Optical and Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of a High-Redshift, Hard X-ray Emitting Spiral Galaxy

Abstract

We present optical and near-infrared Keck spectroscopy of CXOHDFN J123635.6+621424 (hereafter HDFX28), a hard X-ray source at a redshift of z = 2.011 in the flanking fields of the Hubble Deep Field-North (HDF-N). HDFX28 is a red source (R - K_s = 4.74) with extended steep-spectrum (alpha > 0.87) microjansky radio emission and significant emission (441 microJy) at 15 microns. Accordingly, initial investigations prompted the interpretation that HDFX28 is powered by star formation. Subsequent Chandra imaging, however, revealed hard (Gamma = 0.30) X-ray emission indicative of absorbed AGN activity, implying that HDFX28 is an obscured, Type II AGN. The optical and near-infrared spectra presented herein corroborate this result; the near-infrared emission lines cannot be powered by star formation alone, and the optical emission lines indicate a buried AGN. HDFX28 is identified with a face-on, moderately late-type spiral galaxy. Multi-wavelength morphological studies of the HDF-N have heretofore revealed no galaxies with any kind of recognizable spiral structure beyond z > 2. We present a quantitative analysis of the morphology of HDFX28, and we find the measures of central concentration and asymmetry to be indeed consistent with those expected for a rare high-redshift spiral galaxy.

arXiv comment14 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication in the March 2003 Astronomical Journal

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