The HELLAS2XMM survey. VII. The hard X-ray luminosity function of AGN up to z=4: more absorbed AGN at low luminosities and high redshifts

Details The HELLAS2XMM survey. VII. The hard X-ray luminosity function of AGN up to z=4: more absorbed AGN at low luminosities and high redshifts The HELLAS2XMM survey. VII. The hard X-ray luminosity function of AGN up to z=4: more absorbed AGN at low luminosities and high redshifts

2005-09-05

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0509081v1

Astrophys.J.635:864,2005

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

16 pages, 20 figures. Scheduled on ApJ, Vol. 635, 2005 December 20

Scientific paper

10.1086/497586

We have determined the cosmological evolution of the density of AGN and of their Nh distribution as a function of the un-absorbed 2-10 keV luminosity up to redshift 4. We used the HELLAS2XMM sample combined with other published catalogs, yielding a total of 508 AGN. Our best fit is obtained with a luminosity-dependent density evolution (LDDE) model where low luminosity (Lx~10^43 erg s^-1) AGN peak at z~0.7, while high luminosity AGN (Lx>10^45 erg s^-1) peak at z~2.0. A pure luminosity evolution model (PLE) can instead be rejected. There is evidence that the fraction of absorbed (Nh>10^22 cm^-2) AGN decreases with the intrinsic X-ray luminosity, and increases with the redshift. Our best fit solution provides a good fit to the observed counts, the cosmic X-ray background, and to the observed fraction of absorbed AGN as a function of the flux in the 10^-1510^44 erg s^-1) AGN have a density of 267 deg^-2 at fluxes S(2-10)>10^-15 erg s^-1 cm^-2. Using these results, we estimate a density of supermassive black holes in the local Universe of 3.2 (h^2_70) x 10^5 M_sol Mpc^-3, which is consistent with the recent measurements of the black hole mass function in the local galaxies.

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