Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-06-26
Astron.Astrophys.409:79-90,2003
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
v2, minor changes, A&A in press
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20031031
We present results from the photometric and spectroscopic identification of 122 X-ray sources recently discovered by XMM-Newton in the 2-10 keV band (the HELLAS2XMM 1dF sample). Their flux cover the range 8E-15-4E-13 cgs and the total area surveyed is 0.9 deg2. About 20% of the hard X-ray selected sources have an X-ray to optical flux ratio (X/O) ten times or more higher than that of optically selected AGN. Unlike the faint sources found in the ultra-deep Chandra and XMM-Newton surveys, which reach X-ray (and optical) fluxes more than one order of magnitude lower than the HELLAS2XMM survey sources, many of the extreme X/O sources in our sample have R<=25 and are therefore accessible to optical spectroscopy. We report the identification of 13 sources with X/O>10: 8 are narrow line QSO (i.e. QSO2), four are broad line QSO. We use a combined sample of 317 hard X-ray selected sources (HELLAS2XMM 1dF, CDFN 1Msec, SSA13 and Lockman Hole flux limited samples), 221 with measured z, to evaluate the cosmological evolution of the hard X-ray source's number and luminosity densities. Looking backward in time, the low luminosity sources (logL(2-10keV) = 43-44 erg/s) increase in number at a rate different than the high luminosity sources (logL(2-10keV)>44.5 erg/s), reaching a maximum around z=1 and then levelling off beyond z=2. This translates into an accretion driven luminosity density which is dominated by sources with logL(2-10keV) < 44.5 erg/s up to at least z=1, while the contribution of the same sources and of those with logL(2-10keV)>44.5 erg/s appear to be comparable between z=2 and 4.
Baldi Alessandro
Brusa Marcella
Carangelo Nicoletta
Ciliegi Paolo
Cocchia Filomena
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