AAS 199th meeting, Washington, DC, January 2002
Session 148. Recent Results from Chandra Deep Surveys - II
Special Session Oral, Thursday, January 10, 2002, 2:00-3:30pm, International Ballroom Center

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[148.03] Submillimeter Properties of the 1 Ms Chandra Deep Field North X-ray Sample

A. T. Steffen, A. J. Barger (University of Wisconsin - Madison), L. L. Cowie (Institute for Astronomy), A. E. Hornschemeier, W. N. Brandt, G. P. Garmire (Penn State)

Obscured AGN have hard X-ray spectra and may be expected to have high FIR fluxes, due to dust re-emission of absorbed flux from soft X-rays to the NIR. At high redshifts (z > 1) this FIR dust emission will be redshifted into the submillimeter. We present submillimeter observations of 135 of the 370 X-ray sources in the 1 Ms Chandra Deep Field-North exposure. The error-weighted mean 850-micron flux of the sources is significant at 1.21 ± 0.27 mJy. These X-ray sources contribute about 15% of the extragalactic background light at 850-micron. The submillimeter excess is found to be the strongest in the optically faint X-ray sources that have radio detections at 20cm, which is consistent with these sources being obscured AGN at high redshift.


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