The ROSAT Deep Survey: VI. X-ray sources and Optical identifications of the Ultra Deep Survey

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2001-03-22

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0103368v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

26 pages, 8 figures (finding charts and spectra in JPEG), accepted for publication by A & A

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20010419

We describe in this paper the ROSAT Ultra Deep Survey (UDS), an extension of the ROSAT Deep Survey (RDS) in the Lockman Hole. The UDS reaches a flux level of 1.2 x 10E-15 erg/cm2/s in 0.5-2.0 keV energy band, a level ~4.6 times fainter than the RDS. We present nearly complete spectroscopic identifications (90%) of the sample of 94 X-ray sources based on low-resolution Keck spectra. The majority of the sources (57) are broad emission line AGNs (type I), whereas a further 13 AGNs show only narrow emission lines or broad Balmer emission lines with a large Balmer decrement (type II AGNs) indicating significant optical absorption. The second most abundant class of objects (10) are groups and clusters of galaxies (~11%). Further we found five galactic stars and one ''normal'' emission line galaxy. Eight X-ray sources remain spectroscopically unidentified. The photometric redshift determination indicates in three out of the eight sources the presence of an obscured AGN in the range of 1.2 < z < 2.7. These objects could belong to the long-sought population of type 2 QSOs, which are predicted by the AGN synthesis models of the X-ray background. Finally, we discuss the optical and soft X-ray properties of the type I AGN, type II AGN, and groups and clusters of galaxies, and the implications to the X-ray backround.

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