Revisiting X-Ray-bright Optically Normal Galaxies with the Chandra Source Catalog

Autor: Dong-Woo Kim, Amanda Malnati, Alyssa Cassity, Giuseppina Fabbiano, Juan Rafael Martinez Galarza, Ewan O’Sullivan
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: The Astrophysical Journal, Vol 955, Iss 1, p 56 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1538-4357
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/acec3f
Popis: X-ray bright optically normal galaxies (XBONGs) are galaxies with X-ray luminosities consistent with those of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) but no evidence of AGN optical emission lines. Crossmatching the Chandra Source Catalog version 2 with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey sample of spectroscopically classified galaxies, we have identified 817 XBONG candidates with L _X > 10 ^42 erg s ^−1 and X-ray to optical flux ratio F _XO > 0.1. Comparisons with Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer colors and near-IR, optical, UV, and radio luminosities show that the loci of XBONGs are in-between those of control samples of normal galaxies and quasars and are consistent with low-luminosity quasars. We find that 43% of the XBONG sample have X-ray colors suggesting N _H > 10 ^22 cm ^−2 , double the fraction in the QSO sample, suggesting that a large fraction of XBONG are highly obscured AGNs. However, ∼50% of the XBONGs are not obscured and have X-ray colors harder than those of normal galaxies. Some of these XBONGs have spatially extended X-ray emission. These characteristics suggest that they may be unidentified galaxy groups and clusters. Using the X-ray luminosity functions of QSOs, galaxies, groups and clusters, we estimate the approximate fraction of extended XBONGs to be
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