Agnese Del Moro
Luminous and Obscured Quasars and Their Host Galaxies
Del Moro, Agnese; Alexander, David M.; Bauer, Franz E.; Daddi, Emanuele; Kocevski, Dale D.; Stanley, Flora; McIntosh, Daniel H.
Authors
Professor David Alexander d.m.alexander@durham.ac.uk
Professor
Franz E. Bauer
Emanuele Daddi
Dale D. Kocevski
Flora Stanley
Daniel H. McIntosh
Abstract
The most heavily-obscured, luminous quasars might represent a specific phase of the evolution of the actively accreting supermassive black holes and their host galaxies, possibly related to mergers. We investigated a sample of the most luminous quasars at z ≈ 1 − 3 in the GOODS fields, selected in the mid-infrared band through detailed spectral energy distribution (SED) decomposition. The vast majority of these quasars (~80%) are obscured in the X-ray band and ~30% of them to such an extent, that they are undetected in some of the deepest (2 and 4 Ms) Chandra X-ray data. Although no clear relation is found between the star-formation rate of the host galaxies and the X-ray obscuration, we find a higher incidence of heavily-obscured quasars in disturbed/merging galaxies compared to the unobscured ones, thus possibly representing an earlier stage of evolution, after which the system is relaxing and becoming unobscured.
Citation
Del Moro, A., Alexander, D. M., Bauer, F. E., Daddi, E., Kocevski, D. D., Stanley, F., & McIntosh, D. H. (2018). Luminous and Obscured Quasars and Their Host Galaxies. Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 4, Article 67. https://doi.org/10.3389/fspas.2017.00067
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Dec 18, 2017 |
Online Publication Date | Jan 12, 2018 |
Publication Date | Jan 12, 2018 |
Deposit Date | Apr 13, 2018 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 28, 2024 |
Journal | Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences |
Publisher | Frontiers Media |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 4 |
Article Number | 67 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.3389/fspas.2017.00067 |
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© 2018 Del Moro, Alexander, Bauer, Daddi, Kocevski, Stanley and McIntosh. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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