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Georgakakis, A. and Mountrichas, G. and Salvato, M and Rosario, D. and Pérez González, Pablo Guillermo and Lutz, D. and Nandra, K. and Coil, A. and Cooper, M. C. and Newman, J. A. and Berta, S. and Magnelli, B. and Popesso, P. and Pozzi, F. (2014) Large-scale clustering measurements with photometric redshifts: comparing the dark matter haloes of X-ray AGN, star-forming and passive galaxies at z ≈ 1. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 443 (4). pp. 3327-3340. ISSN 0035-8711
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1326
Abstract
We combine multi-wavelength data in the AEGIS-XD and C-COSMOS surveys to measure the typical dark matter halo mass of X-ray selected active galactic nuclei (AGN) [L_X(2–10 keV) > 10^42 erg s^− 1] in comparison with far-infrared selected star-forming galaxies detected in the Herschel/PEP survey (PACS Evolutionary Probe; L_IR > 10^11 L_⊙) and quiescent systems at z ≈ 1. We develop a novel method to measure the clustering of extragalactic populations that uses photometric redshift probability distribution functions in addition to any spectroscopy. This is advantageous in that all sources in the sample are used in the clustering analysis, not just the subset with secure spectroscopy. The method works best for large samples. The loss of accuracy because of the lack of spectroscopy is balanced by increasing the number of sources used to measure the clustering. We find that X-ray AGN, far-infrared selected star-forming galaxies and passive systems in the redshift interval 0.6 < z < 1.4 are found in haloes of similar mass, log M_DMH/(M_⊙ h^−1) ≈ 13.0. We argue that this is because the galaxies in all three samples (AGN, star-forming, passive) have similar stellar mass distributions, approximated by the J-band luminosity. Therefore, all galaxies that can potentially host X-ray AGN, because they have stellar masses in the appropriate range, live in dark matter haloes of log M_DMH/(M_⊙ h^−1) ≈ 13.0 independent of their star formation rates. This suggests that the stellar mass of X-ray AGN hosts is driving the observed clustering properties of this population. We also speculate that trends between AGN properties (e.g. luminosity, level of obscuration) and large-scale environment may be related to differences in the stellar mass of the host galaxies.
Item Type: | Article |
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Additional Information: | © 2014 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Active galactic nucleus; Supermassive black-holes; Extended groth strip; Stellar mass; Host galaxies; Observational constraints; Spitzer/Irac sources; Luminosity function; Formation rates; Goods-herschel |
Subjects: | Sciences > Physics > Astrophysics Sciences > Physics > Astronomy |
ID Code: | 38303 |
Deposited On: | 30 Jun 2016 14:58 |
Last Modified: | 10 Dec 2018 15:05 |
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