Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2008-06-13
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Conference proceedings of the meeting "Observational Evidence for Black Holes" held in Calcutta, Feb 2008. Paper will be publi
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.3009493
We study the host galaxies and black holes of typical X-ray selected AGN at intermediate redshifts (z~0.5-1.4). The AGN are selected such that their spectral energy distributions are dominated by stellar emission, i.e., they show a prominent 1.6micron bump thus minimizing the AGN emission contamination. This AGN population comprises approximately 50% of the X-ray selected AGN at these redshifts. AGN reside in the most massive galaxies at the redshifts probed here, with characteristic stellar masses that are intermediate between those of local type 2 AGN and high redshift (z~2) AGN. The inferred black hole masses of typical AGN are similar to those of optically identified quasars at similar redshifts. Since the AGN in our sample are much less luminous than quasars, typical AGN have low Eddington ratios. This suggests that, at least at intermediate redshifts, the cosmic AGN 'downsizing' is due to both a decrease in the characteristic stellar mass of the host galaxies, and less efficient accretion. Finally there is no strong evidence in AGN host galaxies for either highly suppressed star formation, expected if AGN played a role in quenching star formation, or elevated star formation when compared to mass selected galaxies of similar stellar masses and redshifts.
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