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The XMM deep survey in the CDFS. XI. X-ray spectral properties of 185 bright sources

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2020
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Iwasawa, K.
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Vignali, C.
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Brandt, W. N.
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Brusa, M.
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Carrera, F. J.
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Ranalli, P.
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Mainieri, V.
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Georgantopoulos, I.
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Puccetti, S.
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Abstract
We present the X-ray spectra of 185 bright sources detected in the XMM-Newton deep survey of the Chandra Deep Field South with the three EPIC cameras combined. The 2-10 keV flux limit of the sample is 2 × 10-15 erg s-1 cm-2. The sources are distributed over a redshift range of z = 0.1-3.8, with 11 new X-ray redshift measurements included. A spectral analysis was performed using a simple model to obtain absorbing column densities, rest-frame 2-10 keV luminosities, and Fe K line properties of 180 sources at z > 0.4. Obscured AGN are found to be more abundant toward higher redshifts. Using the XMM-Newton data alone, seven Compton-thick AGN candidates were identified, which set the Compton-thick AGN fraction at ≃4%. An exploratory spectral inspection method with two rest-frame X-ray colours and an Fe line strength indicator was introduced and tested against the results from spectral fitting. This method works reasonably well to characterise a spectral shape and can be useful for a pre-selection of Compton-thick AGN candidates. We found six objects exhibiting broad Fe K lines out of 21 unobscured AGN of best data quality, implying a detection rate of ∼30%. Five redshift spikes, each with more than six sources, are identified in the redshift distribution of the X-ray sources. Contrary to the overall trend, the sources at the two higher redshift spikes, at z = 1.61 and z = 2.57, exhibit a puzzlingly low obscuration.

Full Table 1 and data for Fig. 2 are only available at the CDS via anonymous ftp to http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr (ftp://130.79.128.5) or via http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/639/A51

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639
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A51
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