We publicly release the spectroscopic and photometric redshift catalog of the sources detected with Chandra in the field of the z = 6.3 quasar SDSS J1030+0525. This is currently the fifth-deepest extragalactic X-ray field, and reaches a 0.5 2 keV flux limit of f0:5-2 = 6 × 10-17 erg s-1 cm-2. Using two independent methods, we measure a photometric redshift for 243 objects, while 123 (51%) sources also have a spectroscopic redshift, 110 of which come from an INAF-Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) Strategic Program.We use the spectroscopic redshifts to determine the quality of the photometric ones, and find it to be in agreement with that of other X-ray surveys which used a similar number of photometric data points. In particular, we measure a sample normalized median absolute deviation of NMAD = 1.48 × median(||zphot - zspec||/(1 + zspec)) = 0.065. We use these new spectroscopic and photometric redshifts to study the properties of the Chandra J1030 field.We observe several peaks in our spectroscopic redshift distribution between z = 0.15 and z = 1.5, and find that the sources in each peak are often distributed across the whole Chandra field of view. This confirms that X-ray-selected AGNs can efficiently track large-scale structures over physical scales of several megaparsecs. Finally, we computed the Chandra J1030 z > 3 number counts: while the spectroscopic completeness of our sample is limited at high redshift, our results point towards a potential source excess at z ≥ 4, which we plan to either confirm or reject in the near future with dedicated spectroscopic campaigns.
Redshift identification of X-ray-selected active galactic nuclei in the J1030 field: searching for large-scale structures and high-redshift sources / Marchesi S.; Mignoli M.; Gilli R.; Peca A.; Bolzonella M.; Nanni R.; Annunziatella M.; Balmaverde B.; Brusa M.; Calura F.; Cassara L.P.; Chiaberge M.; Comastri A.; Cusano F.; D'amato Q.; Iwasawa K.; Lanzuisi G.; Marchesini D.; Morishita T.; Prandoni I.; Rossi A.; Tozzi P.; Vignali C.; Vito F.; Zamorani G.; Norman C.. - In: ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS. - ISSN 0004-6361. - STAMPA. - 656:(2021), pp. A117.1-A117.19. [10.1051/0004-6361/202141416]
Redshift identification of X-ray-selected active galactic nuclei in the J1030 field: searching for large-scale structures and high-redshift sources
Marchesi S.;Brusa M.Membro del Collaboration Group
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2021
Abstract
We publicly release the spectroscopic and photometric redshift catalog of the sources detected with Chandra in the field of the z = 6.3 quasar SDSS J1030+0525. This is currently the fifth-deepest extragalactic X-ray field, and reaches a 0.5 2 keV flux limit of f0:5-2 = 6 × 10-17 erg s-1 cm-2. Using two independent methods, we measure a photometric redshift for 243 objects, while 123 (51%) sources also have a spectroscopic redshift, 110 of which come from an INAF-Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) Strategic Program.We use the spectroscopic redshifts to determine the quality of the photometric ones, and find it to be in agreement with that of other X-ray surveys which used a similar number of photometric data points. In particular, we measure a sample normalized median absolute deviation of NMAD = 1.48 × median(||zphot - zspec||/(1 + zspec)) = 0.065. We use these new spectroscopic and photometric redshifts to study the properties of the Chandra J1030 field.We observe several peaks in our spectroscopic redshift distribution between z = 0.15 and z = 1.5, and find that the sources in each peak are often distributed across the whole Chandra field of view. This confirms that X-ray-selected AGNs can efficiently track large-scale structures over physical scales of several megaparsecs. Finally, we computed the Chandra J1030 z > 3 number counts: while the spectroscopic completeness of our sample is limited at high redshift, our results point towards a potential source excess at z ≥ 4, which we plan to either confirm or reject in the near future with dedicated spectroscopic campaigns.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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