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弱AGN在COSMOS场中的光学选择

Optical Selection of Faint AGN in the COSMOS Field

C. M. Casey, C. D. Impey, J. R. Trump, J. Gabor, R. G. Abraham, P. Capak, N. Z. Scoville, M. Brusa, E. Schinnerer

摘要:

我们概述了一个战略,以选择微弱(i<24.5)1型AGN候选人下降到Seyfert/类星体边界的光谱定位在COSMOS领域,挑选候选人的非恒星的颜色在宽带地基测光和形态特征提取的HST-ACS。活动星系核的光学颜色选择还没有被应用到如此大的连续天空中如此微弱的星等。已知热恒星是z<2的明亮AGN候选者选择的主要污染物,但我们预计所有红移的最高颜色污染来自微弱的星暴和紧凑星系。通过基尼系数的形态选择将大多数潜在的活动星系核从这些暗淡的蓝色星系中分离出来。类星体光度函数的最新模型被用来估计类星体的表面密度,而对宇宙场中恒星星族的研究则推断出恒星污染。我们使用292光谱证实的1型活动星系核和类星体模板来预测活动星系核的颜色与红移,并将这些预测与已知的污染人口的颜色进行对比。这项研究的动机和随后的光谱后续工作是填充和完善的QLF的第1型活动星系核的人口目前还不为人所知的微弱的结束。预期的活动星系核观测将增加到COSMOS场中已知的约300个活动星系核,使COSMOS成为一个密集的类星体场,用于了解超大质量黑洞和探测居间体积中星系际介质的结构。

英文摘要:

We outline a strategy to select faint (i<24.5) type 1 AGN candidates down to the Seyfert/QSO boundary for spectroscopic targeting in the COSMOS field, picking candidates by their nonstellar colors in broadband ground-based photometry and morphological properties extracted from HST-ACS. AGN optical color selection has not been applied to such faint magnitudes in such a large continuous part of the sky. Hot stars are known to be the dominant contaminant for bright AGN candidate selection at z<2, but we anticipate the highest color contamination at all redshifts to be from faint starburst and compact galaxies. Morphological selection via the Gini Coefficient separates most potential AGN from these faint blue galaxies. Recent models of the quasar luminosity function are used to estimate quasar surface densities, and studies of stellar populations in the COSMOS field infer stellar contamination. We use 292 spectroscopically confirmed type 1 AGN and quasar templates to predict AGN colors with redshift, and contrast those predictions with the colors of known contaminating populations. The motivation of this study and subsequent spectroscopic follow-up is to populate and refine the faint end of the QLF where the population of type 1 AGN is presently not well known. The anticipated AGN observations will add to the ~300 already known AGN in the COSMOS field, making COSMOS a densely packed field of quasars to be used to understand supermassive black holes and probe the structure of the intergalactic medium in the intervening volume.

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