CANDELS GOODS-S sources Chandra counterparts Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Cappelluti N.
  2. Comastri A.
  3. Fontana A.
  4. Zamorani G.
  5. Amorin R.,Castellano M.
  6. Merlin E.
  7. Santini P.
  8. Elbaz D.
  9. Schreiber C.
  10. Shu X.,Wang T.
  11. Dunlop J.S.
  12. Bourne N.
  13. Bruce V.A.
  14. Buitrago F.
  15. Michalowski M.J.,Derriere S.
  16. Ferguson H.C.
  17. Faber S.M.
  18. Vito F.
  19. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

Improving the capabilities of detecting faint X-ray sources is fundamental to increase the statistics on faint high-z AGN and star-forming galaxies. We performed a simultaneous Maximum Likelihood PSF fit in the [0.5-2]keV and [2-7]keV energy bands of the 4Ms Chandra Deep Field South (CDFS) data at the position of the 34930 CANDELS H-band selected galaxies. For each detected source we provide X-ray photometry and optical counterpart validation. We validated this technique by means of a raytracing simulation. We detected a total of 698 X-ray point-sources with a likelihood L>4.98 (i.e.> 2.7{sigma}). We show that the prior knowledge of a deep sample of Optical-NIR galaxies leads to a significant increase of the detection of faint (i.e. ~10^-17^cgs in the [0.5-2]keV band) sources with respect to "blind" X-ray detections. By including previous catalogs, this work increases the total number of X-ray sources detected in the 4Ms CDFS, CANDELS area to 793, which represents the largest sample of extremely faint X-ray sources assembled to date. Our results suggest that a large fraction of the optical counterparts of our X-ray sources determined by likelihood ratio actually coincides with the priors used for the source detection. Most of th e new detected sources are likely star-forming galaxies or faint absorbed AGN. We identified a few sources sources with putative photometric redshift z>4. Despite the low number statistics, this sample significantly increases the number of X-ray selected candidate high-z AGN.

Keywords
  1. surveys
  2. x-ray-sources
  3. astronomical-object-identification
  4. galaxies
  5. visible-astronomy
  6. active-galactic-nuclei
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2016ApJ...823...95C
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Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.18230095

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History

2016-05-31T08:25:31Z
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2016-05-31T08:25:31Z
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