Optical Spectroscopy of X-ray sources in the Extended Chandra Deep Field South

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2008-10-21

arxiv.org/abs/0810.3917v2

Astrophys.J.693:1713-1727,2009

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

17 pages, 16 figures in emulateapj format. Replaced to match the version accepted by ApJ. Few changes, main conclusions unchan

Scientific paper

10.1088/0004-637X/693/2/1713

We present the first results of our optical spectroscopy program aimed to provide redshifts and identifications for the X-ray sources in the Extended Chandra Deep Field South. A total of 339 sources were targeted using the IMACS spectrograph at the Magellan telescopes and the VIMOS spectrograph at the VLT. We measured redshifts for 186 X-ray sources, including archival data and a literature search. We find that the AGN host galaxies have on average redder rest-frame optical colors than non-active galaxies, and that they live mostly in the "green valley". The dependence of the fraction of AGN that are obscured on both luminosity and redshift is confirmed at high significance and the observed AGN space density is compared with the expectations from existing luminosity functions. These AGN show a significant difference in the mid-IR to X-ray flux ratio for obscured and unobscured AGN, which can be explained by the effects of dust self-absorption on the former. This difference is larger for lower luminosity sources, which is consistent with the dust opening angle depending on AGN luminosity.

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