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Active galactic nuclei and their large-scale structure

Authors :
Comparat, J.
Merloni, A.
Salvato, M.
Nandra, K.
Boller, T.
Georgakakis, A.
Finoguenov, A.
Dwelly, T.
Buchner, J.
Del Moro, A.
Clerc, N.
Wang, Y.
Zhao, G.
Prada, F.
Yepes, G.
Brusa, M.
Krumpe, M.
Liu, T.
University of Helsinki, Department of Physics
Publication Year :
2019

Abstract

In the context of the upcoming SRG/eROSITA survey, we present an N-body simulation-based mock catalogue for X-ray-selected active galactic nucleus (AGN) samples. The model reproduces the observed hard X-ray AGN luminosity function (XLF) and the soft X-ray logN-logS from redshift 0 to 6. The XLF is reproduced to within +/- 5 per cent and the logN-logS to within +/- 20 per cent. We develop a joint X-ray - optical extinction and classification model. We adopt a set of empirical spectral energy distributions to predict observed magnitudes in the UV, optical, and NIR. With the latest eROSITA all sky survey sensitivity model, we create a high-fidelity full-sky mock catalogue of X-ray AGN. It predicts their distributions in right ascension, declination, redshift, and fluxes. Using empirical medium resolution optical spectral templates and an exposure time calculator, we find that 1.1 x 10(6) (4 x 10(5)) fibre-hours are needed to follow-up spectroscopically from the ground the detected X-ray AGN with an optical magnitude 21

Details

Language :
English
Database :
OpenAIRE
Accession number :
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