Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-09-23
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Poster contribution to the proceedings of the "Multiwavelength Cosmology" conference, held in Myconos in June 2003. Editor M.
Scientific paper
The technique of estimating redshifts using photometric rather than spectroscopic observations has recently received great attention due to its simplicity and the accuracy of the results obtained. In this work, we estimate photometric redshifts for an X-ray selected QSO sample. This is the first time this technique is applied on such a sample. We first calculate the accuracy of the results obtained by comparing photometric to spectroscopic redshifts for a sub-sample of our QSO sample: for the majority (~67%) of the objects in this sub-sample, photometric redshift estimates are correct within Dz<0.3. We then derive the photometric redshift distribution for the whole QSO sample. In the future, we expect to use the photometric redshift distribution in order to derive the distributions of properties such as the Hardness Ratio and hence the hydrogen column density, the luminosity function etc. As an example, we estimate here the dependence of the Hardness Ratio of the QSO sample on photometric redshift.
Georgakakis Antonis
Georgantopoulos Ioannis
Giannakis O.
Hatziminaoglou Evanthia
Kitsionas Spyridon
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