AGN Populations in Large-volume X-Ray Surveys: Photometric Redshifts and Population Types Found in the Stripe 82X Survey

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Date Issued
2017
Author(s)
Ananna, Tonima Tasnim
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Salvato, Mara
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LaMassa, Stephanie
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Urry, C. Megan
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CAPPELLUTI, Nico
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Cardamone, Carolin
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Civano, Francesca
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Farrah, Duncan
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Gilfanov, Marat
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Glikman, Eilat
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Hamilton, Mark
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Kirkpatrick, Allison
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Merloni, Andrea
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Nandra, Kirpal
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Natarajan, Priyamvada
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Richards, Gordon T.
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Timlin, John
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Abstract
Multiwavelength surveys covering large sky volumes are necessary to obtain an accurate census of rare objects such as high-luminosity and/or high-redshift active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Stripe 82X is a 31.3 X-ray survey with Chandra and XMM-Newton observations overlapping the legacy Sloan Digital Sky Survey Stripe 82 field, which has a rich investment of multiwavelength coverage from the ultraviolet to the radio. The wide-area nature of this survey presents new challenges for photometric redshifts for AGNs compared to previous work on narrow-deep fields because it probes different populations of objects that need to be identified and represented in the library of templates. Here we present an updated X-ray plus multiwavelength matched catalog, including Spitzer counterparts, and estimated photometric redshifts for 5961 (96% of a total of 6181) X-ray sources that have a normalized median absolute deviation, σnmad=0.06, and an outlier fraction, η = 13.7%. The populations found in this survey and the template libraries used for photometric redshifts provide important guiding principles for upcoming large-area surveys such as eROSITA and 3XMM (in X-ray) and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (optical).
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850
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1
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66
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0004-637X
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2017ApJ...850...66A
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