Powerful obscured AGN among X-ray hard, optically-dim serendipitous Chandra sources

Details Powerful obscured AGN among X-ray hard, optically-dim serendipitous Chandra sources Powerful obscured AGN among X-ray hard, optically-dim serendipitous Chandra sources

2003-10-27

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0310772v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.348:529,2004

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

MNRAS accepted; 30 pages, 12 figures, 8 tables; Figures of all targets and other information available in the electronic journ

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07341.x

We present a small sample of Chandra X-ray sources selected from the fields of ACIS observations which probe fluxes around the break in the hard band source counts. The targets of these fields include 9 nearby galaxy clusters, 1 distant cluster and 2 powerful radio galaxy fields. The follow-up of this serendipitous sample was biased towards X-ray hard and optically-dim sources mostly not seen on the Digitized Sky Survey; for these, we present X-ray fluxes, optical and near-infrared photometry leading to 51 photometric redshifts in all and 18 independently measured spectroscopic redshifts. Few sources are associated with the target fields themselves. Fifty-six of 58 sources imaged in the K-band are detected at K<~20 with K_median=18, and of these, 38 have hard X-ray count ratios and 24 of these are significantly hard with most of the counts emerging about 2 keV. We find that almost all are AGN hosted in massive early-type host galaxies with a photometric redshift distribution peaking at z~1. Two type 2 quasars with intrinsic X-ray luminosity L>~10^{45} erg/s, Fe K_alpha emission lines and absorbing column density nH>10^{23} cm^{-2} -- and nH>~10^{24} cm^{-2} in one case -- are discussed in detail; the sample contains at least 12 potential type 2 quasars in all. We discuss various detection strategies for type 2 quasars and calculate their inferred space density. This combines and extends a number of results from subsamples already published by us.

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