X-ray luminosity-star formation rate scaling relation: Constraints from the eROSITA Final Equatorial Depth Survey (eFEDS)

Abstract

We present measurements of the relation between X-ray luminosity and star formation activity for a sample of normal galaxies spanning the redshift range between 0 and 0.25. We use data acquired by SRG/eROSITA for the performance and verification phase program called eROSITA Final Equatorial Depth Survey (eFEDS). The eFEDS galaxies are observed in the 0.2-2.3 keV band. Making use of a wide range of ancillary data, spanning from the ultraviolet (UV) to mid-infrared wavelengths (MIR), we estimated the star formation rate (SFR) and stellar mass ($M_{star}$) of 888 galaxies, using Code Investigating GALaxy Emission (CIGALE). We divided our sample of normal galaxies in star-forming (SFGs) and quiescent galaxies according to their position on the main sequence. We confirm a linear correlation between the X-ray luminosity and the SFR for our sample of SFGs, as shown previously in the literature. However, we find this relation to be strongly biased by the completeness limit of the eFEDS survey. Correcting for completeness, we find the fitted relation to be consistent with the literature. We also investigated the relation between X-ray emission from both LMXBs and HMXBs populations with $M_{star}$ and SFR, respectively. Correcting for completeness, we find our fitted relation to considerably scatter from the literature relation at high specific SFR ($SFR/M_{star}$). We conclude that without accounting for X-ray non-detections, it is not possible to employ eFEDS data to study the redshift evolution of the LMXBs and HMXBs contributions due to completeness issues. Furthermore, we find our sources to largely scatter from the expected Lx/SFR vs specific SFR relation at high redshift. We discuss the dependence of the scatter on the stellar mass, metallicity, or the globular cluster content of the galaxy.

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