.Powerful obscured AGN in Chandra cluster fields.pdfVIP

1 POWERFUL OBSCURED AGN IN CHANDRA CLUSTER FIELDS P.Gandhi, A.C.Fabian, and C.S.Crawford Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, United Kingdom 2 Abstract its higher effective area at 10 keV, has also begun to de- 0 0 Models for the origin of the hard X-ray background liver results (Hasinger et al. 2001; Barcons et al. 2001) and 2 have suggested that sources with the most accretion ac- the essential Chandra findings are confirmed with many n tivity lie hidden in highly obscured AGN. We report on new Type II AGN being found (eg, Lehmann et al. 2001). a our study of hard, serendipitous sources in the fields of The individual X-ray spectra of the hard sources are J Chandra clusters with fluxes close to the turn-over in the flat enough to account for the HXRB spectral slope of 0.4 1 3 source-counts. These include two Type II quasars with (Marshall et al. 1980; Gruber et al. 1999), and the inte- 45 −1 measured X-ray luminosities 10 erg s and column- grated flux can contribute between ∼ 70 − 105% of the 1 densities 1023 cm−2, one possibly being Compton-thick. HXRB intensity. The ambiguity in the absolute known in- v Both show indications of redshifted Fe Kα line emission. tensity is still to be resolved. Its cause is cross-calibration 3 Radiative transfer modelling of the broad-band spectrum mismatches between various X-ray missions and/or cos- 4 5 of