XMM and Chandra measurements of the AGN intrinsic absorption: dependence on luminosity and redshift

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19 June 2006

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.astro-ph/0606438

Abstract

We combine bright XMM data with the Chandra Deep Field South observations in order to explore the behavior of the intrinsic AGN absorption, as a function of redshift and luminosity.Our sample consists of 359 sources selected in the hard 2-8 keV band, spanning the flux range 6\times10^{-16}-$3\times10^{-13} erg s^-1 cm^-2 with a high rate of spectroscopic or photometric redshift completeness (100 and 85 per cent respectively for the Chandra and XMM data. We derive the column density values using X-ray spectral fits. We find that the fraction of obscured AGN falls with increasing luminosity in agreement with previous findings. The fraction of obscured AGN shows an apparent increase at high redshifts (z>2). Simulations show that this effect can be most probably attributed to the fact that at high redshifts the column densities are overestimated.

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Published version: Astronomy & Astrophysics, 459 (3), 693.

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