The Chandra Deep Field North Survey. IX. Extended X-ray Sources

Abstract

The ~1 Ms Chandra Deep Field North observation is used to study the extended X-ray sources in the region surrounding the Hubble Deep Field North (HDF-N), yielding the most sensitive probe of extended X-ray emission at cosmological distances to date. A total of six such sources are detected, the majority of which align with small numbers of optically bright galaxies. Their angular sizes, band ratios, and X-ray luminosities -- assuming they lie at the same distances as the galaxies coincident with the X-ray emission -- are generally consistent with the properties found for nearby groups of galaxies. One source is notably different and is likely to be a poor-to-moderate X-ray cluster at high redshift (i.e., z > 0.7). We are also able to place strong constraints on the optically detected cluster of galaxies ClG 1236+6215 at z=0.85 and the wide-angle-tail radio galaxy VLA J123725.7+621128 at z~1-2. With rest-frame 0.5--2.0 keV X-ray luminosities of <(3-15)e42 ergs s^{-1}, the environments of both sources are either likely to have a significant deficit of hot intra-cluster gas compared to local clusters of galaxies, or they are X-ray groups. We find the surface density of extended X-ray sources in this observation to be 167 (+97,-67) deg^{-2} at a limiting soft-band flux of approximately 3e-16 ergs s^{-1} cm^{-2}. No evolution in the X-ray luminosity function of clusters is needed to explain this value. (Abridged)

16 pages, 14 figures (8 color), LaTeX emulateapj5.sty, accepted for publication by the Astronomical Journal. Manuscript with full resolution embedded images available at http://www.astro.psu.edu/users/niel/hdf/hdf-chandra.html

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