The large-scale bias of the hard X-ray background

Details The large-scale bias of the hard X-ray background The large-scale bias of the hard X-ray background

2004-04-18

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0404348v2

Astrophys.J. 612 (2004) 647-651

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages, 3 eps figures, accepted for ApJ, vol. 612, 10 September 2004

Scientific paper

10.1086/422678

Recent deep X-ray surveys combined with spectroscopic identification of the sources have allowed the determination of the rest-frame 2-8 keV luminosity as a function of redshift. In addition, an analysis of the HEAO1 A2 2-10 keV full-sky map of the X-ray background (XRB) reveals clustering on the scale of several degrees. Combining these two results in the context of the currently favored Lambda-CDM cosmological model implies an average X-ray bias factor, b_x, of b_x^2 = 1.12 +- 0.33, i.e., b_x = 1.06 +- 0.16. These error estimates include only statistical error; the systematic error sources, while comparable, appear to be sub-dominant. This result is in contrast to the large biases of some previous estimates and is more in line with current estimates of the optical bias of L* galaxies.

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