The eROSITA Final Equatorial-Depth Survey (eFEDS): Presenting The Demographics of X-ray Emission From Normal Galaxies
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2021-06-28
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Vulic, N. et al. "The eROSITA Final Equatorial-Depth Survey (eFEDS): Presenting the demographics of X-ray emission from normal galaxies." A&A, 661 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202141641.
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The eROSITA Final Equatorial Depth Survey (eFEDS), completed during the calibration and performance verification phase of the eROSITA instrument on SpectrumRoentgenGamma, delivers data at and beyond the final depth of the four-year eROSITA all-sky survey (eRASS:8), f₀.₅₋₂ ₖₑᵥ = 1.1×10⁻¹⁴ erg s⁻¹ cm², over 140 deg². It provides the first view of normal galaxy X-ray emission from X-ray binaries (XRBs) and the hot interstellar medium at the full depth of eRASS:8. We use the Heraklion Extragalactic Catalogue (HECATE) of galaxies to correlate with eFEDS X-ray sources and identify 94 X-ray detected normal galaxies. We classify galaxies as star-forming, early-type, composite, and AGN using SDSS and 6dF optical spectroscopy. The eFEDS field harbours 37 normal galaxies: 36 late-type (star-forming) galaxies and 1 early-type galaxy. There are 1.9 times as many normal galaxies as predicted by scaling relations via SIXTE simulations, with an overabundance of late-type galaxies and a dearth of early-type galaxies. Dwarf galaxies with high specific star formation rate (SFR) have elevated LX/SFR when compared with specific SFR and metallicity, indicating an increase in XRB emission due to low-metallicity. We expect that eRASS:8 will detect 12,500 normal galaxies, the majority of which will be star-forming, with the caveat that there are unclassified sources in eFEDS and galaxy catalogue incompleteness issues that could increase the actual number of detected galaxies over these current estimates. eFEDS observations detected a rare population of galaxies -- the metal-poor dwarf starbursts -- that do not follow known scaling relations. eRASS is expected to discover significant numbers of these high-redshift analogues, which are important for studying the heating of the intergalactic medium at high-redshift.