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Chandra堆积对24微米Spitzer源对未分辨宇宙X射线背景贡献的限制

Chandra Stacking Constraints on the Contribution of 24 micron Spitzer Sources to the Unresolved Cosmic X-ray Background

A. T. Steffen, W. N. Brandt, D. M. Alexander, S. C. Gallagher, B. D. Lehmer

摘要:

我们采用X射线叠加技术来研究未探测到的中红外选择的X射线源对未分辨的硬(6-8 keV)宇宙X射线背景(CXB)的贡献。我们使用公开的,24微米斯皮策空间望远镜MIPS目录从大天文台起源深巡天(GOODS)-北和南领域,这是集中在2 MS钱德拉深场北和1 MS钱德拉深场南,以确定明亮的(S_24 > 80微焦)中红外源,可能是由严重模糊AGN。我们在所有检查的X射线波段中测量到显著的堆叠X射线信号,包括第一次从未检测到的X射线源群体中测量到显著的(3.2 sigma)6-8 keV堆叠X射线信号。我们发现,6 keV以下的X射线未检测到的MIPS源约占总CXB的2%(或更少),但在6-8 keV波段约占6%。0.5-8 keV堆叠的X射线光谱与硬幂律(Gamma = 1.44 +/-0.07)一致,在较高的X射线能量下光谱硬化。我们的研究结果表明,这些明亮的MIPS源确实包含模糊的活动星系核,但不是未解决的50%的6-8 keV CXB的主要来源。我们的研究排除了被遮蔽的明亮类星体作为剩余未解决的CXB的重要来源,并表明它最有可能来自于大量被遮蔽的、高红移(z > 1)的、塞弗光度的活动星系核。

英文摘要:

We employ X-ray stacking techniques to examine the contribution from X-ray undetected, mid-infrared-selected sources to the unresolved, hard (6-8 keV) cosmic X-ray background (CXB). We use the publicly available, 24 micron Spitzer Space Telescope MIPS catalogs from the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS) - North and South fields, which are centered on the 2 Ms Chandra Deep Field-North and the 1 Ms Chandra Deep Field-South, to identify bright (S_24 > 80 microJy) mid-infrared sources that may be powered by heavily obscured AGNs. We measure a significant stacked X-ray signal in all of the X-ray bands examined, including, for the first time, a significant (3.2 sigma) 6-8 keV stacked X-ray signal from an X-ray undetected source population. We find that the X-ray-undetected MIPS sources make up about 2% (or less) of the total CXB below 6 keV, but about 6% in the 6-8 keV band. The 0.5-8 keV stacked X-ray spectrum is consistent with a hard power-law (Gamma = 1.44 +/- 0.07), with the spectrum hardening at higher X-ray energies. Our findings show that these bright MIPS sources do contain obscured AGNs, but are not the primary source of the unresolved 50% of 6-8 keV CXB. Our study rules out obscured, luminous QSOs as a significant source of the remaining unresolved CXB and suggests that it most likely arises from a large population of obscured, high-redshift (z > 1), Seyfert-luminosity AGNs.

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