The XMM-Newton/2dF survey IV. The X-ray spectral properties of the hard sources

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2004-04-02

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0404048v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 352 (2004) 91

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

To appear in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07899.x

We present an analysis of the X-ray spectral properties of 61 hard X-ray selected (2-8 keV) sources from the bright ($f_{2-8 keV}>10^{-14}$ \funits) {\it XMM-Newton}/2dF survey. This comprises of 9 {\it XMM-Newton} pointings in the North Galactic Pole region ($\sim 1.6 \rm deg^2$) and overlaps with the SDSS, 2QZ and 2dFGRS surveys. Our sources contribute about 50 per cent of the 2-10 keV X-ray background down to the flux limit of $10^{-14}$ cgs. The hardness ratio distribution of the sample suggests a deficit of heavily absorbed sources. A spectral fit to the co-added total source spectrum yields a steep photon index, $\Gamma=1.83^{+0.04}_{-0.05}$. All but 8 sources have optical counterparts down to the SDSS photometric limit of $r\approx22.5$. Spectroscopic identifications exist for 34 sources. The vast majority are associated with Broad-Line (BL) AGN (24 sources) while only 7 present narrow or no emission lines. Five sources are probably associated with Galactic stars. Finally, for another 17 probable AGN we present photometric redshifts. The combined spectrum of the 24 spectroscopically identified BL AGN is steep ($\Gamma=2.02^{+0.04}_{-0.05}$), while that of the 7 AGN, which do not present broad lines is flatter with $\Gamma=1.64^{+0.11}_{-0.11}$. The spectrum of the 8 optically unidentified sources is flat with $\Gamma\approx 1.1$. Spectral fits to the individual BL AGN reveal large absorption (rest-frame column density $\rm>10^{22} cm^{-2}$) in only two cases. The individual spectra of the NL AGN present significant evidence for even a moderate absorption ($\rm 3\times 10^{21} cm^{-2}$) in only one case.

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