Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-01-11
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 367 (2006) 1727-1734
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
8 pages, to appear in MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10088.x
We present Chandra and XMM observations of 12 bright (f(2-10 keV) > 10^-13 cgs) sources from the ASCA SHEEP (Search for the High Energy Extragalactic Population) survey. Most of these have been either not observed or not detected previously with the ROSAT mission and therefore they constitute a sample biased towards hard sources. The Chandra observations are important in locating with accuracy the optical counterpart of the X-ray sources. Optical spectroscopic observations show that our sample is associated with both narrow-line (NL) (six objects), and Broad-Line (BL) AGN (five objects) with one source remaining unidentified. Our sources cover the redshift range 0.04 to 1.29 spanning luminosities from 10^42 to 10^45 cgs (2-10 keV). The NL sources have preferentially lower redshift (and luminosity) compared with the BL ones. This can be most easily explained in a model where the NL AGN are intrinsically less luminous than the BL ones in line with the results of Steffen et al. The X-ray spectral fittings show a roughly equal number of obscured (N_H>10^22 cgs) and unobscured (N_H<10^22 cgs) sources. There is a clear tendency for obscured sources to be associated with NL AGN and unobscured sources with BL ones. However, there is a marked exception with the highest obscuring column observed at a BL AGN at a redshift of z=0.5.
Brotherton Michael
Georgakakis Antonis
Georgantopoulos Ioannis
Nandra Kirpal
O'Neill Patrick
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