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Hindawi, Advances in Astronomy, (2012), p. 1-7, 2012

DOI: 10.1155/2012/271502

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Demography of High-Redshift AGN

Journal article published in 2012 by Fabrizio Fiore ORCID, Simonetta Puccetti ORCID, Smita Mathur
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

High-redshift AGN holds the key to understanding early structure formation and to probe the Universe during its infancy. We review the latest searches for high-zAGN in the deepest X-ray field so far, the Chandra Deep Field South (CDFS) 4 Msecond exposure. We do not confirm the positive detection of a signal in the stacked Chandra images at the position ofz~6galaxies recently reported by Treister and collaborators (2011). We presentz>3X-ray sources number counts in the 0.5–2 keV band, obtained joining CDFS faint detections (see Fiore et al. (2011)), with Chandra-COSMOS and XMM-COSMOS detections. We use these number counts to make predictions for surveys with three mission concepts: Athena, WFXT, and a Super-Chandra.

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