期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 693, 期 1, 页码 8-22出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/693/1/8
关键词
galaxies: active; surveys; X-rays: galaxies
资金
- ESA Member States
- USA (NASA)
- Bundesministerium fur Wirtschaft und Technologie/Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt (BMWI/DLR) [FKZ 50 OX 0001]
- Max-Planck Society
- XMM-Newton DLR [50-G-0502]
- Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [HA 1850/28-1]
- ASI-INAF
- PRIN/MIUR [I/023/05/00, 2006-02-5203]
- zCOSMOS ESO Large [175.A-0839]
We present a new measurement of the space density of high-redshift (z similar or equal to 3.0-4.5), X-ray-selected quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) obtained by exploiting the deep and uniform multiwavelength coverage of the COSMOS survey. We have assembled a large (40 objects), homogeneous sample of z > 3 QSOs with X-ray flux F0.5-2 keV > 10(-15) erg cm(-2) s(-1), and available spectroscopic (22) or photometric (18) redshifts. We discuss their optical (color-color diagrams) and X-ray properties, their number counts and space densities and compare our findings with previous works and model predictions. We find that the optical properties of X-ray-selected quasars are not significantly different from those of optically selected samples. There is evidence for substantial X-ray absorption (logN(H) > 23 cm(-2)) in about 20% of the sources in the sample. We find that the comoving space density of luminous (L-X greater than or similar to 10(44) erg s(-1)) QSOs declines exponentially (by an e-folding per unit redshift) in the z similar to 3.0-4.5 range, with a behavior similar to that observed for optically bright unobscured QSOs selected in large area optical surveys. Prospects for future, large and deep X-ray surveys are also discussed.
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