Demography of obscured and unobscured AGN: prospects for a Wide Field X-ray Telescope

2010/10/28 by R. Gilli, P. Tozzi, Gilli, R. +17
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) #FOS: Physical sciences #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #Particle Detector Development and Performance #astro-ph.CO

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1010.6024

Proceedings of "The Wide Field X-ray Telescope Workshop", held in Bologna, Italy, Nov. 25-26 2009. To appear in Memorie della Societa' Astronomica Italiana 2010 (arXiv:1010.5889)

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Abstract

We discuss some of the main open issues in the evolution of Active Galactic Nuclei which can be solved by the sensitive, wide area surveys to be performed by the proposed Wide Field X-ray Telescope mission.

Citations

• Proceedings of the "Wide Field X-ray Telescope" workshop

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