Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
May 2003
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003aipc..666..205b&link_type=abstract
THE EMERGENCE OF COSMIC STRUCTURE: Thirteenth Astrophysics Conference. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 666, pp. 205-213 (200
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Galactic Nuclei, Circumnuclear Matter, And Bulges, X-Ray, X-Ray Sources, X-Ray Bursts
Scientific paper
The high angular resolution and sensitivity of the Chandra X-ray Observatory has yielded large numbers of faint X-ray sources with measured redshifts in the soft (0.5 - 2 keV) and hard (2 - 8 keV) energy bands. Many of these sources show few obvious optical signatures of active galactic nuclei (AGN). We use Chandra observations of the Hubble Deep Field-North region, together with other shallower surveys, to show that the number density of sources in the 1042 ergs s-1 to 1044 ergs s-1 luminosity range is rising, or is at least constant, with decreasing redshift. Broad-line AGN are the dominant population at higher luminosities, and these sources show the well-known rapid positive evolution with increasing redshift to z ~ 3. We argue that the dominant supermassive black hole formation has occurred at recent times in objects with low accretion mass flow rates rather than at earlier times in more X-ray luminous objects with high accretion mass flow rates. We also argue that there are too few moderate luminosity AGN at z = 5 - 6.5 to ionize the intergalactic medium.
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