Identifications and Photometric Redshifts of the 2 Ms Chandra Deep Field-South Sources
Abstract
[Abridged] We present reliable multiwavelength identifications and high-quality photometric redshifts for the 462 X-ray sources in the ~2 Ms Chandra Deep Field-South. Source identifications are carried out using deep optical-to-radio multiwavelength catalogs, and are then combined to create lists of primary and secondary counterparts for the X-ray sources. We identified reliable counterparts for 446 (96.5%) of the X-ray sources, with an expected false-match probability of ~6.2%. A likelihood-ratio method is used for source matching, which effectively reduces the false-match probability at faint magnitudes compared to a simple error-circle matching method. We construct a master photometric catalog for the identified X-ray sources including up to 42 bands of UV-to-infrared data, and then calculate their photometric redshifts (photo-z's). The reliability of the photo-z's is evaluated using the subsample of 220 sources with secure spectroscopic redshifts. We achieve an accuracy of ~1% [|Delta z|/(1+z)] and an outlier fraction of ~1.4% for sources with spectroscopic redshifts. We performed blind tests to derive a more realistic estimate of the photo-z quality for sources without spectroscopic redshifts. We expect there are ~9% outliers for the relatively brighter sources (R<26), and the outlier fraction will increase to ~15-25% for the fainter sources (R>26). The typical photo-z accuracy is ~6-7%. The outlier fraction and photo-z accuracy do not appear to have a redshift dependence (for z~0-4). These photo-z's appear to be the best obtained so far for faint X-ray sources, and they have been significantly (>50%) improved compared to previous estimates of the photo-z's for the X-ray sources in the ~2 Ms Chandra Deep Field-North and ~1 Ms Chandra Deep Field-South.
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@article{arxiv.1002.3154,
title = {Identifications and Photometric Redshifts of the 2 Ms Chandra Deep Field-South Sources},
author = {B. Luo and W. N. Brandt and Y. Q. Xue and M. Brusa and D. M. Alexander and F. E. Bauer and A. Comastri and A. Koekemoer and B. D. Lehmer and V. Mainieri and D. A. Rafferty and D. P. Schneider and J. D. Silverman and C. Vignali},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1002.3154},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
ApJS accepted. Minor updates compared to the submitted version. 22 pages, 15 figures. Catalogs may be requested from [email protected]