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中等红移的类星体并不特殊,但它们通常是卫星

Quasars at intermediate redshift are not special; but they are often satellites

Shadab Alam, Nicholas P. Ross, Sarah Eftekharzadeh, John A. Peacock, Johan Comparat, Adam D. Myers, Ashley J. Ross

摘要:

了解星系中心的超大质量黑洞(SMBH)活动与其宿主暗物质晕之间的联系是现代天体物理学中的一个关键问题。SDSS-IV eBOSS的最终数据发布提供了最大的当代星系和类星体光谱样本。利用这个样本,覆盖红移区间$z=0.7-1.1$,我们测量了eBOSS类星体、发射线星系团(ELG)和发光红星系团(LRGs)的成团性质。我们还测量了类星体的分数作为星系人口定义的过密度的函数。使用这些测量,我们调查类星体如何填充和采样的星系人口,以及类星体的主机暗物质晕样本的基本晕分布。我们发现,一个星系的主机类星体的概率是独立的主机星系的暗物质晕质量。我们还发现约60%的eBOSS类星体是由LRGs主办的,约20- 40%的类星体是由卫星星系主办的。我们发现类星体的轻微偏好,以填充卫星星系的中央星系。这与不同类型星系的主晕质量分布有关。根据我们的分析,类星体应该是由一个非常广泛的分布晕,它们的发生应该只调制的星系形成过程的效率。

英文摘要:

Understanding the links between the activity of supermassive black holes (SMBH) at the centres of galaxies and their host dark matter haloes is a key question in modern astrophysics. The final data release of the SDSS-IV eBOSS provides the largest contemporary spectroscopic sample of galaxies and QSOs. Using this sample and covering the redshift interval $z=0.7-1.1$, we have measured the clustering properties of the eBOSS QSOs, Emission Line Galaxies (ELGs) and Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs). We have also measured the fraction of QSOs as a function of the overdensity defined by the galaxy population. Using these measurements, we investigate how QSOs populate and sample the galaxy population, and how the host dark-matter haloes of QSOs sample the underlying halo distribution. We find that the probability of a galaxy hosting a QSO is independent of the host dark matter halo mass of the galaxy. We also find that about 60\% of eBOSS QSOs are hosted by LRGs and about 20-40\% of QSOs are hosted by satellite galaxies. We find a slight preference for QSOs to populate satellite galaxies over central galaxies. This is connected to the host halo mass distribution of different types of galaxies. Based on our analysis, QSOs should be hosted by a very broad distribution of haloes, and their occurrence should be modulated only by the efficiency of galaxy formation processes.

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