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ROSAT NEP巡天中的三维软X射线团-活动星系核互相关联函数

The 3D soft X-ray cluster-AGN cross-correlation function in the ROSAT NEP survey

N. Cappelluti, H. Boehringer, P. Schuecker, E. Pierpaoli, C. R. Mullis, I. M. Gioia, J. P. Henry

摘要:

X射线巡天有助于研究活动星系核的环境。钱德拉的深层观测显示,活动星系核的源面密度在星系团附近升高。这些工作的自然延伸是测量星系团周围活动星系核的空间成簇性和研究活动星系核与星系团附近星系之间的相对偏差,主要目的是测量星系团周围活动星系核的相关长度和测量稠密环境中完整样本活动星系核的平均成簇性。利用ROSAT-NEP巡天数据首次测量了软X射线团簇-活动星系核的红移空间交叉关联函数。该调查覆盖了北极周围9 x9度的区域,在那里检测到了442个X射线源,并且几乎完全通过光谱进行了识别。在s<50 h70^-1 Mpc的尺度上,我们检测到一个> 3 sigma的显著聚类信号。我们对数据进行了经典的最大似然幂律拟合,得到了相关长度s_0=8.7+1.2-0.3 h_70-1 Mpc和斜率gamma=1.7$^+0.2_-0.7(1 sigma误差)。这有力地证明活动星系核是宇宙大尺度结构的良好示踪剂。我们的数据进行了比较,通过互相关的X射线星系团和星系的结果。我们观察到,有很大的不确定性,AGN的偏置因子是类似的星系。

英文摘要:

X-ray surveys facilitate investigations of the environment of AGNs. Deep Chandra observations revealed that the AGNs source surface density rises near clusters of galaxies. The natural extension of these works is the measurement of spatial clustering of AGNs around clusters and the investigation of relative biasing between active galactic nuclei and galaxies near clusters.The major aims of this work are to obtain a measurement of the correlation length of AGNs around clusters and a measure of the averaged clustering properties of a complete sample of AGNs in dense environments. We present the first measurement of the soft X-ray cluster-AGN cross-correlation function in redshift space using the data of the ROSAT-NEP survey. The survey covers 9x9 deg^2 around the North Ecliptic Pole where 442 X-ray sources were detected and almost completely spectroscopically identified. We detected a >3sigma significant clustering signal on scales s<50 h70^-1 Mpc. We performed a classical maximum-likelihood power-law fit to the data and obtained a correlation length s_0=8.7+1.2-0.3 h_70-1 Mpc and a slope gamma=1.7$^+0.2_-0.7 (1sigma errors). This is a strong evidence that AGNs are good tracers of the large scale structure of the Universe. Our data were compared to the results obtained by cross-correlating X-ray clusters and galaxies. We observe, with a large uncertainty, that the bias factor of AGN is similar to that of galaxies.

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