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Chandra-COSMOS巡天中射电选星星系的X射线特性

X-ray properties of radio-selected star forming galaxies in the Chandra-COSMOS survey

P. Ranalli, A. Comastri, G. Zamorani, N. Cappelluti, F. Civano, I. Georgantopoulos, R. Gilli, E. Schinnerer, V. Smolcic, C. Vignali

摘要:

X射线巡天包含了相当数量的恒星形成星系,超出了活动星系核,这通常是大多数的探测。文献中使用了许多基于X射线和多波长特性的方法来分离这两个群体。我们的目标是详细测试的分类方案,并研究所得到的样品的X射线性能。我们建立在VLA-COSMOS调查中选择的1.4 GHz星系样本上,Smolcic等人(2008)根据它们的光学颜色进行分类,并使用Chandra进行观察。一个同样选择的活动星系核的控制样品也用于比较。我们回顾了一些基于X射线的分类标准,并检查它们如何影响样品成分。Smolcic等人(2008年)设计的分类方案的效率是这样的,由于活动星系核相对于星系的X射线亮度更高,预计约有30%的复合/错误分类的物体。后一部分在X射线检测到的源中实际上是50%,而在未检测到的X射线源中,预期其要低得多。事实上,对未被探测到的源的叠加光谱的分析显示,活动星系核和星系样本之间始终存在强烈的不同性质。然后使用基于X射线的选择标准来细化两个样品。发现恒星形成星系的射电/X射线光度相关与邻近星系的X射线/射电比值相同。对于高红移或高光度的源,比值的某些演化可能是可能的,但这可能是由射电选择产生的偏差解释的。最后,我们讨论了VLA巡天和C-COSMOS巡天根据不同的选择标准对恒星形成星系的X射线计数,并将它们与Chandra深场的类似测量结果进行了比较。这里提出的分类方案可能会在未来的工作和调查中得到应用。

英文摘要:

X-ray surveys contain sizable numbers of star forming galaxies, beyond the AGN which usually make the majority of detections. Many methods to separate the two populations are used in the literature, based on X-ray and multiwavelength properties. We aim at a detailed test of the classification schemes and to study the X-ray properties of the resulting samples. We build on a sample of galaxies selected at 1.4 GHz in the VLA-COSMOS survey, classified by Smolcic et al. (2008) according to their optical colours and observed with Chandra. A similarly selected control sample of AGN is also used for comparison. We review some X-ray based classification criteria and check how they affect the sample composition. The efficiency of the classification scheme devised by Smolcic et al. (2008) is such that ~30% of composite/misclassified objects are expected because of the higher X-ray brightness of AGN with respect to galaxies. The latter fraction is actually 50% in the X-ray detected sources, while it is expected to be much lower among X-ray undetected sources. Indeed, the analysis of the stacked spectrum of undetected sources shows, consistently, strongly different properties between the AGN and galaxy samples. X-ray based selection criteria are then used to refine both samples. The radio/X-ray luminosity correlation for star forming galaxies is found to hold with the same X-ray/radio ratio valid for nearby galaxies. Some evolution of the ratio may be possible for sources at high redshift or high luminosity, tough it is likely explained by a bias arising from the radio selection. Finally, we discuss the X-ray number counts of star forming galaxies from the VLA- and C-COSMOS surveys according to different selection criteria, and compare them to the similar determination from the Chandra Deep Fields. The classification scheme proposed here may find application in future works and surveys.

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