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Mauricio El\\'ias Ch\\'avez
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2021
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Physics
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In this work we present the results of the survey carried out on one of the deepest X-ray fields observed by the XMM-Newton satellite. The 1.75 Ms Ultra Narrow Deep Field (XMM175UNDF) survey is made by 13 observations taken over 2 years with a total exposure time of 1.75 Ms (1.372 Ms after flare-filtered) in a field of $30 times 30 $ centered around the blazar 1ES 1553+113. We stacked the 13 observations reaching flux limits of $4.03 times 10^{-16} $, $1.3 times 10^{-15}$, and $9.8 times 10^{-16}, erg, s^{-1}, cm^{-2}$ in the soft $(0.2 - 2, mathrm{keV})$, hard $(2 - 12, mathrm{keV})$, and full $(0.2 - 12, mathrm{keV})$ bands, respectively. Using a conservative threshold of Maximum Likelihood significance of $ML geq 6$, corresponding to $3sigma$, we detected 301 point-sources for which we derived positions, fluxes in different bands, and hardness ratios. Thanks to an optical follow-up carried out using the 10.4m the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) on the same field in the $ugriz$ bands, combined with WISE/2MASS IR data; we identified 244 optical/IR counterpart candidates for our X-ray sources and estimated their X-ray luminosities, redshift distribution, X-ray/optical $-$ X-ray/IR flux ratios, and absolute magnitudes. Finally, we divided this subsample in 40 non-active sources and 204 AGNs, of which 139 are classified as Seyfert galaxies and 41 as Quasars.
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