Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-06-15
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
To appear in MNRAS, 9 pages, 8 figures
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.08128.x
We explore the X-ray properties of optically selected QSOs spectroscopically identified in the course of the 2dF QSO survey (2QZ). Our main goal is to expand to higher redshifts previous findings suggesting the presence of a fraction of X-ray obscured sources among the low redshift optically selected broad line AGN population. The X-ray data are from the wide field (~2.5 sq. deg), shallow $[f(0.5 - 8 keV) ~10^-14 egs s^-1 cm^-2 XMM-Newton/2dF survey. A total of 96 2QZ QSOs overlap with the area covered by our X-ray survey. 66 of them have X-ray counterparts while 30 remain undetected in our X-ray survey. The 66 X-ray detected QSOs have a mean photon index of ~2 suggesting little or no X-ray obscuration for most of these sources. Individual X-ray spectral fittings reveal only 1 source (intrinsic Lx(0.5-8 keV) ~ 10^44 erg s^-1 at z=0.82) that is likely to be obscured (NH~10^23 cm^-2) at the 90% confidence level. Additionally, there are 9 2QZ sources that show evidence for moderate absorption (mean observed NH of ~10^21 cm^-2). For the 30 QSOs that remain undetected in our X-ray survey we use stacking analysis to estimate a mean hardness ratio of -0.59 +/- 0.11 suggesting that the bulk of this population has NH consistent with the Galactic value. However, we cannot exclude the possibility that some of these sources have enhanced photoelectric absorption that is not revealed in the mean stacked spectrum. We estimate a lower limit to the fraction of optically selected QSO with X-ray absorption of about 10% (10 out of 96).
Akylas Athanassios
Georgakakis Antonis
Georgantopoulos Ioannis
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