SUMMARY OF SEQUENCE NUMBER 900012

SUMMARY OF SEQUENCE NUMBER 900012

Title: AXAF OBSERVATION OF FAINT HARD X-RAY SOURCES DISCOVERED WITH ASCA

Observer: TAKAHASHI

Subject Category: Diffuse Emission and Surveys

Seq: 900012 ObsId: 00940

Long-term Plan bin: no LTS bin

ABSTRACT

The origin of the Cosmic X-ray background (CXB) has been one of the key issues of X-ray astronomy. We propose AXAF observations of 15 selected hard X-ray sources discovered by the serendipitous source survey project with ASCA. These sources have 2-10 keV fluxes below 5 x 10^(-13) erg/cm2/s. ASCA 0.7-2/2-10 keV counting rates that require them to either have power law photon indecies flatter than 1.0, or if they have intrinsic slopes of 1.7, have column density greater than Nh = 2 x 10^22/cm^2. For the determination of the nature of the 2-10 keV source population excellent X-ray positions are absolutely vital to obtain reliable identifications, in particular if one does not know a priori the nature of the optical objects.

TARGET SUMMARY

TARGET NAME RADEC TIME SI GRAT TYPE TC ROLL PRE PHASE MULTI PRI
AX J1951+5609
297.753070
56.160480
6.000000
ACIS-I
NONE
GO
no
no
no
no
no
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(NOTE: RASS images currently only available for targets LTS scheduled on or after Apr-09-2000)

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