Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-04-29
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 343 (2003) 924
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
9 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS, typo corrected
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06737.x
We present a survey of X-ray point sources in a 91 ksec Chandra ACIS-S observation of the z=0.83 cluster MS1054-0321. We detect 47 X-ray sources within the 8.3 arcmin by 8.3 arcmin field, of which two are immediately confirmed from pre-existing spectroscopy to be at the redshift of the cluster. At fluxes brighter than S_(0.5 - 8 keV) = 5 x 10^{-15} erg s^{-1} cm^{-2} we find a ~ 2 sigma excess compared to predictions from field surveys, consistent with an excess of approximately 6 AGN. If these sources are associated with the cluster, they too are AGN with luminosities of order L_(0.5 - 8 keV) ~ 10^{43} erg s^{-1}. Combined with the identification of 7 cluster AGN from deep radio observations (Best et al. 2002), these observations suggest significantly enhanced AGN activity in MS1054-03 compared to local galaxy clusters. Interestingly, the excess of X-ray detected AGN is found at radial distances of between 1 and 2 Mpc, suggesting they may be associated with infalling galaxies. The radio AGN are seen within the inner Mpc of the cluster and are largely undetected in the X-ray, suggesting they are either intrinsically less luminous and/or heavily obscured.
Almaini Omar
Best Philip N.
Johnson Oliver
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