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Imaging Large Scale Structure in the X-ray SkyWe present the first results of a wide solid angle, moderately deep Chandra survey of the Lockman Hole North West Region. Our 9 ACIS-I fields cover an effective solid angle of 0.33 sq deg and reach a depth of 3 x 10(exp -16) erg/sq cm/s in the 0.4-2 keV band, and 3 x 10(exp -15) erg/sq cm/s in the 2-8 keV band. The best fit logN-logS for the entire field, the largest contiguous Chandra field yet observed, matches well onto that of the Chandra Deep Field North. This indicates that over 90% of the 2-8 keV X-ray background is resolved into point sources. We show that the full range of the 'cosmic variance' previously seen in different Chandra fields can be reproduced in a small region of the sky. The count-in-cells analysis shows that the 2-10 keV band sources have much larger angular correlation scale than that of the 0.4-2 keV band. We found the large difference is likely to be caused by a stronger spatial correlation in the hard band sources rather than the redshift effect.
Document ID
20030032296
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Preprint (Draft being sent to journal)
Authors
Yang, Y.
(Maryland Univ. College Park, MD, United States)
Mushotzky, R. F.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Barger, A. J.
(Wisconsin Univ. Madison, WI, United States)
Cowie, L. L.
(Hawaii Univ. Honolulu, HI, United States)
Sanders, D. B.
(Hawaii Univ. Honolulu, HI, United States)
Steefen, A. T.
(Wisconsin Univ. Madison, WI, United States)
Date Acquired
August 21, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2003
Subject Category
Astrophysics
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NSF AST-0084816
CONTRACT_GRANT: NSF AST-0084847
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Public
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