Demography of high redshift AGN
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cdfschandracountsdetectionsfieldhighnumberredshift
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High redshift AGN holds the key to understand the early structure formation and to probe the Universe during its infancy. We review the latest searches for high-z AGN 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 of z~6 galaxies recently reported by Treister and collaborators. We present z>3 X-ray sources number counts in the 0.5-2 keV band obtained joining CDFS faint detections 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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