2009A&A...507..747G -
Astronomy and Astrophysics, volume 507, 747-756 (2009/11-4)
The compton-thick AGN in the Chandra Deep Field North.
GEORGANTOPOULOS I., AKYLAS A., GEORGAKAKIS A. and ROWAN-ROBINSON M.
Abstract (from CDS):
We present X-ray spectral analysis of the brightest sources (f_2-10 keV_>10
–15erg/cm2/s) in the Chandra Deep Field North. Our sample consists of 222 sources; for the vast majority (171) either a spectroscopic or a photometric redshift is available. Our goal is to discover the Compton-thick AGN in a direct way i.e. through their X-ray spectra. Compton-thick AGN give away their presence in X-rays either directly through the absorption turnover redshifted in the Chandra passband, or through a flat, reflection-dominated, spectrum. The above selection criteria yield 10 Compton-thick AGN candidates of which the nine are reflection dominated. The IR or sub-mm data where available, corroborate the presence of a heavily obscured nucleus in most cases. All the five candidate Compton-thick sources with available 24µm data present very high values of the f
24/f
R flux ratio suggesting that they are dust obscured galaxies. The low f
x/f
IR ratio also suggest the presence of obscured nuclei in many cases. Four of the candidate Compton-thick sources are associated with sub-mm galaxies at high redshifts z∼2. The number count vs. flux distribution of the candidate Compton-thick AGN as well as their distribution with redshift agree reasonably well with the predictions of the X-ray background synthesis models of Gilli et al. (
2007A&A...463...79G).
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X-rays: general - X-rays: diffuse background - X-rays: galaxies - infrared: galaxies
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