An XMM-Newton survey of Extremely Red Objects

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We present preliminary results of a 25 ks XMM-Newton observation of the largest sample of Extremely Red Objects (EROs) available to date (about 450 sources), selected in a contiguous area of 700 arcmin^2 (Daddi et al. 2000). Five of the 36 hard X-ray selected sources brighter than 7x10^{-15} erg cm^{-2} s^{-1} in the 2-10 keV band are associated with EROs. All of the X-ray detected EROs show rather extreme X-ray-to-optical flux ratios, suggesting the presence of highly obscured AGN activity.
4 pages, 3 figures. In X-ray Spectroscopy of AGN with Chandra and XMM-Newton, ed. Th. Boller, S. Komossa, S. Kahn, H. Kunieda (MPE Press, Garching)

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