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Title: THE SWIRE/CHANDRA SURVEY: THE X-RAY SOURCES

Journal Article · · Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series
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  1. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02138 (United States)
  2. Department of Astronomy, Wesleyan University, CT 06459 (United States)
  3. Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI), 61-1, Hwaam-dong, Yuseong-gu, Deajeon 305-348 (Korea, Republic of)
  4. INAF-ISAF Milano, via E. Bassini 15, Milano 20133 (Italy)
  5. The National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, VI 22902 (United States)
  6. Center for Astrophysics and Space Science, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0424 (United States)
  7. Spitzer Science Center, California Institute of Technology, 100-22, Pasadena, CA 91125 (United States)
  8. National Radio Astronomy Observatory, P.O. Box 0, Socorro, NM 87801 (United States)
  9. Dipartimento Di Astronomia, Universita di Padova, Vicolo Osservatorio 5, I-35122 Padua (Italy)
  10. California Institute of Technology, MC 105-24, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125 (United States)

We report a moderate-depth (70 ks), contiguous 0.7 deg{sup 2} Chandra survey in the Lockman Hole Field of the Spitzer/SWIRE Legacy Survey coincident with a completed, ultra-deep VLA survey with deep optical and near-infrared imaging in-hand. The primary motivation is to distinguish starburst galaxies and active galactic nuclei (AGNs), including the significant, highly obscured (log N {sub H} > 23) subset. Chandra has detected 775 X-ray sources to a limiting broadband (0.3-8 keV) flux {approx}4 x 10{sup -16} erg cm{sup -2} s{sup -1}. We present the X-ray catalog, fluxes, hardness ratios, and multi-wavelength fluxes. The log N versus log S agrees with those of previous surveys covering similar flux ranges. The Chandra and Spitzer flux limits are well matched: 771 (99%) of the X-ray sources have infrared (IR) or optical counterparts, and 333 have MIPS 24 {mu}m detections. There are four optical-only X-ray sources and four with no visible optical/IR counterpart. The very deep ({approx}2.7 {mu}Jy rms) VLA data yield 251 (>4{sigma}) radio counterparts, 44% of the X-ray sources in the field. We confirm that the tendency for lower X-ray flux sources to be harder is primarily due to absorption. As expected, there is no correlation between observed IR and X-ray fluxes. Optically bright, type 1, and red AGNs lie in distinct regions of the IR versus X-ray flux plots, demonstrating the wide range of spectral energy distributions in this sample and providing the potential for classification/source selection. Many optically bright sources, which lie outside the AGN region in the optical versus X-ray plots (f{sub r} /f{sub x} >10), lie inside the region predicted for red AGNs in IR versus X-ray plots, consistent with the presence of an active nucleus. More than 40% of the X-ray sources in the VLA field are radio-loud using the classical definition, R{sub L} . The majority of these are red and relatively faint in the optical so that the use of R{sub L} to select those AGNs with the strongest radio emission becomes questionable. Using the 24 {mu}m to radio flux ratio (q {sub 24}) instead results in 13 of the 147 AGNs with sufficient data being classified as radio-loud, in good agreement with the {approx}10% expected for broad-lined AGNs based on optical surveys. We conclude that q {sub 24} is a more reliable indicator of radio-loudness. Use of R{sub L} should be confined to the optically selected type 1 AGN.

OSTI ID:
21301478
Journal Information:
Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series, Vol. 185, Issue 2; Other Information: DOI: 10.1088/0067-0049/185/2/433; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0067-0049
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English