVOTSSC) has been produced by processing the image data obtained from the Swift Ultraviolet and Optical Telescope (UVOT) from the beginning of the mission (2005) until 1st of October of 2010. The data processing was performed at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL, University College London, U.K.) using Swift FTOOLS from NASA's High Energy Astrophysics Software (HEASoft-6.11), with some customising of the UVOT packages in order to get more complete source detection and properly apply quality flags to those sources that were detected within the UVOT image artefacts. The total number of observations with 17'x17' images used for version 1 of the catalogue is 23,059, giving 6,200,016 sources in total, of which 2,027,265 have multiple entries in the source table because they have been detected in more than one observation. Some sources were only observed in one filter. The total number of entries in the source table is 13,860,568. The S/N ratio for all sources exceeds 5 for at least one UVOT filter, the rest of the filters having a S/N greater than 3.
10. 2SXPS Swift X-ray telescope point source catalogue
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/IX/58
Title:
2SXPS Swift X-ray telescope point source catalogue
Short Name:
IX/58
Date:
22 Feb 2022
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present the 2SXPS (Swift-XRT Point Source) catalog, containing 206,335 point sources detected by the Swift X-ray Telescope (XRT) in the 0.3-10 keV energy range. This catalog represents a significant improvement over 1SXPS, with double the sky coverage (now 3,790deg^2^), and several significant improvements in source detection and classification. In particular, we present for the first time techniques to model the effect of stray light - significantly reducing the number of spurious sources detected. These techniques will be very important for future, large effective area X-ray mission such as the forthcoming Athena X-ray observatory. We also present a new model of the XRT point spread function, and a method for correctly localising and characterising piled up sources. We provide light curves - in four energy bands, two hardness ratios and two binning timescales -- for every source, and from these deduce that over 80,000 of the sources in 2SXPS are variable in at least one band or hardness ratio. The catalog data can be queried or downloaded via a bespoke web interface at https://www.swift.ac.uk/2SXPS, via HEASARC, or in Vizier (IX/58)