Chandra Large-Area Synoptic X-Ray Survey of Lockman Hole-NW

There are B, V, R, I, and z' photometry for 521 (99%) of the 525 sources in the X-ray catalog and spectroscopic redshifts for 271 (52%), including 20 stars. The authors did not find evidence for redshift groupings of the X-ray sources, like those found in the Chandra Deep Field surveys, because of the larger solid angle covered by this survey. They separated the X-ray sources by optical spectral type and examined the colors, apparent and absolute magnitudes, and redshift distributions for the broad-line and non-broad-line active galactic nuclei.

Combining their wide-area survey with other Chandra and XMM-Newton hard X-ray surveys, they find a definite lack of luminous, high accretion rate sources at z < 1, consistent with previous observations that showed that super-massive black hole growth is dominated at low redshifts by sources with low accretion rates. This table was created by the HEASARC in May 2005 from the merger of 3 CDS tables, corresponding to Tables 2 and 3 from Yang et al. 2005 and Table 1 of Steffen et al. (2005): <p> <pre> J/AJ/128/1501/table2.dat J/AJ/128/1501/table3.dat J/AJ/128/1483/table1.dat </pre> This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .