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VVDS 1型AGN样品:光度函数的暗淡端

The VVDS type-1 AGN sample: The faint end of the luminosity function

A. Bongiorno, G. Zamorani, I. Gavignaud, B. Marano, S. Paltani, G. Mathez, J. P. Picat, M. Cirasuolo, F. Lamareille, D. Bottini, B. Garilli, V. Le Brun, O. Le F… 展开作者

A. Bongiorno, G. Zamorani, I. Gavignaud, B. Marano, S. Paltani, G. Mathez, J. P. Picat, M. Cirasuolo, F. Lamareille, D. Bottini, B. Garilli, V. Le Brun, O. Le Fevre, D. Maccagni, R. Scaramella, M. Scodeggio, L. Tresse, G. Vettolani, A. Zanichelli, C. Adami, S. Arnouts, S. Bardelli, M. Bolzonella, A. Cappi, S. Charlot, P. Ciliegi, T. Contini, S. Foucaud, P. Franzetti, L. Guzzo, O. Ilbert, A. Iovino, H. J. McCracken, C. Marinon, A. Mazure, B. Meneux, R. Merighi, R. Pello', A. Pollo, L. Pozzetti, M. Radovich, E. Zucca, E. Hatziminaoglou, M. Polletta, M. Bondi, J. Brinchmann, O. Cucciati, S. de la Torre, L. Gregorini, Y. Mellier, P. Merluzzi, S. Temporin, D. Vergani, C. J. Walcher

摘要:

在Gavignaud等人2006年的论文中,我们介绍了从VIMOS-VLT深度巡天(VVDS)的第一个历元数据中获得的第一类活动星系核(AGN)样本。该样品由130个红移至z=5和17.5< I <24.0的微弱、宽线活动星系核组成。本文给出了从该样品得到的z=3.6以下的光学亮度函数的测量结果,并将我们的结果与以前较亮样品在低红移和高红移下的结果进行了比较。我们的数据,比以前的光学调查暗一个以上的星等,使我们能够限制光度函数的微弱部分高红移。通过将我们微弱的VVDS样本与从SDSS DR 3中提取的明亮AGN的大样本相结合(Richards等人,2006 b)和测试一些不同的演化模型,我们发现,更好地代表组合光度函数的模型,在广泛的红移和光度,是一个光度依赖的密度演化(LDDE)模型,类似于那些来自主要的X-巡天。这样的参数化使得活动星系核空间密度峰值的红移可以作为光度的函数而变化,并解释了我们在1.0< z <1.5处发现的过量的微弱活动星系核。在此模型的基础上,我们发现,第一次从光学选择的样品的分析,活动星系核空间密度的峰值显着向低红移去低光度的对象。这一结果,已经发现在一些X射线选定的样本的活动星系核,是一致的“活动星系核宇宙缩小”的情况下,更明亮的活动星系核的密度,可能与更大质量的黑洞,峰值早在宇宙的历史,比低光度的。

英文摘要:

In a previous paper (Gavignaud et al. 2006), we presented the type-1 Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) sample obtained from the first epoch data of the VIMOS-VLT Deep Survey (VVDS). The sample consists of 130 faint, broad-line AGN with redshift up to z=5 and 17.5< I <24.0, selected on the basis of their spectra. In this paper we present the measurement of the Optical Luminosity Function up to z=3.6 derived from this sample, we compare our results with previous results from brighter samples both at low and at high redshift. Our data, more than one magnitude fainter than previous optical surveys, allow us to constrain the faint part of the luminosity function up to high redshift. By combining our faint VVDS sample with the large sample of bright AGN extracted from the SDSS DR3 (Richards et al., 2006b) and testing a number of different evolutionary models, we find that the model which better represents the combined luminosity functions, over a wide range of redshift and luminosity, is a luminosity dependent density evolution (LDDE) model, similar to those derived from the major X-surveys. Such a parameterization allows the redshift of the AGN space density peak to change as a function of luminosity and explains the excess of faint AGN that we find at 1.0< z <1.5. On the basis of this model we find, for the first time from the analysis of optically selected samples, that the peak of the AGN space density shifts significantly towards lower redshift going to lower luminosity objects. This result, already found in a number of X-ray selected samples of AGN, is consistent with a scenario of "AGN cosmic downsizing", in which the density of more luminous AGN, possibly associated to more massive black holes, peaks earlier in the history of the Universe, than that of low luminosity ones.

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