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arXiv 2008.01870astro-ph.GA
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用eROSITA进行下一代X射线星系巡天

The Next Generation X-ray Galaxy Survey with eROSITA

Antara R. Basu-Zych, Ann E. Hornschemeier, Frank Haberl, Neven Vulic, Jorn Wilms, Andreas Zezas, Konstantinos Kovlakas, Andrew Ptak, Thomas Dauser

摘要:

eROSITA于2019年7月13日发射,将完成近三十年来软和中X射线波段的首次全天空调查。这项为期4年的调查将于2023年底结束,将为整个天体物理学界提供丰富的遗产,并补充即将进行的多波长调查(例如大型综合巡天望远镜和暗能量调查)。除了研究活动星系核(AGN)和星系团的主要科学目标外,eROSITA还将对正常(即,不是AGN)星系。从多波长目录,我们测量恒星形成率和恒星质量的60 212星系的距离限制在50-200 Mpc。我们选择这个距离范围来关注本地宇宙之外相对未被探索的体积,在那里星系将在很大程度上是空间无法分辨的,并探测与低光度和/或高度模糊的AGN人口重叠的X射线光度范围。我们使用最新的X射线比例关系以及在轨eROSITA仪器性能来预测XRB和扩散热气体的X射线发射,并使用任务模拟软件SIXTE进行分析预测和端到端模拟。我们认为潜在的贡献隐藏活动星系核和评论的影响,正常星系的活动星系核光度函数的暗端的测量。我们预测,eROSITA 4年巡天将探测到$\gtrsim$ 15000个星系(3个$σ$显著性),50-200 Mpc,这是迄今为止任何X射线巡天探测到的正常星系的100倍。

英文摘要:

eROSITA, launched on 13 July 2019, will be completing the first all-sky survey in the soft and medium X-ray band in nearly three decades. This 4-year survey, finishing in late 2023, will present a rich legacy for the entire astrophysics community and complement upcoming multi-wavelength surveys (with, e.g. the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and the Dark Energy Survey). Besides the major scientific aim to study active galactic nuclei (AGN) and galaxy clusters, eROSITA will contribute significantly to X-ray studies of normal (i.e., not AGN) galaxies. Starting from multi-wavelength catalogues, we measure star formation rates and stellar masses for 60 212 galaxies constrained to distances of 50-200 Mpc. We chose this distance range to focus on the relatively unexplored volume outside the local Universe, where galaxies will be largely spatially unresolved and probe a range of X-ray luminosities that overlap with the low luminosity and/or highly obscured AGN population. We use the most recent X-ray scaling relations as well as the on-orbit eROSITA instrument performance to predict the X-ray emission from XRBs and diffuse hot gas and to perform both an analytic prediction and an end-to-end simulation using the mission simulation software, SIXTE. We consider potential contributions from hidden AGN and comment on the impact of normal galaxies on the measurement of the faint end of the AGN luminosity function. We predict that the eROSITA 4-year survey, will detect $\gtrsim$ 15 000 galaxies (3 $σ$ significance) at 50-200 Mpc, which is ~100X more normal galaxies than detected in any X-ray survey to date.

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