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在AGN宇宙缩小时期的低吸积率

Low accretion rates at the AGN cosmic downsizing epoch

A. Babic, L. Miller, M. J. Jarvis, T. J. Turner, D. M. Alexander, S. M. Croom

摘要:

内容:对活动星系核的X射线巡天显示出“宇宙缩小”,高光度天体的同动数密度在红移(z约为2)处比低光度星系核(z<1)处达到峰值。目的:我们测试是否缩小是由活动转向低质量黑洞吸积在近爱丁顿率,或吸积到超大质量黑洞的平均速率的变化。我们估算了钱德拉深场南z<1时活动星系核的X射线选择样本的黑洞质量和爱丁顿比,探讨了活动星系核宇宙缩小的时代。研究方法:黑洞质量估计从宿主星系恒星质量,这是估计从拟合到出版的光学和近红外测光,并从近红外光度,应用黑洞质量和宿主星系属性之间建立的相关性。这两种方法给出了一致的结果。可能的红移依赖的影响的比较和校准也发表了微弱的主机星系速度色散测量。结果如下:在我们的样本中,爱丁顿比的范围为10^{-5}到1,log(L_bol/L_Edd)的中值为-2.87,典型的黑洞质量约为10^{8}太阳质量。爱丁顿比的广泛分布是一致的预期活动星系核样品在低和中等光度。我们没有发现任何证据表明CDF-S活动星系核人口占主导地位的低质量的黑洞吸积在近爱丁顿比和结果表明,减少吸积率到平均大小的黑洞是负责报告的活动星系核缩小在红移低于1。

英文摘要:

Context: X-ray surveys of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) indicate `cosmic downsizing', with the comoving number density of high-luminosity objects peaking at higher redshifts (z about 2) than low-luminosity AGN (z<1). Aims: We test whether downsizing is caused by activity shifting towards low-mass black holes accreting at near-Eddington rates, or by a change in the average rate of accretion onto supermassive black holes. We estimate the black hole masses and Eddington ratios of an X-ray selected sample of AGN in the Chandra Deep Field South at z<1, probing the epoch where AGN cosmic downsizing has been reported. Methods: Black hole masses are estimated both from host galaxy stellar masses, which are estimated from fitting to published optical and near-infrared photometry, and from near-infrared luminosities, applying established correlations between black hole mass and host galaxy properties. Both methods give consistent results. Comparison and calibration of possible redshift-dependent effects is also made using published faint host galaxy velocity dispersion measurements. Results: The Eddington ratios in our sample span the range 10^{-5} to 1, with median log(L_bol/L_Edd)=-2.87, and with typical black hole masses about 10^{8} solar masses. The broad distribution of Eddington ratios is consistent with that expected for AGN samples at low and moderate luminosity. We find no evidence that the CDF-S AGN population is dominated by low-mass black holes accreting at near-Eddington ratios and the results suggest that diminishing accretion rates onto average-sized black holes are responsible for the reported AGN downsizing at redshifts below unity.

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