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z ~ 2 - 3紫外选择活动星系核的恒星星族

Stellar Populations of UV-Selected Active Galactic Nuclei Host Galaxies at z ~ 2 - 3

Kevin N. Hainline, Alice E. Shapley, Jenny E. Greene, Charles C. Steidel, Naveen A. Reddy, Dawn K. Erb

摘要:

利用恒星星族综合模型对33个由紫外光选择的窄线活动星系核(AGN)在z ~ 2 - 3处的主星系性质进行了分析。为了量化活动星系核辐射对宿主星系宽带光谱能量分布(SED)的贡献,我们使用了11个活动星系核的子样本,其光度覆盖范围从静止帧UV到近红外波长。用恒星星族和活动星系核模板的线性组合来模拟这些天体的SED,我们推断了活动星系核对导出的恒星星族参数的影响。我们还估计了典型的偏差派生恒星星族的活动星系核缺乏休息帧近红外波长覆盖,并开发了一种方法来推断真正的宿主星系的属性。我们比较活动星系核宿主星系的性质,在相同的红移范围内,包括仔细匹配的恒星质量的子样本的紫外线选择,恒星形成的非活动星系核的样本。虽然活动星系核的质量和SFR都比完全非活动星系核高,但它们的恒星星族性质与质量选择样本一致,表明活动星系核的存在与恒星形成活动在z ~ 2 - 3处的停止无关。我们认为,M_BH和星系恒星质量之间的相关性已经在这个时代。假设所有恒星质量的活动星系核的爱丁顿比大致恒定,我们无法探测到低质量星系中的活动星系核,因为它们太微弱了。

英文摘要:

We use stellar population synthesis modeling to analyze the host galaxy properties of a sample of 33 UV-selected, narrow-lined active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at z ~ 2 - 3. In order to quantify the contribution of AGN emission to host galaxy broadband spectral energy distributions (SEDs), we use the subsample of 11 AGNs with photometric coverage spanning from rest-frame UV through near-IR wavelengths. Modeling the SEDs of these objects with a linear combination of stellar population and AGN templates, we infer the effect of the AGN on derived stellar population parameters. We also estimate the typical bias in derived stellar populations for AGNs lacking rest-frame near-IR wavelength coverage, and develop a method for inferring the true host galaxy properties. We compare AGN host galaxy properties to those of a sample of UV-selected, star-forming non-AGNs in the same redshift range, including a subsample carefully matched in stellar mass. Although the AGNs have higher masses and SFRs than the full non-active sample, their stellar population properties are consistent with those of the mass-selected sample, suggesting that the presence of an AGN is not connected with the cessation of star-formation activity in star-forming galaxies at z ~ 2 - 3. We suggest that a correlation between M_BH and galaxy stellar mass is already in place at this epoch. Assuming a roughly constant Eddington ratio for AGNs at all stellar masses, we are unable to detect the AGNs in low-mass galaxies because they are simply too faint.

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