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PRIMUS:AGN吸积对宿主恒星质量和颜色的依赖性

PRIMUS: The dependence of AGN accretion on host stellar mass and color

James Aird, Alison L. Coil, John Moustakas, Michael R. Blanton, Scott M. Burles, Richard J. Cool, Daniel J. Eisenstein, M. Stephen M. Smith, Kenneth C. Wong, Guangtun Zhu

摘要:

我们提出的证据表明,活动星系核(AGN)的发生率和它们的吸积率的分布不依赖于它们的宿主星系的恒星质量,与以前的研究相反。我们利用来自三个河外星系场(XMM-LSS、COSMOS和ELAIS-S1)的硬(2-10 keV)X射线数据,结合棱镜多天体巡天的红移,在约25,000个星系的母样本中,在0.2<z<1.0,3.4 deg^2和i~23的范围内,识别出242个L_{2-10 keV} =10^{42-44} erg /s的活动星系核。我们发现,虽然在固定的X射线光度的活动星系核的星系的比例上升强烈的恒星质量,X射线光度的分布是独立的质量。此外,我们表明,星系将主机AGN的概率可以定义为一个通用的爱丁顿比分布,是独立的主机星系恒星质量,并具有幂律形状的斜率-0.65。这些结果表明,在9.5<log M */M sun<12的所有恒星质量范围内,活动星系核都是普遍存在的,在这个恒星质量范围内,活动星系核的活动受相同的物理过程的控制。虽然在大质量星系中可以观察到更高的活动星系核分数,但这是与基本的爱丁顿比分布有关的选择效应。我们还发现,活动星系核的分数迅速下降之间的z~1和现在的一天,并适度增强(因子~2)的星系与蓝色或绿色的光学颜色。因此,虽然活动星系核的活动和恒星的形成似乎是全球相关的,我们没有发现证据表明活动星系核的存在与恒星形成的淬火或星系的颜色转换。

英文摘要:

We present evidence that the incidence of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and the distribution of their accretion rates do not depend on the stellar masses of their host galaxies, contrary to previous studies. We use hard (2-10 keV) X-ray data from three extragalactic fields (XMM-LSS, COSMOS and ELAIS-S1) with redshifts from the Prism Multi-object Survey to identify 242 AGNs with L_{2-10 keV}=10^{42-44} erg /s within a parent sample of ~25,000 galaxies at 0.2<z<1.0 over ~3.4 deg^2 and to i~23. We find that although the fraction of galaxies hosting an AGN at fixed X-ray luminosity rises strongly with stellar mass, the distribution of X-ray luminosities is independent of mass. Furthermore, we show that the probability that a galaxy will host an AGN can be defined by a universal Eddington ratio distribution that is independent of the host galaxy stellar mass and has a power-law shape with slope -0.65. These results demonstrate that AGNs are prevalent at all stellar masses in the range 9.5<log M_*/M_sun<12 and that the same physical processes regulate AGN activity in all galaxies in this stellar mass range. While a higher AGN fraction may be observed in massive galaxies, this is a selection effect related to the underlying Eddington ratio distribution. We also find that the AGN fraction drops rapidly between z~1 and the present day and is moderately enhanced (factor~2) in galaxies with blue or green optical colors. Consequently, while AGN activity and star formation appear to be globally correlated, we do not find evidence that the presence of an AGN is related to the quenching of star formation or the color transformation of galaxies.

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