2010MNRAS.407..846D -
Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 407, 846-853 (2010/September-2)
Excess AGN activity in the z = 2.30 protocluster in HS 1700+64.
DIGBY-NORTH J.A., NANDRA K., LAIRD E.S., STEIDEL C.C., GEORGAKAKIS A., BOGOSAVLJEVIC M., ERB D.K., SHAPLEY A.E., REDDY N.A. and AIRD J.
Abstract (from CDS):
We present the results of spectroscopic, narrow-band and X-ray observations of a z = 2.30 protocluster in the field of the QSO HS 1700+643. Using a sample of BX/MD galaxies, which are selected to be at z ∼ 2.2-2.7 by their rest-frame ultraviolet colours, we find that there are five protocluster AGN which have been identified by characteristic emission-lines in their optical/near-IR spectra; this represents an enhancement over the field significant at >98.5 per cent confidence. Using a ∼ 200-ks Chandra/ACIS-I observation of this field we detect a total of 161 X-ray point sources to a Poissonian false-probability limit of 4x10–6 and identify eight of these with BX/MD galaxies. Two of these are spectroscopically confirmed protocluster members and are also classified as emission-line AGN. When compared to a similarly selected field sample, the analysis indicates this is also evidence for an enhancement of X-ray selected BX/MD AGN over the field, significant at >99 per cent confidence. Deep Lyα narrow-band imaging reveals that a total of 4/123 Lyα emitters (LAEs) are found to be associated with X-ray sources, with two of these confirmed protocluster members and one highly likely member. We do not find a significant enhancement of AGN activity in this LAE sample over that of the field (result is significant at only 87 per cent confidence). The X-ray emitting AGN fractions for the BX/MD and LAE samples are found to be 6.9+9.2–4.4 and 2.9+2.9–1.6per cent, respectively, for protocluster AGN with L2–10keV ≥ 4.6x1043 erg/s at z = 2.30. These findings are similar to results from the z = 3.09 protocluster in the SSA 22 field found by Lehmer et al. (2009), in that both suggest AGN activity is favoured in dense environments at z > 2.
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© 2010 The Authors. Journal compilation © 2010 RAS
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galaxies: active - galaxies: clusters: general - galaxies: high-redshift - surveys - X-rays: general
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