X-ray active galactic nucleus at z~0.4 Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Noordeh E.
  2. Canning R.E.A.
  3. King A.
  4. Allen S.W.
  5. Mantz A.
  6. Morris R.G.,Ehlert S.
  7. von der Linden A.
  8. Brandt W.N.
  9. Luo B.
  10. Xue Y.Q.
  11. Kelly P.
  12. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present an analysis of the X-ray active galactic nucleus (AGN) population in a sample of seven massive galaxy clusters in the redshift range 0.35<z<0.45. We utilize high-quality Chandra X-ray imaging to robustly identify AGN and precisely determine cluster masses and centroids. Follow-up VIsible Multi-Object Spectrograph optical spectroscopy allows us to determine which AGN are cluster members. Studying the subset of AGN with 0.5-8keV luminosities >6.8x10^42^erg/s, within r~<2r_500_ (approximately the virial radius), we find that the cluster AGN space density scales with cluster mass as ~M^(-2.0+0.8-0.9)^. This result rules out zero mass dependence of the cluster X-ray AGN space density at the 2.5{sigma} level. We compare our cluster X-ray AGN sample to a control field with identical selection and find that the cluster AGN fraction is significantly suppressed relative to the field when considering the brightest galaxies with V<21.5. For fainter galaxies, this difference is not present. Comparing the X-ray hardness ratios of cluster member AGN to those in the control field, we find no evidence for enhanced X-ray obscuration of cluster member AGN. Lastly, we see tentative evidence that disturbed cluster environments may contribute to enhanced AGN activity.

Keywords
  1. galaxy-clusters
  2. active-galactic-nuclei
  3. x-ray-sources
  4. redshifted
  5. visible-astronomy
  6. spectroscopy
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2020MNRAS.498.4095N
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History

2023-11-06T08:19:24Z
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2023-11-06T08:19:24Z
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2023-12-11T20:02:54Z
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