Detecting High-Redshift Evolved Galaxies as the Hosts of Optically Faint Hard X-Ray Sources
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- 10 April 2001
- journal article
- Published by American Astronomical Society in The Astrophysical Journal
- Vol. 551 (1) , L9-L12
- https://doi.org/10.1086/319839
Abstract
We combine deep Subaru near-infrared images of the massive lensing clusters A2390 and A370 with Keck optical data to map the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of Chandra X-ray sources lying behind the clusters. The three sources behind A2390 are found to have extremely red colors with SEDs consistent with evolved galaxies at redshifts z>1.4. One source has extremely anomalous colors, which we interpret as evidence for a type Sa SED at a redshift around 2.5. The photometric redshift of another source has been confirmed at z=1.467 from near-infrared spectroscopy using the CISCO spectrograph on Subaru. Mapping of optically faint hard X-ray sources may prove to be an extremely efficient way to locate luminous evolved galaxies at high redshifts.Comment: 5 pages, ApJ Letters, in presKeywords
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