INTEGRAL/IBIS deep extragalactic survey: M81, LMC and 3C 273/Coma fields

• Published in: Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2016-06, Vol.459 (1), p.140-150
• Main Authors: Mereminskiy, Ilya A., Krivonos, Roman A., Lutovinov, Alexander A., Sazonov, Sergey Yu, Revnivtsev, Mikhail G., Sunyaev, Rashid A.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Active galactic nuclei; Coma; Galaxies; Integrals; Magellanic clouds; Magnetic fields; Pollution sources; Space telescopes; Stars & galaxies; X-ray astronomy; X-ray sources; X-rays
• ISSN: 0035-8711; 1365-2966
• DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw613

We present results of a deep survey of three extragalactic fields, M81 (exposure of 9.7 Ms), Large Magellanic Cloud (6.8 Ms) and 3C 273/Coma (9.3 Ms), in the hard X-ray (17–60 keV) energy band with the IBIS telescope onboard the INTEGRAL observatory, based on 12 years of observations (2003–2015). The combined survey reaches a 4σ peak sensitivity of 0.18 mCrab (2.6 × 10−12 erg s−1 cm−2) and sensitivity better than 0.25 and 0.87 mCrab over 10 per cent and 90 per cent of its full area of 4900 deg2, respectively. We have detected in total 147 sources at S/N > 4σ, including 37 sources observed in hard X-rays for the first time. The survey is dominated by extragalactic sources, mostly active galactic nuclei (AGN). The sample of identified sources contains 98 AGN (including 64 Seyfert galaxies, seven low-ionization nuclear emission-line region galaxies, three X-ray bright optically normal galaxies, 16 blazars and eight AGN of unclear optical class), two galaxy clusters (Coma and Abell 3266), 17 objects located in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (13 high- and two low-mass X-ray binaries and two X-ray pulsars), three Galactic cataclysmic variables, one ultraluminous X-ray source (M82 X-1) and one blended source (SWIFT J1105.7+5854). The nature of 25 sources remains unknown, so that the survey's identification is currently complete at 83 per cent. We have constructed AGN number–flux relations (log N–log S) and calculated AGN number densities in the local Universe for the entire survey and for each of the three extragalactic fields.