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Title: | Heavy X-ray obscuration in the most luminous galaxies discovered by WISE | Authors: | Vito, F. Brandt, W. N. Stern, D. Assef, R. J. Chen, C. -T. J. Brightman, M. COMASTRI, Andrea Eisenhardt, P. Garmire, G. P. Hickox, R. Lansbury, G. Tsai, C. -W. Walton, D. J. Wu, J. W. |
Issue Date: | 2018 | Journal: | MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY | Number: | 474 | Issue: | 4 | First Page: | 4528 | Abstract: | Hot dust-obscured galaxies (DOGs) are hyperluminous (L<SUB>8-1000 μm</SUB> > 10<SUP>13</SUP> L<SUB>☉</SUB>) infrared galaxies with extremely high (up to hundreds of K) dust temperatures. The sources powering both their extremely high luminosities and dust temperatures are thought to be deeply buried and rapidly accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs). Hot DOGs could therefore represent a key evolutionary phase in which the SMBH growth peaks. X-ray observations can be used to study their obscuration levels and luminosities. In this work, we present the X-ray properties of the 20 most luminous (L<SUB>bol</SUB> ≳ 10<SUP>14</SUP> L<SUB>☉</SUB>) known hot DOGs at z = 2-4.6. Five of them are covered by long-exposure (10-70 ks) Chandra and XMM-Newton observations, with three being X-ray detected, and we study their individual properties. One of these sources (W0116-0505) is a Compton-thick candidate, with column density N<SUB>H</SUB> = (1.0-1.5) × 10<SUP>24</SUP> cm<SUP>-2</SUP> derived from X-ray spectral fitting. The remaining 15 hot DOGs have been targeted by a Chandra snapshot (3.1 ks) survey. None of these 15 are individually detected; therefore, we applied a stacking analysis to investigate their average emission. From hardness ratio analysis, we constrained the average obscuring column density and intrinsic luminosity to be log N<SUB>H</SUB> (cm<SUP>-2</SUP>) > 23.5 and L<SUB>X</SUB> ≳ 10<SUP>44</SUP> erg s<SUP>-1</SUP>, which are consistent with results for individually detected sources. We also investigated the L<SUB>X</SUB>-L<SUB>6 μm</SUB> and L<SUB>X</SUB>-L<SUB>bol</SUB> relations, finding hints that hot DOGs are typically X-ray weaker than expected, although larger samples of luminous obscured quasi-stellar objects are needed to derive solid conclusions. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/27669 | URL: | https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/474/4/4528/4683276 | ISSN: | 0035-8711 | DOI: | 10.1093/mnras/stx3120 | Bibcode ADS: | 2018MNRAS.474.4528V | Fulltext: | open |
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