TY - JOUR
T1 - Finding persistent sources with the BeppoSAX/Wide Field Camera
T2 - An in-depth analysis
AU - Capitanio, F.
AU - Bird, A. J.
AU - Fiocchi, M.
AU - Scaringi, S.
AU - Ubertini, P.
PY - 2011/7
Y1 - 2011/7
N2 - During the operational life of the Italian/Dutch X-ray satellite (1996-2002), BeppoSAX, its two Wide Field Cameras (WFCs) performed observations that covered the full sky at different epochs. Although the majority of analysis performed on BeppoSAX WFC data concentrated on the detection of transient sources, we have now applied the same techniques developed for the INTEGRAL/IBIS survey to produce the same work with the BeppoSAX WFC data. This work represents the first unbiased source list compilation produced from the overall WFC data set optimized for faint persistent source detection. This approach recovered 182 more sources compared to the previous WFC catalog reported in Verrecchia etal. The catalog contains 404 sources detected between 3 and 17keV, 10 of which are yet to be seen by the new generation of telescopes.
AB - During the operational life of the Italian/Dutch X-ray satellite (1996-2002), BeppoSAX, its two Wide Field Cameras (WFCs) performed observations that covered the full sky at different epochs. Although the majority of analysis performed on BeppoSAX WFC data concentrated on the detection of transient sources, we have now applied the same techniques developed for the INTEGRAL/IBIS survey to produce the same work with the BeppoSAX WFC data. This work represents the first unbiased source list compilation produced from the overall WFC data set optimized for faint persistent source detection. This approach recovered 182 more sources compared to the previous WFC catalog reported in Verrecchia etal. The catalog contains 404 sources detected between 3 and 17keV, 10 of which are yet to be seen by the new generation of telescopes.
KW - X-rays: general
KW - catalogs
KW - methods: data analysis
KW - surveys
KW - techniques: image processing
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U2 - 10.1088/0067-0049/195/1/9
DO - 10.1088/0067-0049/195/1/9
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79960465096
SN - 0067-0049
VL - 195
JO - Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series
JF - Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series
IS - 1
M1 - 9
ER -