Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-03-18
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
16 pages, 5 figures, accepted by New Astronomy
Scientific paper
10.1016/S1384-1076(00)00017-8
We report optical spectroscopic identifications of 10 hard (2-10 keV) X-ray selected sources discovered by Chandra. The X-ray flux of the sources ranges between 1.5 and 25 x 10-14 cgs, the lower value being 3 times fainter than in previous BeppoSAX and ASCA surveys. Their R band magnitudes are in the range 12.8-22. Six of the Chandra sources are broad line quasars with redshifts between 0.42 and 1.19, while the optical identification of the remaining four is quite varied: two are X-ray obscured, emission line AGN at z=0.272 and z=0.683, one is a starburst galaxy at z=0.016 and one, most unusually, is an apparently normal galaxy at z=0.158. These findings confirm and extend down to fainter X-ray fluxes the BeppoSAX results, in providing samples with a wide range of X-ray and optical properties. The ratio between the soft X-ray and the optical luminosity of the z=0.158 galaxy is a factor at least 30 higher than that of normal galaxies, and similar to those of AGN. The high X-ray luminosity and the lack of optical emission lines suggest an AGN in which either continuum beaming dominates, or emission lines are obscured or not efficiently produced.
Cappi Massimo
Comastri Andrea
Elvis Martin
Fiore Fabrizio
La Franca Fabio
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