The Chandra Deep Field-North Survey and the cosmic X-ray background

W. Nielsen Brandt; David M. Alexander; Franz E. Bauer; Ann E. Hornschemeier

doi:10.1098/rsta.2002.1053

The Chandra Deep Field-North Survey and the cosmic X-ray background

W. Nielsen Brandt, David M. Alexander, Franz E. Bauer, Ann E. Hornschemeier

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Chandra has performed a 1.4 Ms survey centred on the Hubble Deep Field-North (HDF-N), probing the X-ray Universe 55-550 times deeper than was possible with pre-Chandra missions. We describe the detected point and extended X-ray sources and discuss their overall multi-wavelength (optical, infrared, submillimetre and radio) properties. Special attention is paid to the HDF-N X-ray sources, luminous infrared starburst galaxies, optically faint X-ray sources and high-to-extreme redshift active galactic nuclei. We also describe how stacking analyses have been used to probe the average X-ray-emission properties of normal and starburst galaxies at cosmologically interesting distances. Finally, we discuss plans to extend the survey and argue that a 5-10 Ms Chandra survey would lay key groundwork for future missions such as XEUS and Generation-X.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	2057-2075
Number of pages	19
Journal	Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
Volume	360
Issue number	1798
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2002.1053
State	Published - Sep 15 2002

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