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The 105-Month Swift-BAT All-sky Hard X-Ray Survey

  • Kyuseok Oh
  • , Michael Koss
  • , Craig B. Markwardt
  • , Kevin Schawinski
  • , Wayne H. Baumgartner
  • , Scott D. Barthelmy
  • , S. Bradley Cenko
  • , Neil Gehrels
  • , Richard Mushotzky
  • , Abigail Petulante
  • , Claudio Ricci
  • , Amy Lien
  • , Benny Trakhtenbrot

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Abstract

We present a catalog of hard X-ray sources detected in the first 105 months of observations with the Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) coded-mask imager on board the Swift observatory. The 105-month Swift-BAT survey is a uniform hard X-ray all-sky survey with a sensitivity of over 90% of the sky and over 50% of the sky in the 14-195 keV band. The Swift-BAT 105-month catalog provides 1632 (422 new detections) hard X-ray sources in the 14-195 keV band above the significance level. Adding to the previously known hard X-ray sources, 34% (144/422) of the new detections are identified as Seyfert active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in nearby galaxies (). The majority of the remaining identified sources are X-ray binaries (7%, 31) and blazars/BL Lac objects (10%, 43). As part of this new edition of the Swift-BAT catalog, we release eight-channel spectra and monthly sampled light curves for each object in the online journal and at the Swift-BAT 105-month website.

Original languageEnglish
Article number4
JournalAstrophysical Journal, Supplement Series
Volume235
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 2018
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • X-rays: general
  • catalogs
  • surveys

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Space and Planetary Science

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