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Table 5.

Expected number of Compton thick AGN (i.e., sources having column density NH > 1024 cm−2) in each of the planned AXIS and ATHENA surveys.

AXIS
ATHENA
Whole sample
> 100 net counts
Whole sample
> 100 net counts
Survey All
z > 3
All z > 3 All
z > 3
All z > 3
nsrc Llim nsrc Llim nsrc nsrc nsrc Llim nsrc Llim nsrc nsrc
Deep 850 37.0 62 41.6 452 31 4476 38.1 218 43.8 2821 131
Intermediate 4396 37.8 268 42.3 335 10
Wide 6113 38.9 172 44.5 69 0 7236 38.5 236 44.2 594 0

Notes. We report both the overall results and the number of sources for which more than 100 0.5–7 keV net counts are detected, thus making possible a reliable X-ray spectral analysis. The logarithm of the 0.5–2 keV luminosity is computed using the spectral model described in Sect. 5.3 and a 0.5–2 keV flux corresponding to the one at which 20% of the survey area is covered (see Table 2).

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