A rich bounty of AGN in the 9 square degree Bootes survey: high-z obscured AGN and large-scale structure

Details A rich bounty of AGN in the 9 square degree Bootes survey: high-z obscured AGN and large-scale structure A rich bounty of AGN in the 9 square degree Bootes survey: high-z obscured AGN and large-scale structure

2006-11-21

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0611654v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, 3 figures, to appear in the proceedings of "Cosmic Frontiers", Durham, UK, 31 July - 4 August 2006, ASP Conference Se

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We use observations from the 9 square degree multiwavelength survey in Bootes to identify hundreds of obscured active galactic nuclei (AGN) with high redshifts (z > 0.7), luminosities (L_bol > 10^45 ergs/s), and moderate obscuring columns (N_H > 10^22 cm^-2), and to measure the clustering properties of X-ray AGN at z > 1. In the Bootes region, shallow (5 ks) Chandra X-ray observations have detected ~4,000 X-ray sources, and the same region has been mapped with deep optical imaging and by Spitzer IRAC, which detects ~300,000 point sources, of which ~30,000 have detections in all four IRAC bands, for which we can select AGN on the basis of their mid-IR colors. With the MMT/Hectospec we have obtained modest resolution optical spectra for about half the X-ray sources (out to z > 3) and ~20,000 galaxies (out to z = 0.7). With this multiwavelength data we select >400 AGN per square degree (compared to 12 per square degree from SDSS). Among a sample of IRAC-selected AGN we identify 641 candidate obscured objects based on their R band and IRAC luminosities. We use X-ray stacking techniques to verify that they are obscured AGN and measure their absorbing column densities. We also measure the three-dimensional two-point correlation function for X-ray selected AGN.

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