The PalermoSwift-BAT hard X-ray catalogue: II. Results after 39 months of sky survey

By G. Cusumano, V. Parola, A. Segreto, V. Mangano, C. Ferrigno, A. Maselli, P. Romano, T. Mineo, B. Sbarufatti, S. Campana and 5 more. 2009

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Aims. We present the Palermo Swift-BAT hard X-ray catalogue obtained from the analysis of data acquired during the first 39 months of the Swift mission. Methods. We developed a dedicated software to perform the data reduction, mosaicking, and source detection of the BAT survey data. We analyzed the BAT dataset in three energy bands (14-150 keV, 14-30 keV, 14-70 keV), obtaining a list of 962 detections above a significance threshold of 4.8 standard deviations. The identification of the source counterparts was pursued using three strategies: cross-correlation with published hard X-ray catalogues, analysis of field observations of soft X-ray instruments, and cross-correlation with SIMBAD databases. Results. The survey covers 90%-of the sky down to a flux limit of 2.5 x 10-11 erg cm -2 s -1 and 50% of the sky down to a flux limit of 1.8 × 10- 11 erg cm -2 s -1 in the 14-150 keV band. We derived a catalogue of 754 identified sources, of which ~69% are extragalactic, ~27% are Galactic objects, and ~4% are already known X-ray or gamma ray emitters, whose nature has yet to be determined. The integrated flux of the extragalactic sample is ~1% of the cosmic X-ray background in the 14-150 keV range.

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• The subarcsecond mid-infrared view of local active galactic nuclei – II. The mid-infrared–X-ray correlation (2015, methodology): “2; (10) average observed 14-195 keV luminosity from Swift/BAT by combining the data of the 54 and 70 month source catalogues (Cusumano et al. 2010; Baumgartner et al. 2013); (11) references for the 2-10 keV luminosities and column densities: 1: Massaro et al. (2012); 2: Mingo et al. (2014); 3:…”
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• FROM THE BLAZAR SEQUENCE TO THE BLAZAR ENVELOPE: REVISITING THE RELATIVISTIC JET DICHOTOMY IN RADIO-LOUD ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI (2011, methodology): “The two BLRG have been detected with Swift and BeppoSAX in the hard X-ray (Grandi et al. 2006; Cusumano et al. 2010).”
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• Properties of flat-spectrum radio-loud Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies (2014, background): “Indeed, by looking at the two available catalogs built on BAT data, we found only one detection of J0324+3410 in both the 70-month survey of theSwift/BAT team (Baumgartner et al. 2013) and the Palermo 54-month catalog (Cusumano et al. 2010).”
• Simultaneous Planck, Swift, and Fermi observations of X-ray and γ-ray selected blazars (2011, methodology): “We defined our hard X-ray flux-limited sample starting from the Swift-BAT 54 month source catalog5 (Cusumano et al. 2010), and selecting all the sources identified with blazars with X-ray flux > 10−11 erg cm−2 s−1 in the 15–150 keV energy band.”
• The 105-Month Swift-BAT All-sky Hard X-Ray Survey (2018, methodology): “The Palermo Swift -BAT hard X-ray catalog identified 1286 hard X-ray sources in their latest publication (Cusumano et al. 2010b) using data acquired in the 54 months of the Swift -BAT operation.”
• High-mass X-ray binaries in the Milky Way (2013, background): “The source is also classified as an hard X-ray transient in the INTEGRAL /ISGRI and Swift /BAT catalogues (Bird et al., 2010b; Cusumano et al., 2010).”
• THREE-YEAR SWIFT–BAT SURVEY OF ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI: RECONCILING THEORY AND OBSERVATIONS? (2010, unknown): “0+3035 355.500 30.600 1.08 ± 0.19 5.7 UGC 12741 Sy2 0.02 1.64+0.33−0.30 23.7 (2) Notes. a The optical classification comes mainly from Tueller et al. (2008), Winter et al. (2009a), Parisi et al. (2009), Cusumano et al. (2010), SIMBAD, and NED.”
• The 5th edition of the Roma-BZCAT. A short presentation (2015, methodology): “…– the 0.1–2.4 keV X-ray flux from ROSAT archive or Swift-XRT catalogues, in other cases as specified by notes; – hard X-ray flux (15–150 keV) from Palermo BAT Catalogue (Cusumano et al. 2010), in other cases as specified by notes; – γ-ray flux from 1FGL or 2FGL catalogues; – the redshift.”