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在SHARDS巡天中中等红移时AGN宿主中的恒星星族和恒星形成

Stellar populations and star formation in AGN hosts at intermediate redshift in the SHARDS survey

Antonio Hernán-Caballero, Almudena Alonso-Herrero, Pablo G. Pérez-González, Antonio Cava, Nicolás Cardiel, the SHARDS team

摘要:

SHARDS是一个正在进行的ESO/GTC大型计划,该计划正在使用GTC/OSIRIS在500-950 nm范围内使用24个中波段滤光片(在所有波段达到m=26.5 AB)获得GOODS-North场的超深测光。它的目的是研究高z质量星系的性质,但它也可以提供非常有价值的信息,在中等红移(z~0.5-2)的AGN的人口。本文介绍了X射线选择光学暗活动星系核(0.6<z<1.1)的宿主星系中的恒星星族和恒星形成活动的初步研究结果。我们证明,碎片测光提供了一个可靠的测量的4000年突破(Dn(4000),年龄的恒星星族的指标)下降到m=26.5 AB。我们证实,大多数X射线选择的活动星系核是由大质量星系(通常M*>10^10.5 Mo)托管的,并且托管活动星系核的星系比例随着恒星质量的增加而增加。活动星系核宿主的U-V和Dn(4000)与相同质量的非活动星系相当,也就是说,它们似乎没有平均更年轻的恒星星族,不像在本地宇宙中。然而,z~1活动星系核宿主在λ>3μm处的红外辐射比非活动星系核的多,这可能表明恒星形成率增加。此外,在大质量星系中,年轻恒星星族的活动星系核的频率大约是老星系的两倍。

英文摘要:

SHARDS is an ongoing ESO/GTC large program that is obtaining ultra-deep photometry of the GOODS-North field in 24 medium-band filters (reaching m=26.5 AB in all bands) in the 500-950 nm range with GTC/OSIRIS. It is designed to study the properties of high-z massive galaxies, but it can also provide very valuable information about the population of AGN at intermediate redshifts (z~0.5-2). Here we present preliminary results on a study of the stellar populations and star formation activity in the host galaxies of X-ray selected optically faint AGN at 0.6<z<1.1. We demonstrate that the SHARDS photometry provides a reliable measurement of the 4000 Å break (Dn(4000), an indicator for the age of stellar populations) down to m=26.5 AB. We confirm that most X-ray selected AGN are hosted by massive galaxies (typically M*>10^10.5 Mo) and that the fraction of galaxies hosting an AGN increases with the stellar mass. AGN-hosts have restframe U-V and Dn(4000) comparable to those of non-active galaxies of the same mass, that is, they do not appear to have on average younger stellar populations, unlike in the Local Universe. Nevertheless, z~1 AGN hosts show an excess of IR emission at λ>3μm compared to non-AGN galaxies which might indicate increased star formation rates. In addition, the frequency of AGN in massive galaxies is about twice higher for the ones with young stellar populations compared to the older ones.

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