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射电星系团和类星体的成团

Clustering of Radio Galaxies and Quasars

Emilio Donoso, Cheng Li, Guinevere Kauffmann, Philip N. Best, Timothy M. Heckman

摘要:

我们计算了从斯隆数字巡天中选出的14,000个红移在0.4和0.8之间的射电活动星系核(RLAGN)样本和120万个相同红移范围内的发光红色星系的参考样本之间的互相关。我们量化的集群无线电响亮AGN取决于主机星系质量和无线电光度。在所有尺度上,与具有相同恒星质量和红移的射电安静星系的对照样本相比,射电响亮的活动星系核聚集得更强,但在小于1 Mpc的尺度上差异最大。此外,集群振幅的RLAGN变化显着的无线电光度尺度小于1百万秒差距。这证明了星系的气体环境在其暗物质晕的尺度上,不仅在确定星系是射电强活动星系核的概率方面起着关键作用,而且在确定射电喷流的总光度方面也起着关键作用。接下来,我们比较了在相同的红移范围内的射电星系和射电噪类星体的聚类。统一的模型预测,这两种类型的活动核应该以相同的方式聚集。我们的数据表明,大多数RLAGN的集群更强烈比射电响亮的类星体,即使活动星系核和类星体样本匹配的黑洞质量和射电光度。在我们的样本中,只有射电光度超过10^26 W/Hz的最极端的RLAGN和RLQSO具有类似的聚类特性。在z~0.5处,大多数强烈演化的RLAGN粒子群都存在于与类星体不同的环境中,因此必须由不同的物理机制触发。

英文摘要:

We compute the cross-correlation between a sample of 14,000 radio-loud AGN (RLAGN) with redshifts between 0.4 and 0.8 selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and a reference sample of 1.2 million luminous red galaxies in the same redshift range. We quantify how the clustering of radio-loud AGN depends on host galaxy mass and on radio luminosity. Radio-loud AGN are clustered more strongly on all scales than control samples of radio-quiet galaxies with the same stellar masses and redshifts, but the differences are largest on scales less than 1 Mpc. In addition, the clustering amplitude of the RLAGN varies significantly with radio luminosity on scales less than 1 Mpc. This proves that the gaseous environment of a galaxy on the scale of its dark matter halo, plays a key role in determining not only the probability that a galaxy is radio-loud AGN, but also the total luminosity of the radio jet. Next, we compare the clustering of radio galaxies with that of radio-loud quasars in the same redshift range. Unified models predict that both types of active nuclei should cluster in the same way. Our data show that most RLAGN are clustered more strongly than radio-loud QSOs, even when the AGN and QSO samples are matched in both black hole mass and radio luminosity. Only the most extreme RLAGN and RLQSOs in our sample, with radio luminosities in excess of 10^26 W/Hz, have similar clustering properties. The majority of the strongly evolving RLAGN population at z~0.5 are found in different environments to the quasars, and hence must be triggered by a different physical mechanism.

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