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A Good Hard Look at Cosmic Supermassive Black Hole Growth

Date:
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Location:
Zoom
Speaker(s) / Presenter(s):
W.N. Brandt (Penn State University) for the Chandra Deep Fields Team

The 7 Ms Chandra X-ray Observatory exposure on the Chandra

Deep Field-South (CDF-S) has provided the most sensitive

extragalactic X-ray survey by a wide margin. About 1050

X-ray sources have been detected, primarily distant active

galactic nuclei (AGNs) and starburst/normal galaxies. The

unmatched deep multiwavelength coverage for these sources

allows superb follow-up investigations, revealing the

details of supermassive black hole growth over most of

cosmic time. I will briefly describe the sources in the

7 Ms CDF-S and highlight some exciting science results.

The latter will include (1) evidence for black-hole vs.

bulge co-evolution in the distant universe; (2) constraints

on supermassive black hole growth in the first galaxies as

revealed by direct detection and stacking; and (3) the

discovery of representatives of a new population of faint,

fast X-ray transient sources. Finally, I will discuss some

future prospects for X-ray surveys of AGNs in the distant

universe, including the ongoing 5 Ms XMM-SERVS survey of

the LSST Deep Drilling Fields and new X-ray missions.