A multifrequency characterization of the extragalactic hard X-ray sky. Presenting the second release of the Turin-SyCAT

Astronomy & AstrophysicsA&A 670, A171 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202243848 © The Authors 2023 A multifrequency characterization of the extragalactic hard X-ray sky Presenting the second release of the Turin-SyCAT⋆ M. Kosiba1,2, H. A. Peña-Herazo3, F. Massaro1,4,5, N. Masetti6,7, A. Paggi1,3,4, V. Chavushyan8, E. Bottacini9,10, and N. Werner2 1 Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Torino, via Pietro Giuria 1, 10125 Torino, Italy e-mail: matej.kosiba@gmail.com 2 Department of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotláˇrská 2, Brno, 611 37, Czech Republic e-mail: 436669@mail.muni.cz 3 East Asian Observatory, 660 North A’oh¯ok¯u Place, Hilo, HI 96720, USA 4 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Torino, 10125 Torino, Italy 5 INAF–Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino, via Osservatorio 20, 10025 Pino Torinese, Italy 6 INAF – Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio, via Piero Gobetti 101, 40129 Bologna, Italy 7 Departamento de Ciencias Físicas, Universidad Andrés Bello, Fernández Concha 700, Las Condes, Santiago, Chile 8 Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, Apartado Postal 51-216, 72000 Puebla, Mexico 9 Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia G. Galilei, Univeristà di Padova, Padova, Italy 10 Eureka Scientific, 2452 Delmer Street Suite 100, Oakland, CA 94602-3017, USA Received 22 April 2022 / Accepted 8 August 2022 ABSTRACT Context. Nowadays, we know that the origin of the cosmic X-ray background (CXB) is mainly due to the integrated emission of active galactic nuclei. Therefore, in order to obtain a precise estimate of the contribution of different source classes to the CXB, it is crucial to achieve full characterization of the hard-X ray sky. Aims. We present a multifrequency analysis of all sources listed in the third release of the Palermo Swift-BAT hard X-ray catalog (3PBC) with the goal of (i) identifying and classifying the largest number of sources adopting multifrequency criteria, with particular emphasis on extragalactic populations and (ii) extracting sources belonging to the class of Seyfert galaxies to present here the release of the second version of the Turin-SyCAT. Methods. We outline a classification scheme based on radio, infrared (IR), and optical criteria that allows us to distinguish between unidentified and unclassified hard X-ray sources, as well as to classify those sources belonging to the Galactic and the extragalactic populations. Results. Our revised version of the 3PBC lists 1176 classified, 820 extragalactic, and 356 Galactic sources, as well as 199 unclassified and 218 unidentified sources. According to our analysis, the hard X-ray sky is mainly populated by Seyfert galaxies and blazars. For the blazar population, we report trends between the hard X-ray and the gamma-ray emissions based on the fact that a large fraction of them also have a counterpart detected by the Fermi satellite. These trends are all in agreement with the expectations of inverse Compton models which are widely adopted to explain the blazar broadband emission. For the Seyfert galaxies, we present the second version of the Turin-SyCAT, including a total of 633 Seyfert galaxies, with 282 new sources corresponding to an increase of ∼80% with respect to the previous release. Comparing the hard X-ray and the infrared emissions of Seyfert galaxies, we confirm that there is no clear difference between the flux distribution of the infrared-to-hard X-ray flux ratio of Seyfert galaxies Type 1 and Type 2. However, there is a significant trend between the mid-IR flux and hard X-ray flux, confirming previous statistical results in the literature.