The Phoenix Deep Survey: the radio properties of the hard X-ray selected   sample
  The radio properties of hard (2-8keV) X-ray selected sources are explored by combining a single 50ks XMM-Newton pointing with the ultra-deep and homogeneous Phoenix radio (1.4GHz) survey (Hopkins et al. 2003). A total of 43 sources are detected above the X-ray flux limit f_X(2-8keV)=7.7e-15cgs with 14 of them exhibiting radio emission above ~40muJy (3sigma). The X-ray/radio matched population lies in the borderline between radio loud and quiet AGNs and comprises sources with both soft and hard X-ray spectral properties suggesting both obscured and unobscured systems. The spectroscopically identified sub-sample (total of 6 X-ray/radio matches) comprises narrow emission line AGNs (4) with hard X-ray spectral properties and broad line sources (2) with soft X-ray spectra. We find evidence that the fraction of X-ray/radio matches increases from ~20% for sources with rest-frame column density N_H<1e22cm^-2 to \~50% for more absorbed systems. Poor statistics however, limit the significance of the above result to the ~2sigma level. Also, the X-ray/radio matched sources have flatter coadded X-ray spectrum (Gamma=1.78^{+0.05}_{-0.03}) compared to sources without radio emission (Gamma=2.00^{+0.03}_{-0.04}). A possible explanation for the higher fraction of absorbed sources with radio emission at the muJy level is the presence of circum-nuclear starburst activity that both feeds and obscures the central engine. For a small sub-sample of z~0.4 radio emitting AGNs with N_H>1e22cm^-2 their combined spectrum exhibits a soft X-ray component that may be associated with star-formation activity, although other possibilities cannot be excluded. We also find that radio emitting AGNs make up about 13-20% of the hard-band X-ray background depending on the adopted normalisation. 
A. Georgakakis (1), A. M. Hopkins (2), J. Afonso (3), M. Sullivan (4),   B. Mobasher (5), L. E. Cram (6) ((1) NOA, (2) Pitts...