Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
May 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011aas...21833005d&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #218, #330.05; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, 2011
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
Telescopes like Herschel and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) are creating new opportunities to study sources in the far infrared (FIR), a wavelength region dominated by cold dust emission. Probing cold dust in active galaxies allows for study of the star formation history of active galactic nuclei (AGN) hosts. The FIR is also an important spectral region for observing AGN which are heavily enshrouded by dust, such as Compton thick (CT) AGN. By using information from deep X-ray surveys and cosmic X-ray background synthesis models, we compute Cloudy photoionization simulations which are used to predict the spectral energy distribution (SED) of AGN in the FIR. Expected differential number counts of AGN and their host galaxies are calculated in the Herschel bands. The expected contribution of AGN and their hosts to the cosmic infrared background (CIRB) is also computed. Multiple star formation scenarios are investigated using a modified blackbody star formation SED. It is found that FIR observations at 350 and 500 um are an excellent tool in determining the star formation history of AGN hosts. Additionally, the AGN contribution to the CIRB can be used to determine whether star formation in AGN hosts evolves differently than in normal galaxies. AGN and host differential number counts are dominated by CT AGN in the Herschel-SPIRE bands. Therefore, X-ray stacking of bright SPIRE sources is likely to disclose a large fraction of the CT AGN population.
Ballantyne David R.
Draper Aden R.
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