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List of Figures
1.1 The electromagnetic window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.2 Spectrum of the extragalactic CXB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.3 Schematic spectrum of a Type-1 AGN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
1.4 Schematic diagram of the unified model of AGN . . . . . . . . . . 20
1.5 Light path on a Wolter-1 X-ray telescope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
1.6 Payload of the XMM-Newton observatory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
1.7 Lightpath of the XMM-Newton telescopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
2.1 Examples of identified XMS sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
3.1 Sky area of the AXIS survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
3.2 N(>S) 0.5-2 keV and 2-10 keV best fits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
3.3 N(>S) 0.5-4.5 keV and 4.5-7.5 keV best fits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
3.4 dN(S)/dSdΩ and best fit ratio in Soft and hard bands . . . . . . . 67
3.5 dN(S)/dSdΩ and best fit ratio in XID and Ultrahard bands . . . . 68
3.6 N(>S) for two HR selected Soft subsamples . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
3.7 Relative contribution to the total CXB intensity . . . . . . . . . . . 76
4.1 w(θ) of AXIS in the 0.5-2 keV and 2-10 keV bands . . . . . . . . . 88
4.2 w(θ) of AXIS in the 0.5-4.5 keV and 4.5-7.5 keV bands . . . . . . . 89
4.3 1 − P µ (N θ ) versus θ for the Soft and Hard samples . . . . . . . . . 93
4.4 1 − P µ (N θ ) versus θ for the XID and Ultrahard samples . . . . . . 94
4.5 Correlation tests for a Soft/3 sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
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