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低红移AGN宿主星系的形态:AGN光度起什么作用?

Morphologies of low-redshift AGN host galaxies: what role does AGN luminosity play?

Carolin Villforth, Fred Hamann, Anton Koekemoer, David Rosario, Timothy Hamilton, Elizabeth J. McGrath, Arjen van der Wel, YuYen Chang, Yicheng Guo, CANDELS collaboration

摘要:

多年来,星系的合并一直被怀疑是活动星系核活动的主要触发因素。然而,当与仔细匹配的对照样本相比时,AGN宿主星系通常没有增强的相互作用迹象。对于活动星系核和合并之间缺乏观测到的联系,一个常见的解释是,虽然合并对触发活动星系核很重要,但它们只在活动星系核的高光度端占主导地位。在这项研究中,我们比较了AGN主机的形态,仔细匹配的控制样品,特别是研究AGN光度的作用。我们没有发现增强合并率在活动星系核主机,也没有发现在更高的活动星系核光度更强的干扰迹象的趋势。虽然这项研究并不包括非常高的光度活动星系核,我们可以排除活动星系核和合并之间的联系,在广泛的活动星系核光度范围内,因此为大部分的活动星系核人口。

英文摘要:

Mergers of galaxies have been suspected to be a major trigger of AGN activity for many years. However, when compared to carefully matched control samples, AGN host galaxies often show no enhanced signs of interaction. A common explanation for this lack of observed association between AGN and mergers has often been that while mergers are of importance for triggering AGN, they only dominate at the very high luminosity end of the AGN population. In this study, we compare the morphologies of AGN hosts to a carefully matched control sample and particularly study the role of AGN luminosity. We find no enhanced merger rates in AGN hosts and also find no trend for stronger signs of disturbance at higher AGN luminosities. While this study does not cover very high luminosity AGN, we can exclude a strong connection between AGN and mergers over a wide range of AGN luminosities and therefore for a large part of the AGN population.

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