The Halo Occupation Distribution of Active Galactic Nuclei

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May 2011

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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #218, #120.05; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, 2011

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We investigate the halo occupation distribution of active galactic nuclei (AGN) using a state-of-the-art cosmological hydrodynamic simulation that self-consistently incorporates the growth and feedback of supermassive black holes and the physics of galaxy formation (DiMatteo et al. 2008). We show that the mean occupation function can be modeled as a softened step function for central AGN and a power law for the satellite population. The satellite occupation is consistent with weak redshift evolution and a power law index of unity. The number of satellite black holes at a given halo mass follows a Poisson distribution. We show that at low redshifts (z=1.0) feedback from AGN is responsible for higher suppression of black hole growth in higher mass halos. This effect introduces a bias in the correlation between instantaneous AGN luminosity and the host halo mass, making AGN clustering depend weakly on luminosity at low redshifts. We show that the radial distribution of AGN follows a power law which is fundamentally different from those of galaxies and dark matter. The best-fit power law index is -2.26 ± 0.23. The power law exponent do not show any evolution with redshift, host halo mass and AGN luminosity within statistical limits. Incorporating the environmental dependence of supermassive black hole accretion and feedback, our formalism provides the most complete theoretical tool for interpreting current and future measurements of AGN clustering.

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