Tracing the large scale structure in the Chandra Deep Field South

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2003-04-09

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0304177v1

Astrophys.J. 592 (2003) 721-727

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

18 pages, 3 figures. Accepted by The Astrophysical Journal. A high resolution version of Fig.2 can be found at http://www.ar

Scientific paper

10.1086/375777

We report the discovery of large scale structures of X-ray sources in the 1Msec observation of the Chandra Deep Field South. Two main structures appear as narrow (Delta_z < 0.02) spikes in the source redshift distribution at z=0.67 and z=0.73, respectively. Their angular distribution spans a region at least ~ 17 arcmin wide, corresponding to a physical size of 7.3 h_{70}^{-1} Mpc at a redshift of z ~ 0.7 (Omega_m=0.3, Omega_{Lambda}=0.7). These spikes are populated by 19 sources each, which are mainly identified as Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). Two sources in each spike are extended in X-rays, corresponding to galaxy groups/clusters embedded in larger structures. The X-ray source redshift distribution shows other spikes, the most remarkable at z=1.04, 1.62 and 2.57. This is one of the first evidences for large scale structure traced by X-ray sources and for spatial clustering of X-ray selected AGN. The X-ray data have been complemented with the spectroscopic data from the K20 near infrared survey (Cimatti et al. 2002), which covers ~1/10 of the X-ray field. Also in this survey the source redshift distribution shows several spikes. Two narrow structures at z=0.67 and z=0.73 (again with Delta_z ~ 0.02) are the most significant features, containing 24 and 47 galaxies, respectively. While the K20 structure at z=0.73 is dominated by a standard galaxy cluster with a significant concentration around a central cD galaxy and morphological segregation, the galaxies at z=0.67 constitute a loose structure rather uniformly distributed along the K20 field.[abridged]

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