Issue |
A&A
Volume 558, October 2013
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Article Number | A90 | |
Number of page(s) | 9 | |
Section | Extragalactic astronomy | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201321823 | |
Published online | 08 October 2013 |
AGN and QSOs in the eROSITA All-Sky Survey
II. The large-scale structure
1
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik (MPA),
Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 1,
85741
Garching,
Germany
e-mail:
alex@mpa-garching.mpg.de
2
Space Research Institute (IKI), Russian Academy of Sciences,
Profsoyuznaya ul.
84/32, 117997
Moscow,
Russia
3
Tartu Observatory, 61602
Tõravere,
Estonia
Received:
2
May
2013
Accepted:
22
August
2013
The four-year X-ray all-sky survey (eRASS) of the eROSITA telescope aboard the Spektrum-Roentgen-Gamma satellite will detect about 3 million active galactic nuclei (AGN) with a median redshift of z ≈ 1 and a typical luminosity of L0.5−2.0 keV ~ 1044 ergs-1. We show that this unprecedented AGN sample, complemented with redshift information, will supply us with outstanding opportunities for large-scale structure research. For the first time, detailed redshift- and luminosity-resolved studies of the bias factor for X-ray selected AGN will become possible. The eRASS AGN sample will not only improve the redshift- and luminosity resolution of these studies, but will also expand their luminosity range beyond L0.5−2.0 keV ~ 1044 ergs-1, thus enabling a direct comparison of the clustering properties of luminous X-ray AGN and optical quasars. These studies will dramatically improve our understanding of the AGN environment, triggering mechanisms, the growth of supermassive black holes and their co-evolution with dark matter halos. The eRASS AGN sample will become a powerful cosmological probe. It will enable detecting baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAOs) for the first time with X-ray selected AGN. With the data from the entire extragalactic sky, BAO will be detected at a ≳10σ confidence level in the full redshift range and with ~8σ confidence in the 0.8 < z < 2.0 range, which is currently not covered by any existing BAO surveys. To exploit the full potential of the eRASS AGN sample, photometric and spectroscopic surveys of large areas and a sufficient depth will be needed.
Key words: surveys / X-rays: general / quasars: general / galaxies: active / large-scale structure of Universe
© ESO, 2013
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