THE CHANDRA COSMOS LEGACY SURVEY : OPTICAL/IR IDENTIFICATIONS
Abstract
We present the catalog of optical and infrared counterparts of the Chandra. COSMOS-Legacy. Survey, a 4.6 Ms Chandra. program on the 2.2 deg(2) of the COSMOS field, combination of 56 new overlapping observations obtained in Cycle 14 with the previous C-COSMOS survey. In this Paper we report the i, K, and 3.6 mu m identifications of the 2273 X-ray point sources detected in the new Cycle 14 observations. We use the likelihood ratio technique to derive the association of optical/infrared (IR) counterparts for 97% of the X-ray sources. We also update the information for the 1743 sources detected in C-COSMOS, using new K and 3.6 mu 3m information not available when the C-COSMOS analysis was performed. The final catalog contains 4016 X-ray sources, 97% of which have an optical/IR counterpart and a photometric redshift, while; similar or equal to 54% of the sources have a spectroscopic redshift. The full catalog, including spectroscopic and photometric redshifts and optical and X-ray properties described here in detail, is available online. We study several X-ray to optical (X/O) properties: with our large statistics we put better constraints on the X/O flux ratio locus, finding a shift toward faint optical magnitudes in both soft and hard X-ray band. We confirm the existence of a correlation between X/O and the the 2-10 keV luminosity for Type 2 sources. We extend to low luminosities the analysis of the correlation between the fraction of obscured AGNs and the hard band luminosity, finding a different behavior between the optically and X-ray classified obscured fraction.Peer reviewe- Article
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- catalogs
- cosmology: observations
- galaxies: active
- galaxies: evolution
- surveys
- X-rays: general
- ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI
- X-RAY SOURCES
- SUPERMASSIVE BLACK-HOLES
- WIDE-FIELD SURVEY
- SPECTRAL ENERGY-DISTRIBUTIONS
- STAR-FORMING GALAXIES
- MEDIUM-SENSITIVITY SURVEY
- EVOLUTION SURVEY COSMOS
- COMPTON-THICK AGN
- ROSAT DEEP SURVEY
- 115 Astronomy, Space science