Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-12-13
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
the full paper including the online material can be downloaded under http://www.aip.de/People/mkrumpe/pages_eng/Ver%F6ffentlic
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20065849
We report on a medium deep XMM-Newton survey of the Marano Field and optical follow-up observations. The mosaicked XMM-Newton pointings in this optical quasar survey field cover 0.6 square degree with a total of 120 ksec good observation time. We detected 328 X-ray sources in total. The turnover flux of our sample is f~5x10^(-15) erg/cm^2/s in the 0.2-10 keV band. With VLT FORS1 and FORS2 spectroscopy we classified 96 new X-ray counterparts. The central 0.28 square degree, where detailed optical follow-up observations were performed, contain 170 X-ray sources (detection likelihood ML>10), out of which 48 had already been detected by ROSAT. In this region we recover 23 out of 29 optically selected quasars. With a total of 110 classifications in our core sample we reach a completeness of ~65%. About one third of the XMM-Newton sources is classified as type II AGN with redshifts mostly below 1.0. Furthermore, we detect five high redshift type II AGN (2.2
Hasinger Guenter
Krumpe Mirko
Lamer Georg
Mignoli Marco
Schwope Axel D.
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