Heavily obscured AGN with SIMBOL-X
R. Della Ceca, A. Caccianiga, and P. Severgnini
TL;DR
This paper estimates the number of heavily obscured Compton Thick AGNs that future SIMBOL-X X-ray surveys are expected to detect, based on an intrinsic luminosity function derived from existing samples.
Contribution
It introduces a method to predict the detection rate of Compton Thick AGNs in upcoming X-ray surveys using a derived luminosity function.
Findings
Estimated the number of Compton Thick AGNs detectable by SIMBOL-X
Compared optically selected and X-ray selected AGN samples
Derived an intrinsic 2-10 keV luminosity function for Compton Thick AGNs
Abstract
By comparing an optically selected sample of narrow lines AGN with an X-ray selected sample of AGN we have recently derived an estimate of the intrinsic (i.e. before absorption) 2-10 keV luminosity function (XLF) of Compton Thick AGNs. We will use this XLF to derive the number of Compton Thick AGN that will be found in the SIMBOL-X survey(s).
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