X-ray spectral properties of AGN in the Chandra Deep Field South

Details X-ray spectral properties of AGN in the Chandra Deep Field South X-ray spectral properties of AGN in the Chandra Deep Field South

2006-02-06

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0602127v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

86 pages, A&A accepted, full version available at http://adlibitum.oat.ts.astro.it/tozzi/spectral_CDFS/paper_1Mspec.ps

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20042592

We present a detailed X-ray spectral analysis of the sources in the 1Ms catalog of the Chandra Deep Field South (CDFS) taking advantage of optical spectroscopy and photometric redshifts for 321 sources. As a default spectral model, we adopt a power law with slope Gamma with an intrinsic redshifted absorption N_H, a fixed Galactic absorption and an unresolved Fe emission line. For 82 X-ray bright sources, we perform the X-ray spectral analysis leaving both Gamma and N_H free. The weighted mean value is ~ 1.75+-0.02, with an intrinsic dispersion of sigma~0.30. We do not find hints of a correlation between Gamma and the N_H. We detect the presence of a scattered component at soft energies in 8 sources, and a pure reflection spectrum, typical of Compton-thick AGN, in 14 sources (Compton-thick AGN candidates). The intrinsic N_H distribution shows a lognormal shape, peaking around log(N_H)~23.1 and with sigma~1.1. We find that the fraction of absorbed sources (with N_H>10^{22} cm^{-2}) in the sample is constant (at the level of about 75%) or moderately increasing with redshift. Finally, we compare the optical classification to the X-ray spectral properties, confirming that the correspondence of unabsorbed (absorbed) X-ray sources to optical Type I (Type II) AGN is accurate for at least 80% of the sources with spectral identification (1/3 of the total X-ray sample).

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