Faint Blue Galaxies as a Probe of the X-ray Background at High Redshift

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1995-09-04

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9509013v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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We present a formalism describing the physical content of cross-correlation functions between a diffuse background and a population of discrete sources. The formalism is used to interpret cross-correlation signals between the unresolved X-ray background and a galaxy population resolved to high redshift in another spectral band. Specifically, we apply it to the so-called faint blue galaxy population and constrain their X-ray emissivity and clustering properties. A model is presented which satisfies the recently measured constraints on all 3 correlation functions (galaxy/galaxy, background/background and galaxy/background). This model predicts that faint galaxies in the magnitude range B=18-23 (cvering redshifts $z \lsim 0.5$) make up $\sim 22 \%$ of the X-ray background in the 0.5-2 keV band. At the mean redshift of the galaxy sample, $\bar z=0.26$, the comoving volume emissivity is $\rho_X \sim 6-9 \times 10^{38}h$ ergs s$^{-1}$Mpc$^{-3}$ . When extrapolated to fainter magnitudes, the faint blue galaxy population can account for most of the residual background at soft energy. We show how the measurement of the angular and zero-lag cross-correlation functions between increasingly faint galaxies and the X-ray background can allow us to map the X-ray emissivity as a function of redshift.

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