Resolving the X-ray background

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Worsley, MA [1 ]
Fabian, AC [1 ]
Alexander, DM [1 ]
Bauert, FE [1 ]
Brandt, WN [1 ]
Hasinger, G [1 ]
Lehmer, BD [1 ]
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[1] Univ Cambridge, Inst Astron, Cambridge CB3 0HA, England
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X-ray observations; active galactic nuclei; starburst galaxies; X-ray background; DEEP FIELD-SOUTH; CHANDRA; SPECTRUM; GALAXIES; ORIGIN;
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We have stacked the X-ray emission from X-ray-detected sources in similar to 3.8 Ms of Chandra Deep Field and XMM-Newton Lockman Hole observations. The fraction of the X-ray background which can be resolved into point sources is similar to 70-90% up to 4 keV. In the 6-8 keV band this fraction decreases to similar to 50-70% and XMM-Newton indicates only similar to 40-60% in the 8-12 keV range. The unresolved fraction is consistent with an undiscovered population of highly obscured AGN. To attempt to uncover this population we proceeded to stack the X-ray emission from the X-ray-undetected optical sources in the Chandra Deep Fields, using Hubble source positions from the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey. In the 0.5-6 keV range the stacked-source emission corresponds to the remaining 10-20% of the X-ray background. In the 6-8 keV band we find upper limits to the stacked X-ray flux consistent with the remaining similar to 40% of the background, but the errors are too large to claim a detection of the obscured AGN population.
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