Luminosity Dependent X-ray AGN Clustering ?

Details Luminosity Dependent X-ray AGN Clustering ? Luminosity Dependent X-ray AGN Clustering ?

2007-12-18

arxiv.org/abs/0712.3072v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

ApJ Letters accepted

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We have analysed the angular clustering of X-ray selected active galactic nuclei (AGN) in different flux-limited sub-samples of the Chandra Deep Field North (CDF-N) and South (CDF-S) surveys. We find a strong dependence of the clustering strength on the sub-sample flux-limit, a fact which explains most of the disparate clustering results of different XMM and Chandra surveys. Using Limber's equation, we find that the inverted CDF-N and CDF-S spatial clustering lengths are consistent with direct spatial clustering measures found in the literature, while at higher flux-limits the clustering length increases considerably; for example, at $fx,limit ~ 10^{-15} erg/s/cm^{-2} we obtain r_0~ 17 +- 5 and 18+- 3 h^{-1} Mpc, for the CDF-N and CDF-S, respectively. We show that the observed flux-limit clustering trend hints towards an X-ray luminosity dependent clustering of X-ray selected, $z\sim 1$, AGNs.

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