AGN Host Galaxies at z~0.4-1.3 : Bulge-dominated and Lacking Merger-AGN Connection

Details AGN Host Galaxies at z~0.4-1.3 : Bulge-dominated and Lacking Merger-AGN Connection AGN Host Galaxies at z~0.4-1.3 : Bulge-dominated and Lacking Merger-AGN Connection

2005-07-05

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0507091v1

Astrophys.J.627:L97-L100,2005

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Astrophysical Journal Letters, in press. Figure 1 available at full resolution upon request

Scientific paper

10.1086/432256

We investigate morphological structure parameters and local environments of distant moderate-luminosity active galactic nucleus (AGN) host galaxies in the overlap between the HST/ACS observations of the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS) and the two Chandra Deep Fields. We compute near-neighbor counts and BViz asymmetry (A) and concentration (C) indices for ~35,500 GOODS/ACS galaxies complete to z_850 ~ 26.6, including the resolved hosts of 322 X-ray-selected AGNs. Distributions of (1) z_850 asymmetry for 130 AGN hosts at z_850 < 23 and (2) near-neighbor counts for 173 AGN hosts at z_850 < 24 are both consistent with non-AGN control samples. This implies no close connection between recent galaxy mergers and moderate-luminosity AGN activity out to appreciable look-back times (z < 1.3), approaching the epoch of peak AGN activity in the universe. The distribution of z_850 concentrations for the AGN hosts is offset by +0.5 compared to the non-AGN, a 6.4-sigma discrepancy much larger than can be explained by the possible influence of unresolved emission from the AGN or a circumnuclear starburst. The local universe association between AGN and bulge-dominated galaxies thus persists to substantial look-back time. We discuss implications in the context of the low-redshift supermassive central black hole mass correlation with host galaxy properties, including concentration.

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