Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-12-21
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
14 pages, 15 figures, to appear in A&A
Scientific paper
We present a study of the X-ray to optical properties of a sample of 545 X-ray selected Type 1 AGN, from the XMM-COSMOS survey, over a wide range of redshifts ($0.04<\z<4.25$) and X-ray luminosities ($40.6 \leq \Log \Lhard \leq 45.3$). About 60% of them are spectroscopically identified Type 1 AGN, while the others have a reliable photometric redshift and are classified as Type 1 AGN on the basis of their multi-band Spectral Energy Distributions. We discuss the relationship between UV and X-ray luminosity, as parameterized by the $\alphaox$ spectral slope, and its dependence on redshift and luminosity. We compare our findings with previous investigations of optically selected broad-line AGN (mostly from SDSS). A highly significant correlation between $\alphaox$ and $\lo$ is found, in agreement with previous investigations of optically selected samples. We calculate bolometric corrections, $\kbol$, for the whole sample using hard X-ray luminosities ($\Lhard$), and the Eddington ratios for a subsample of 150 objects for which black hole mass estimates are available. We confirm the trend of increasing bolometric correction with increasing Eddington ratio as proposed in previous works. A tight correlation is found between $\alphaox$ and $\kbol$, which can be used to estimate accurate bolometric corrections using only optical and X-ray data. We find a significant correlation between $\alphaox$ and Eddington ratio, in which $\alphaox$ increases for increasing Eddington ratios.
Bolzonella Micol
Bongiorno Angela
Brusa Marcella
Cappelluti Nico
Civano Francesca
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