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深层无线电场中的AGN分量:初步调查结果

The AGN component in deep radio fields: Results from the First Look Survey

I. Prandoni, R. Morganti, A. Mignano

摘要:

我们目前正在利用深无线电/光学/红外信息可用于银河系外的斯皮策第一次看调查(FLS)的组成部分,以调查微弱的无线电选择活动星系核的物理性质,研究的目的是活动星系核分量的亚mJy无线电场。一个关键的未解决的问题是,作为宇宙时代的函数,低功率AGN是否与有效吸积系统(主要是无线电安静)或吸积率非常低的系统(主要是无线电大声)更相关。在这里,我们提出了一个样本的光学识别的无线电发射活动星系核提取的FLS。初步结果表明,在FLS探测的通量密度(S(1.4 GHz)> 100 microJy)下,我们仍然有大量的射电大声活动星系核,类似于在“更明亮”的亚mJy射电样本中发现的情况。然而,非常有趣的是,我们也有一个明确和直接的证据,在FLS的无线电发射活动星系核的人口,其属性是一致的,从现有的无线电安静活动星系核模型的预期。这种活动星系核之所以能够被识别出来,要归功于红外线颜色的可用性,红外线颜色被证明对有效地将活动星系核触发的射电源与恒星形成触发的射电源分开特别有用。后者的结果支持的想法,无线电安静活动星系核不一定是无线电沉默的,非常有希望的可能表明,大部分的无线电安静活动星系核人口可能出现从更深的无线电样本的研究。

英文摘要:

We are currently exploiting the deep radio/optical/IR information available for the extra-galactic component of the Spitzer First Look Survey (FLS) to investigate the physical properties of faint radio-selected AGNs, with the aim of studying the AGN component of sub-mJy radio fields. One of the key unresolved issues is whether, as a function of cosmic epoch, low-power AGNs are more related to efficiently accreting systems (mostly radio-quiet) or to systems with very low accretion rates (mostly radio-loud). Here we present a sample of optically identified radio-emitting AGNs extracted from the FLS. Preliminary results show that at the flux densities probed by the FLS (S(1.4 GHz)> 100 microJy) we still have a significant number of radio-loud AGNs, similarly to what found in 'brighter' sub-mJy radio samples. Very interestingly, however, we have also a clear and direct evidence of a population of radio-emitting AGNs in the FLS, whose properties are consistent with those expected from existing radio-quiet AGN modeling. Such AGNs could be recognised as such thanks to the availability of IR colors which proved to be especially useful to efficiently separate radio sources triggered by AGNs, from sources triggered by star-formation. This latter result supports the idea that radio-quiet AGNs are not necessarily radio silent, and very promisingly may indicate that the bulk of the radio-quiet AGN population could emerge from studies of deeper radio samples.

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