Obscured and Unobscured AGN Evolution and the X-ray background

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dc.creatorTreister, Ezequiel
dc.creatorUrry, C. Megan
dc.creatorLira, Paulina
dc.date2005-11-30
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T06:48:58Z
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dc.descriptionThe Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS) combines deep HST and Spitzer imaging with the deepest Chandra/XMM observations to probe obscured AGN at higher redshifts than previous multiwavelength surveys. We present a self-consistent implementation of the AGN unification paradigm, which postulates obscured AGN wherever there are unobscured AGN, to successfully explain the infrared, optical, and X-ray number counts of X-ray sources detected in the GOODS fields. Assuming either a constant ratio of obscured to unobscured AGN of 3:1 (the local value), or a ratio that decreases with luminosity, and including Compton-thick sources, we can explain the spectral shape and normalization of the extragalactic X-ray "background" as a superposition of unresolved AGN, predominantly at z~0.5-1.5 and L_x~10^43-10^44 ergs/s. The possible dependence of the obscured to unobscured ratio with redshift is not well constrained; present data allow it to decrease or increase substantially beyond z~1.
dc.description2 pages, 3 figures; to be published in the proceedings of "The X-ray Universe 2005" conference, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid, Spain
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0512008
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0512008
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/104162
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleObscured and Unobscured AGN Evolution and the X-ray background
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