Unresolved X-ray background: clues on galactic nuclear activity at z>6

Details Unresolved X-ray background: clues on galactic nuclear activity at z>6 Unresolved X-ray background: clues on galactic nuclear activity at z>6

2006-10-11

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0610329v2

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.374:761,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

9 pages, 7 figures, MNRAS in press

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.11195.x

We study, by means of dedicated simulations of massive black hole build-up, the possibility to constraint the existence and nature of the AGN population at z>6 with available and planned X-ray and near infrared space telescopes. We find that X-ray deep-field observations can set important constraints to the faint-end of the AGN luminosity function at very high redshift. Planned X-ray telescopes should be able to detect AGN hosting black holes with masses down to >10^5 Msun (i.e., X-ray luminosities in excess of 10^42 erg s^-1), and can constrain the evolution of the population of massive black hole at early times (66 and we discuss the possible role of AGN in the reionization of the Universe at these early epochs, showing that AGN alone can provide enough ionizing photons only in the (improbable) case of an almost completely homogeneous inter-galactic medium. Finally, we show that super-Eddington accretion, suggested by the observed QSOs at z>6, must be a very rare event, confined to black holes living in the highest density peaks.

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