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ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL
卷 131, 期 5, 页码 2394-2405出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/503107
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cosmology : observations; diffuse radiation; surveys; X-rays : galaxies; X-rays : general
We analyze a population of intermediate-redshift (z approximate to 0.05-0.3) off-nuclear X-ray sources located within optically bright galaxies in the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey and Galaxy Evolution from Morphology and SEDs fields. A total of 24 off-nuclear source candidates are classified using deep Chandra X-Ray Observatory exposures from the Chandra Deep Field-North, Chandra Deep Field-South, and Extended Chandra Deep Field-South; 15 of these are newly identified. These sources have average X-ray spectral shapes and optical environments similar to those observed for off-nuclear intermediate-luminosity (L-X >= 10(39) ergs s(-1) in the 0.5-2.0 keV band) X-ray objects (IXOs; sometimes referred to as ultraluminous X-ray sources) in the local universe. This sample improves the available source statistics for intermediate-redshift off-nuclear sources with L-X greater than or similar to 10(39.5) ergs s(-1), and it places significant new constraints on the redshift evolution of the off-nuclear source frequency in field galaxies. The fraction of intermediate-redshift field galaxies containing an off-nuclear source with L-X greater than or similar to 10(39) ergs s(-1) is suggestively elevated (approximate to 80% confidence level) with respect to that observed for IXOs in the local universe; we calculate this elevation to be a factor of approximate to 1.9(-1.3)(+1.4). A rise in this fraction is plausibly expected as a consequence of the observed increase in global star formation density with redshift, and our results are consistent with the expected magnitude of the rise in this fraction.
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