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ALFALFA HI数据堆叠II。AGN宿主星系的HI含量

ALFALFA HI Data Stacking II. HI content of the host galaxies of AGN

S. Fabello, G. Kauffmann, B. Catinella, R. Giovanelli, M. P. Haynes, T. M. Heckman, D. Schiminovich

摘要:

我们使用叠加技术测量了1871个活动星系核宿主星系的平均HI含量,这些星系来自于从SDSS和GALEX成像巡天中选出的恒星质量大于10^10太阳质量,红移在0.025<z<0.05范围内的母星系样本。HI数据来自Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA(ALCAFA)调查。在以前的工作中,我们发现,HI气体分数在星系中的光学/UV颜色和恒星表面质量密度的组合相关性最强。因此,我们建立了一个控制样本的非活动星系核匹配的活动星系核主机在这两个属性。研究了HI气体质量分数(M(HI)/M *,其中M * 为恒星质量)随黑洞吸积速率指标L[OIII]/M(BH)的变化趋势.我们发现在我们样品中的星系探测的所有黑洞吸积率值下,活动星系核和对照样品之间的HI含量没有显著差异。这表明活动星系核并不影响本宇宙中星系的大尺度气体性质。研究了蓝、红星系群中HI质量分数随黑洞吸积率的变化。在蓝色布居中,HI气体分数与吸积率无关,表明吸积对星系大尺度上的星际介质性质不敏感。然而,在红色的人口吸积率和气体分数相关。在这个群体中测量的气体分数与恒星质量损失来源的预期没有太大的不同,这意味着红色AGN群体中的燃料供应可能是恒星质量损失和圆盘中气体的混合物。

英文摘要:

We use a stacking technique to measure the average HI content of a volume-limited sample of 1871 AGN host galaxies from a parent sample of galaxies selected from the SDSS and GALEX imaging surveys with stellar masses greater than 10^10 M_sun and redshifts in the range 0.025<z<0.05. HI data are available from the Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA (ALFALFA) survey. In previous work, we found that the HI gas fraction in galaxies correlates most strongly with the combination of optical/UV colour and stellar surface mass density. We therefore build a control sample of non-AGN matched to the AGN hosts in these two properties. We study trends in HI gas mass fraction (M(HI)/M_*), where M_* is the stellar mass) as a function of black hole accretion rate indicator L[OIII]/M(BH). We find no significant difference in HI content between AGN and control samples at all values of black hole accretion rate probed by the galaxies in our sample. This indicates that AGN do not influence the large-scale gaseous properties of galaxies in the local Universe. We have studied the variation in HI mass fraction with black hole accretion rate in the blue and red galaxy populations. In the blue population, the HI gas fraction is independent of accretion rate, indicating that accretion is not sensitive to the properties of the interstellar medium of the galaxy on large scales. However, in the red population accretion rate and gas fraction do correlate. The measured gas fractions in this population are not too different from the ones expected from a stellar mass loss origin, implying that the fuel supply in the red AGN population could be a mixture of mass loss from stars and gas present in disks.

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