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X射线AGN的空间和角度聚类比较

Comparison of the spatial and the angular clustering of X-ray AGN

L. Koutoulidis, M. Plionis, I. Georgantopoulos, A. Georgakakis, A. Akylas, S. Basilakos, G. Mountrichas

摘要:

角关联函数是一个强有力的工具,用于推导活动星系核的成团性质,从而推导出它们所处的相应暗物质晕的质量。然而,基于在X射线样品上应用角相关函数的研究产生的结果与基于空间关联函数的直接估计的结果明显不一致。本文的目的是试图通过分析一个定义明确的样本来调查这个问题。为此,我们使用硬带(2-10千电子伏)X射线选定的钱德拉神盾局领域的来源,选择,因为准确地导出通量灵敏度地图的可用性。特别是,我们使用的186个硬带源的光谱红移在z=0.3-1.3的范围内,选择的范围,以包含大部分的活动星系核,同时最大限度地减少未知的集群和光度演化的贡献非常高的红移。利用投影的空间自关联函数,我们得到了一个5.4 ± 1.0 Mpc的聚类共动长度(γ =1.8),与文献中的结果一致。我们进一步推导出的角度关联函数和相应的空间集群长度使用林伯的反演方程和一种新的参数化的集群演化模型,也考虑到主机暗物质晕的偏差演化。从空间关联函数分析,在z~0.75的中位红移处,Limber的逆空间共动簇长为5.5 ± 1.2 Mpc,与直接测量的一致,但对扰动增长模式有显著的非线性贡献,这是独立于文献中不同红移处x_0的结果估计的。因此,使用这个X射线活动星系核样本和我们的聚集演化参数化,我们发现角度和空间聚集分析之间具有良好的一致性。

英文摘要:

The angular correlation function is a powerful tool for deriving the clustering properties of AGN and hence the mass of the corresponding dark matter halos in which they reside. However, studies based on the application of the angular correlation function on X-ray samples, yield results apparently inconsistent with those based on the direct estimation of the spatial correlation function. The goal of the present paper is to attempt to investigate this issue by analysing a well defined sample. To this end we use the hard-band (2-10 keV) X-ray selected sources of the Chandra AEGIS fields, chosen because of the availability of accurately derived flux sensitivity maps. In particular we use the 186 hard-band sources with spectroscopic redshifts in the range z=0.3-1.3, a range selected in order to contain the bulk of the AGN while minimizing the contribution of unknown clustering and luminosity evolution from very high redshifts. Using the projected spatial auto-correlation function, we derive a clustering comoving length of 5.4+-1.0 Mpc (for gamma=1.8), consistent with results in the literature. We further derive the angular correlation function and the corresponding spatial clustering length using the Limber's inversion equation and a novel parametrization of the clustering evolution model that also takes into account the bias evolution of the host dark matter halo. The Limber's inverted spatial comoving clustering length of 5.5+-1.2 Mpc at a median redshift of z~0.75, matches the directly measured one, from the spatial correlation function analysis, but for a significant non-linear contribution to the growing mode of perturbations, estimated independently from literature results of x_0 at different redshifts. Therefore, using this sample of X-ray AGN and our clustering evolution parametrization we have found an excellent consistency between the angular and spatial clustering analysis.

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