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  • THE CHANDRA COSMOS LEGACY S...
    Allevato, V.; Civano, F.; Finoguenov, A.; Marchesi, S.; Shankar, F.; Zamorani, G.; Hasinger, G.; Salvato, M.; Miyaji, T.; Gilli, R.; Cappelluti, N.; Brusa, M.; Suh, H.; Lanzuisi, G.; Trakhtenbrot, B.; Griffiths, R.; Vignali, C.; Schawinski, K.; Karim, A.

    The Astrophysical journal, 11/2016, Letnik: 832, Številka: 1
    Journal Article

    ABSTRACT We present the measurement of the projected and redshift-space two-point correlation function (2pcf) of the new catalog of Chandra COSMOS-Legacy active galactic nucleus (AGN) at 2.9 ≤ z ≤ 5.5 ( 〈 L bol 〉 ∼ 1046 erg s−1) using the generalized clustering estimator based on phot-z probability distribution functions in addition to any available spec-z. We model the projected 2pcf, estimated using πmax = 200 h−1 Mpc with the two-halo term and we derive a bias at z ∼ 3.4 equal to b = 6.6 − 0.55 + 0.60 , which corresponds to a typical mass of the hosting halos of log Mh = 12.83 − 0.11 + 0.12 h−1 M . A similar bias is derived using the redshift-space 2pcf, modeled including the typical phot-z error z = 0.052 of our sample at z ≥ 2.9. Once we integrate the projected 2pcf up to πmax = 200 h−1 Mpc, the bias of XMM and Chandra COSMOS at z = 2.8 used in Allevato et al. is consistent with our results at higher redshifts. The results suggest only a slight increase of the bias factor of COSMOS AGNs at z 3 with the typical hosting halo mass of moderate-luminosity AGNs almost constant with redshift and equal to log Mh = 12.92 − 0.18 + 0.13 at z = 2.8 and log Mh = 12.83 − 0.11 + 0.12 at z ∼ 3.4, respectively. The observed redshift evolution of the bias of COSMOS AGNs implies that moderate-luminosity AGNs still inhabit group-sized halos at z 3, but slightly less massive than observed in different independent studies using X-ray AGNs at z ≤ 2.