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用CJF样本追踪活动星系的并合驱动演化

Tracing the merger-driven evolution of active galaxies using the CJF sample

Marios Karouzos, Silke Britzen, Andreas Eckart, Arno Witzel, Anton Zensus

摘要:

在宇宙大结构演化的背景下,尚不清楚活跃星系是否是每个星系经历的一个阶段,以及它们中心的黑洞演化的重要性。双黑洞系统在我们理解上述问题中可能起着关键作用。我们调查了加州理工学院Jodrell银行平坦光谱(CJF)的证据,有利于合并驱动的演化计划的活动星系和搜索AGN演化的示踪剂系统和BBH候选人的可能迹象。我们讨论了这种迹象的有效性和模糊性,并制定了一套选择标准,用于检测这样的系统。我们进行了广泛的文献检索所有可用的多波长信息,集中在光学和红外政权,除了形态信息的CJF源。我们分析了这个样本的统计数据,根据这些属性。我们发现1 ULIRG(Mrk 231)包括在CJF,一个过渡系统的原型。在z<0.4的CJF源中,总共有28.6%是失真的或有伴源。考虑到这里使用的无偏样本,这为活动星系中合并现象的普遍存在提供了强有力的证据。我们发现高光度源的无线电和近红外光度之间的相关性,解释的背景下,恒星形成和活动星系核组件之间的相互作用。我们发现变异性和进化的过渡系统之间的联系,通过其近红外颜色选择。我们选择了28个源,跟踪不同的演化阶段的活动星系核,以及一些最有前途的BBH候选人。我们发现4个源几乎周期性的变化,在类似的时间尺度上的光学和无线电。

英文摘要:

In the context of the evolution of large structures in the Universe, it is unclear whether active galaxies are a phase which each galaxy undergoes, and what is the importance of the evolution of black holes in their centers. Binary black hole (BBH) systems could play a key role in our understanding of the above question. We investigate the Caltech-Jodrell Bank flat-spectrum (CJF) sample for evidence in favor of the merger-driven evolution scheme of active galaxies and search tracer-systems of AGN evolution and possible indications of BBH candidates. We discuss the validity and ambiguity of such indications and formulate a set of selection criteria for the detection of such systems. We conduct an extensive literature search for all available multi-wavelength information, concentrating on the optical and infrared regime, in addition to morphological information of the CJF sources. We analyze the statistics of this sample, in terms of these properties. We find 1 ULIRG (Mrk 231) included in the CJF, prototype of a transitory system. In total 28.6% of the CJF sources with z<0.4 are distorted or have a companion. Given the unbiased sample used here, this provides strong evidence for the ubiquity of the merger phenomenon in the context of active galaxies. We find a correlation between the radio and the near-infrared luminosity for the high-luminosity sources, interpreted in the context of the interplay between a star-formation and AGN component. We find a connection between variability and evolutionary transitory systems, as selected through their near-infrared colors. We select 28 sources that trace the different evolution phases of an AGN, as well as a number of the most promising BBH candidates. We find 4 sources with almost periodical variability in the optical and radio on similar timescales.

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