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This is the third paper in a series that reports on our investigation of the clustering properties of AGNs identified in the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS) and Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). In this paper, we extend the redshift range to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Mirko Krumpe , Takamitsu Miyaji , Alison L. Coil , Hector Aceves

We present measurements of the galaxy cluster X-ray Luminosity Function (XLF) from the Wide Angle ROSAT Pointed Survey (WARPS) and quantify its evolution. WARPS is a serendipitous survey of the central region of ROSAT pointed observations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 L. A. Koens , B. J. Maughan , L. R. Jones , H. Ebeling , D. J. Horner , E. S. Perlman , S. Phillipps , C. A. Scharf

We present the results from a detailed X-ray variability analysis of 66 AGN in the Lockman Hole, which have optical spectroscopic identifications. We compare, quantitatively, their variability properties with the properties of local AGN,…

We detect and study the properties of faint radio AGN in Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs). The LRG sample comprises 760,000 objects from a catalog of LRG photometric redshifts constructed from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) imaging data,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 J. A. Hodge , G. R. Zeimann , R. H. Becker , R. L. White

The work in this paper aims at determining the evolution and possible co-evolution of radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and their cores via their radio luminosity functions (i.e., total and core RLF respectively). Using a large…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Zunli Yuan , Jiancheng Wang

Following previous work, we further confirm that the cosmic evolution of steep-spectrum radio-loud AGNs (active galactic nuclei) can be reproduced by a simple combination of density evolution (DE) and luminosity evolution (LE). This mixture…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-31 Zunli Yuan , Jiancheng Wang , Ming Zhou , Longhua Qin , Jirong Mao

This paper presents a new grid-based method for investigating the evolution of the steep-spectrum radio luminosity function, with the aim of quantifying the high-redshift cut-off suggested by previous work. To achieve this, the Combined…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 E. E. Rigby , P. N. Best , M. H. Brookes , J. A. Peacock , J. S. Dunlop , H. J. A. Röttgering , J. V. Wall , L. Ker

The X-ray luminosity function (XLF) of galaxies is dominated by AGN (classified by their optical spectra) above Lx=10**42 erg/s, below this value by normal galaxies. The X-ray flux of AGN at low X-ray luminosity therefore contains…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Lehmann , G. Hasinger , A. D. Schwope , Th. Boller

We present optical spectroscopic identification of sources identified in the BeppoSAX MECS fields of the High Energy LLarge Area Survey (HELLAS). In total 62 sources from a sample of 115 brighter than F_{5-10keV}>5x10^{-14} cgs have been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. La Franca , F. Fiore , C. Vignali , A. Comastri , F. Pompilio , HELLAS consortium

We use highly spectroscopically complete deep and wide-area Chandra surveys to determine the cosmic evolution of hard X-ray-selected AGNs. We determine hard X-ray luminosity functions (HXLFs) for all spectral types and for broad-line AGNs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. J. Barger , L. L. Cowie , R. F. Mushotzky , Y. Yang , W. -H. Wang , A. T. Steffen , P. Capak

We measure the redshift-dependent luminosity function and the comoving radial density of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 1 (SDSS DR1). Both measurements indicate that the apparent number density of bright galaxies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jon Loveday

In this proceedings paper, I overview the current status of the X-ray luminosity function of AGNs in the soft (0.5-2 keV) band, extended using XMM-Newton and Chandra survey data. We found that the number density of low luminosity AGNs peaks…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Takamitsu Miyaji

In the deepest optically identified X-ray survey yet performed, we have identified 32 X-ray selected QSOs to a flux limit of 2x10^{-15} erg cm^{-2} s^{-1} (0.5-2 keV). The survey, performed with the ROSAT PSPC, has 89% spectroscopic…

We investigate the clustering properties of ~1550 broad-line active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at <z>=0.25 detected in the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS) through their measured cross-correlation function with ~46,000 Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-26 Mirko Krumpe , Takamitsu Miyaji , Alison L. Coil

In order to study the evolution of the relative fraction of obscured Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) we constructed the largest sample to date of AGN selected in hard X-rays. The full sample contains 2341 X-ray-selected AGN, roughly 4 times…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ezequiel Treister , C. Megan Urry

Studies of the high-redshift rest-frame ultraviolet (UV) luminosity functions (LFs) have typically treated the star-forming galaxy and active galactic nuclei (AGN) populations separately, as they have different survey depth and area…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-26 Steven L. Finkelstein , Micaela B. Bagley

We explore the evolution with redshift of the rest-frame colours and space densities of AGN hosts (relative to normal galaxies) to shed light on the dominant mechanism that triggers accretion onto supermassive black holes as a function of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 A. Georgakakis , A. L. Coil , C. N. A. Willmer , K. Nandra , D. D. Kocevski , M. C. Cooper , D. J. Rosario , D. C. Koo , J. R. Trump , S. Juneau

We present a determination of the local (z=0) luminosity function of optically selected type 1 (broad-line) Active Galactic Nuclei. Our primary resource is the Hamburg/ESO Survey (HES), which provides a well-defined sample of more than 300…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Andreas Schulze , Lutz Wisotzki , Bernd Husemann

This paper presents the first measurement of the radio luminosity function of 'jet-mode' (radiatively-inefficient) radio-AGN out to z=1, in order to investigate the cosmic evolution of radio-AGN feedback. Eight radio source samples are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 P. N. Best , L. M. Ker , C. Simpson , E. E. Rigby , J. Sabater

SMBHs are theorised to undergo significant growth in the early Universe, however, the X-ray Luminosity Function (XLF), used as a principal tracer of the SMBH accretion density, lacks observational constraints at z>6, until now. We present…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-23 C. L. Barlow-Hall , J. Aird