The Chandra COSMOS Survey III : Optical and infrared identification of X-ray point sources
The Chandra COSMOS Survey (C-COSMOS) is a large, 1.8 Ms, Chandra program that has imaged the central 0.9 deg2 of the COSMOS field down to limiting depths of 1.9×10−16 erg cm−2 s−1 in the soft (0.5–2 keV) band, 7.3×10−16 erg cm−2 s−1 in the hard (2–10 keV) band, and 5.7×10−16 erg cm−2 s−1 in the full (0.5–10 keV) band. In this paper we report the i, K and 3.6μm identifications of the 1761 X-ray point sources. We use the likelihood ratio technique to derive the association of optical/infrared counterparts for 97% of the X-ray sources. For most of the remaining 3% , the presence of multiple counterparts or the faintness of the possible counterpart prevented a unique association. For only 10 X-ray sources we were not able to associate a counterpart, mostly due to the presence of a very bright field source close by. Only 2 sources are truly empty fields. The full catalog, including spectroscopic and photometric redshifts and classification described here in detail, is available on-line. Making use of the large number of X-ray sources, we update the “classic locus” of AGN defined 20 years ago in soft X-ray surveys and define a new locus containing 90% of the AGN in the survey with full band luminosity >1042erg s−1. We present the linear fit between the total i band magnitude and the X-ray flux in the soft and hard band, drawn over 2 orders of magnitude in X-ray flux, obtained using the combined C-COSMOS and XMM-COSMOS samples. We focus on the X-ray to optical flux ratio (X/O) and we test its known correlation with redshift and luminosity, and a recently introduced anti-correlation with the concentration index (C). We find a strong anti-correlation (though the dispersion is of the order of 0.5 dex) between C and X/O, computed in the hard band, and that 90% of the obscured AGN in the sample with morphological information live in galaxies with regular morphology (bulgy and disky/spiral), suggesting that secular processes govern a significant fraction of the BH growth at X-ray luminosities of 1043 − 1044.5erg s−1. We also investigate the degree of obscuration of the sample, using the hardness ratio and we compare the X-ray color with the near-infrared-to-optical one.locus” of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) defined 20 years ago in soft X-ray surveys and define a new locus containing 90% of the AGNs in the survey with full-band luminosity >1042 erg s–1. We present the linear fit between the total i-band magnitude and the X-ray flux in the soft and hard bands, drawn over two orders of magnitude in X-ray flux, obtained using the combined C-COSMOS and XMM-COSMOS samples. We focus on the X-ray to optical flux ratio (X/O) and we test its known correlation with redshift and luminosity, and a recently introduced anti-correlation with the concentration index (C). We find a strong anti-correlation (though the dispersion is of the order of 0.5 dex) between X/O computed in the hard band and C and that 90% of the obscured AGNs in the sample with morphological information live in galaxies with regular morphology (bulgy and disky/spiral), suggesting that secular processes govern a significant fraction of the black hole growth at X-ray luminosities of 1043-1044.5 erg s–1. We also investigate the degree of obscuration of the sample using the hardness ratio, and we compare the X-ray color with the near-infrared to optical color.
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Date Deposited | 27 Jul 2024 00:03 |
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