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We report on new Chandra exploratory observations of six candidate Type 2 quasars at z=0.49-0.73 selected among the most [OIII] luminous emitters from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Under the assumption that [OIII] is a proxy for the intrinsic luminosity of the central source, their predicted rest-frame X-ray luminosities are L(2-10keV)~10^45 erg/s. For two of the targets, the photon statistics are good enough to allow for basic X-ray spectral analyses, which indicate the presence of intrinsic absorption (~10^{22-23} cm^-2) and luminous X-ray emission (L_X>10^44 erg/s). Of the remaining four targets, two are detected with only a few (3-6) X-ray counts, and two are undetected by Chandra. If these four sources have the large intrinsic X-ray luminosities predicted by the [OIII] emission, then their nuclei must be heavily obscured (N_H>few 10^23 cm^-2) and some might be Compton thick (N_H>1.5 10^24 cm^-2). We also present the results for two Type 2 quasar candidates serendipitously lying in the fields of the Chandra targets, and provide an up-to-date compilation of the X-ray properties of eight additional SDSS Type 2 quasars from archival Chandra and XMM-Newton observations (five with moderate-quality X-ray data). The combined sample of 16 SDSS Type 2 quasars (10 X-ray detections) provides further evidence that a considerable fraction of optically selected Type 2 quasars are obscured in the X-ray band (at least all the objects with moderate-quality X-ray spectra), lending further support to the findings presented in Vignali, Alexander and Comastri (2004a) and unification schemes of Active Galactic Nuclei, and confirms the reliability of [OIII] emission in predicting the X-ray emission in obscured quasars.
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