Constraints on the distribution of absorption in the X-ray selected AGN population found in the 13H XMM-Newton/Chandra deep field

Details Constraints on the distribution of absorption in the X-ray selected AGN population found in the 13H XMM-Newton/Chandra deep field Constraints on the distribution of absorption in the X-ray selected AGN population found in the 13H XMM-Newton/Chandra deep field

2005-04-22

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0504503v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 360 (2005) 1426-1438

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

13 pages, 9 figures, Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09136.x

We present an analysis of the X-ray properties of sources detected in the 13H XMM-Newton deep (200ks) field. In order to constrain the absorbed AGN population, we use extensive Monte Carlo simulations to directly compare the X-ray colours of observed sources with those predicted by several model distributions. We have tested the simplest form of the AGN unified scheme, whereby the intrinsic XLF of absorbed AGN is set to be the same as that of their unabsorbed brethren, coupled with various model distributions of absorption. The best fitting of these models sets the fraction of AGN with absorbing column NH, proportional to (logNH)^8. We have also tested two extensions to the unified scheme: an evolving absorption scenario, and a luminosity dependent model distribution. Both of these provide poorer matches to the observed X-ray colour distributions than the best fitting simple unified model. We find that a luminosity dependent density evolution XLF reproduces poorly the 0.5-2 keV source counts seen in the 13H field. Field to field variations could be the cause of this disparity. Computing the simulated X-ray colours with a simple absorbed power-law + reflection spectral model is found to over-predict, by a factor of two, the fraction of hard sources that are completely absorbed below 0.5 keV, implying that an additional source of soft-band flux must be present for a number of the absorbed sources. Finally, we show that around 40% of the 13H sample are expected to be AGN with NH>10^22 cm^-2.

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