Cold dust emission from X-ray AGN in the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey: dependence on luminosity, obscuration and AGN activity

Banerji, Manda; McMahon, R.G.; Willott, C.J.; Geach, J.E.; Harrison, C.M.; Alaghband-Zadeh, S.; Alexander, D.M.; Bourne, N.; Coppin, K.E.K.; Dunlop, J.S.; Farrah, D.; Jarvis, M.; Michałowski, M.J.; Page, M.; Smith, D.J.B.; Swinbank, A.M.; Symeonidis, M.; van der Werf, P.P.

doi:10.1093/mnras/stv1881

Cold dust emission from X-ray AGN in the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey: dependence on luminosity, obscuration and AGN activity

Banerji, Manda; McMahon, R.G.; Willott, C.J.; Geach, J.E.; Harrison, C.M.; Alaghband-Zadeh, S.; Alexander, D.M.; Bourne, N.; Coppin, K.E.K.; Dunlop, J.S.; Farrah, D.; Jarvis, M.; Michałowski, M.J.; Page, M.; Smith, D.J.B.; Swinbank, A.M.; Symeonidis, M.; van der Werf, P.P.

Authors

Manda Banerji

R.G. McMahon

C.J. Willott

J.E. Geach

C.M. Harrison

S. Alaghband-Zadeh

Professor David Alexander d.m.alexander@durham.ac.uk
Professor

N. Bourne

K.E.K. Coppin

J.S. Dunlop

D. Farrah

M. Jarvis

M.J. Michałowski

M. Page

D.J.B. Smith

Professor Mark Swinbank a.m.swinbank@durham.ac.uk
Professor

M. Symeonidis

P.P. van der Werf

Abstract

We study the 850-μm emission in X-ray-selected active galactic nuclei (AGN) in the ∼2 deg2 COSMOS field using new data from the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey. We find 19 850-μm bright X-ray AGN in a ‘high-sensitivity’ region covering 0.89 deg2 with flux densities of S850 = 4–10 mJy. The 19 AGN span the full range in redshift and hard X-ray luminosity covered by the sample – 0.7 ≲ z ≲ 3.5 and 43.2 ≲ log10(LX) ≲ 45. We report a highly significant stacked 850-μm detection of a hard X-ray flux-limited population of 699 z > 1 X-ray AGN – S850 = 0.71 ± 0.08 mJy. We explore trends in the stacked 850-μm flux densities with redshift, finding no evolution in the average cold dust emission over the redshift range probed. For type 1 AGN, there is no significant correlation between the stacked 850-μm flux and hard X-ray luminosity. However, in type 2 AGN the stacked submillimeter flux is a factor of 2 higher at high luminosities. When averaging over all X-ray luminosities, no significant differences are found in the stacked submillimeter fluxes of type 1 and type 2 AGN as well as AGN separated on the basis of X-ray hardness ratios and optical-to-infrared colours. However, at log10(L2 − 10/erg s−1) > 44.4, dependences in average submillimeter flux on the optical-to-infrared colours become more pronounced. We argue that these high-luminosity AGN represent a transition from a secular to a merger-driven evolutionary phase where the star formation rates and accretion luminosities are more tightly coupled. Stacked AGN 850-μm fluxes are compared to the stacked fluxes of a mass-matched sample of K-band-selected non-AGN galaxies. We find that at 10.5

Citation

Banerji, M., McMahon, R., Willott, C., Geach, J., Harrison, C., Alaghband-Zadeh, S., …van der Werf, P. (2015). Cold dust emission from X-ray AGN in the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey: dependence on luminosity, obscuration and AGN activity. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 454(1), 419-438. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1881

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Aug 12, 2015
Online Publication Date	Sep 22, 2015
Publication Date	Nov 21, 2015
Deposit Date	Feb 9, 2016
Publicly Available Date	Feb 12, 2016
Journal	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Print ISSN	0035-8711
Electronic ISSN	1365-2966
Publisher	Royal Astronomical Society
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	454
Issue	1
Pages	419-438
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1881
Keywords	Quasars: general, X-rays: galaxies, Galaxies: evolution, Submillimetre: galaxies.

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