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Title: | X-Ray Spectral Analyses of AGNs from the 7Ms Chandra Deep Field-South Survey: The Distribution, Variability, and Evolutions of AGN Obscuration | Authors: | Liu, Teng TOZZI, Paolo Wang, Jun-Xian Brandt, William N. VIGNALI, CRISTIAN Xue, Yongquan Schneider, Donald P. COMASTRI, Andrea Yang, Guang Bauer, Franz E. Paolillo, Maurizio Luo, Bin GILLI, Roberto Wang, Q. Daniel Giavalisco, Mauro Ji, Zhiyuan Alexander, David M. MAINIERI, VINCENZO Shemmer, Ohad Koekemoer, Anton RISALITI, Guido |
Issue Date: | 2017 | Journal: | THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES | Number: | 232 | Issue: | 1 | First Page: | 8 | Abstract: | We present a detailed spectral analysis of the brightest active galactic nuclei (AGNs) identified in the 7Ms Chandra Deep Field-South (CDF-S) survey over a time span of 16 years. Using a model of an intrinsically absorbed power-law plus reflection, with possible soft excess and narrow Fe Kα line, we perform a systematic X-ray spectral analysis, both on the total 7Ms exposure and in four different periods with lengths of 2-21 months. With this approach, we not only present the power-law slopes, column densities {N}<SUB>{{H</SUB>}}, observed fluxes, and absorption-corrected 2-10 keV luminosities L <SUB> X </SUB> for our sample of AGNs, but also identify significant spectral variabilities among them on timescales of years. We find that the {N}<SUB>{{H</SUB>}} variabilities can be ascribed to two different types of mechanisms, either flux-driven or flux-independent. We also find that the correlation between the narrow Fe line EW and {N}<SUB>{{H</SUB>}} can be well explained by the continuum suppression with increasing {N}<SUB>{{H</SUB>}}. Accounting for the sample incompleteness and bias, we measure the intrinsic distribution of {N}<SUB>{{H</SUB>}} for the CDF-S AGN population and present reselected subsamples that are complete with respect to {N}<SUB>{{H</SUB>}}. The {N}<SUB>{{H</SUB>}}-complete subsamples enable us to decouple the dependences of {N}<SUB>{{H</SUB>}} on L <SUB> X </SUB> and on redshift. Combining our data with those from C-COSMOS, we confirm the anticorrelation between the average {N}<SUB>{{H</SUB>}} and L <SUB> X </SUB> of AGN, and find a significant increase of the AGN-obscured fraction with redshift at any luminosity. The obscured fraction can be described as {f}<SUB>obscured</SUB>}≈ 0.42 {(1+z)} 0.60 | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/26693 | URL: | https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.00657 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/aa7847 |
ISSN: | 0067-0049 | DOI: | 10.3847/1538-4365/aa7847 | Bibcode ADS: | 2017ApJS..232....8L | Fulltext: | open |
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