The cosmic X-ray background and the population of the most heavily obscured AGNs

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 666, Issue 1 I, 2007, Pages 86-95

  Frontera, Filippo ^a,b   Orlandini, Mauro ^a   Landi, Raffaella ^a   Comastri, Andrea ^c   Fiore, Fabrizio ^d   Setti, Giancarlo ^e,f   Amati, Lorenzo ^a   Costa, Enrico ^g   Masetti, Nicola ^a   Palazzi, Eliana ^a  

^a OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^c INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI ROMA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^f INAF ISTITUTO DI RADIOASTRONOMIA   (Italy)

^g INAF IASF ROMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cosmology: observations; Diffuse radiation; Galaxies: active; X rays: diffuse background; X rays: general

Indexed keywords

EID: 35348866237     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/519985     Document Type: Article

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