An Optical Catalog of the Chandra Large Area Synoptic X-ray Survey Sources

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics

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35 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal

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10.1086/423998

We present photometric and spectroscopic observations of the X-ray sources detected in the wide-area, moderately deep Chandra Large Area Synoptic X-ray Survey of the Lockman Hole-Northwest field. We have B, V, R, I, and z' photometry for 521 (99%) of the 525 sources in the X-ray catalog and spectroscopic redshifts for 271 (52%), including 20 stars. We do not find evidence for redshift groupings of the X-ray sources, like those found in the Chandra Deep Field surveys, because of the larger solid angle covered by this survey. We separate the X-ray sources by optical spectral type and examine the colors, apparent and absolute magnitudes, and redshift distributions for the broad-line and non-broad-line active galactic nuclei. Combining our wide-area survey with other Chandra and XMM-Newton hard X-ray surveys, we find a definite lack of luminous, high accretion rate sources at z<1, consistent with previous observations that showed that supermassive black hole growth is dominated at low redshifts by sources with low accretion rates.

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