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To choose the best strategy for conducting a deep extragalactic survey with the ART-XC X-ray telescope onboard the Spectrum–Röntgen–Gamma (SRG) observatory and to estimate the expected results, we have simulated the observations of a 1.1° × 1.1° field in the 5–11 and 8–24 keV energy bands. For this purpose, we have constructed a model of the active galactic nuclei (AGN) population that reflects the properties of the X-ray emission from such objects. The photons that “arrived” from these sources were passed through a numerical model of the telescope, while the resulting data were processed with the standard ART-XC data processing pipeline. We show that several hundred AGNs at redshifts up to z ≈ 3 will be detected in such a survey over 1.2 Ms of observations with the expected charged particle background levels. Among them there will be heavily obscured AGNs, which will allow a more accurate estimate of the fraction of such objects in the total population to be made. Source confusion is expected at fluxes below 2 × 10−14 erg s−1 cm−2 (5–11 keV). Since this value can exceed the source detection threshold in a deep survey at low particle background levels, it may turn out to be more interesting to conduct a survey of larger area (several square degrees) but smaller depth, obtaining a sample of approximately four hundred bright AGNs as a result.
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Original Russian Text © I.A. Mereminskiy, E.V. Filippova, R.A. Burenin, S.Yu. Sazonov, M.N. Pavlinsky, A.Yu. Tkachenko, I.Yu. Lapshov, A.E. Shtykovskiy, R.A. Krivonos, 2018, published in Pis’ma v Astronomicheskii Zhurnal, 2018, Vol. 44, No. 2, pp. 87–101.
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Mereminskiy, I.A., Filippova, E.V., Burenin, R.A. et al. A Deep Extragalactic Survey with the ART-XC Telescope of the Spectrum-RG Observatory: Simulations and Expected Results. Astron. Lett. 44, 67–80 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063773718020044
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