Detecting high redshift evolved galaxies as the hosts of optically faint hard X-ray sources

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2001-02-18

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0102306v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, ApJ Letters, in press

Scientific paper

10.1086/319839

We combine deep Subaru near-infrared images of the massive lensing clusters A2390 and A370 with Keck optical data to map the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of Chandra X-ray sources lying behind the clusters. The three sources behind A2390 are found to have extremely red colors with SEDs consistent with evolved galaxies at redshifts z>1.4. One source has extremely anomalous colors, which we interpret as evidence for a type Sa SED at a redshift around 2.5. The photometric redshift of another source has been confirmed at z=1.467 from near-infrared spectroscopy using the CISCO spectrograph on Subaru. Mapping of optically faint hard X-ray sources may prove to be an extremely efficient way to locate luminous evolved galaxies at high redshifts.

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