X-ray Luminosity function of Active Galactic Nuclei in Galaxy clusters

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Galactic Nuclei, X-Ray Sources (Astronomical), Brightness, Intergalactic Matter, Galactic Nuclei, Circumnuclear Matter, And Bulges, X-Ray, Magnitudes And Colors, Luminosities, Intergalactic Matter, Quasar Absorption And Emission-Line Systems, Lyman Forest

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We report a statistical study of the cluster-centric distribution and X-ray luminosity functions of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in galaxy clusters using X-ray observations of 68 galaxy clusters from the Chandra archive. We found that the deprojected radial density profile of X-ray selected AGNs have a shape similar to normal galaxies rather than radio loud AGNs. On average the normalization of the cluster X-ray luminosity functions (XLFs) within r200 are ~324 and 231 times higher than that of the field luminosity function in the 0.5-2 and 2-8 keV bands, respectively. This AGN XLF implies that the average AGN fraction in clusters is (73+/-21)% and (52+/-18)% that of the field AGN fraction in the 0.5-2 and 2-8 keV bands, respectively.

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