Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2011-10-14
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
13 pages, ApJ, in press. This accepted version includes a new figure on the star formation history determined from the X-ray d
Scientific paper
We use the new 4 Ms exposure of the CDF-S field obtained with the Chandra X-ray satellite to investigate the properties of the faintest X-ray sources over a wide range of redshifts. We use an optimized averaging procedure to investigate the weighted mean X-ray fluxes of optically selected sources in the CDF-S over the redshift range z=0-8 and down to 0.5-2 keV fluxes as low as 5e-19 erg/cm^2/s. None of the samples of sources at high redshifts (z>5) show any significant flux, and at z=6.5 we place an upper limit on the X-ray luminosity of 4e41 erg/s in the rest-frame 3.75-15 keV band for the sample of Bouwens et al. (2006). This is consistent with any X-ray production in the galaxies being solely due to star formation. At lower redshifts we find significant weighted mean X-ray fluxes in many samples of sources over the redshift range z=0-4. We use these to argue that (1) the relation between star formation and X-ray production remains invariant over this redshift range, (2) X-ray sources below the direct detection threshold in the CDF-S are primarily star-forming, and (3) there is full consistency between UV and X-ray estimations of the star formation history.
Barger Amy. J.
Cowie Lennox L.
Hasinger Guenter
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