F Stanley
Deep ALMA photometry of distant X-ray AGN: improvements in star formation rate constraints, and AGN identification
Stanley, F; Harrison, CM; Alexander, DM; Simpson, J; Knudsen, KK; Mullaney, J R; Rosario, DJ; Scholtz, J
Authors
CM Harrison
Professor David Alexander d.m.alexander@durham.ac.uk
Professor
J Simpson
KK Knudsen
J R Mullaney
DJ Rosario
J Scholtz
Abstract
We present the star formation rates (SFRs) of a sample of 109 galaxies with X-rayselected active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with moderate to high X-ray luminosities (L2−8 keV = 1042 − 1045 erg s−1), at redshifts 1 < z < 4.7, that were selected to be faint or undetected in the Herschel bands. We combine our deep Atacama large (sub-)millimetre array (ALMA) continuum observations with deblended 8–500 μm photometry from Spitzer and Herschel, and use infrared (IR) spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting and AGN – star formation decomposition methods. The addition of the ALMA photometry results in an order of magnitude more X-ray AGN in our sample with a measured SFR (now 37 %). The remaining 63 % of the sources have SFR upper limits that are typically a factor of 2–10 times lower than the pre-ALMA constraints. With the improved constraints on the IR SEDs, we can now identify a mid-IR (MIR) AGN component in 50 % of our sample, compared to only ∼1 % previously. We further explore the F870 μm/F24 μm–redshift plane as a tool for the identification of MIR-emitting AGN, for three different samples representing AGN-dominated, star formationdominated, and composite sources. We demonstrate that the F870 μm/F24 μm–redshift plane can successfully split between AGN and star formation-dominated sources, and can be used as an AGN identification method.
Citation
Stanley, F., Harrison, C., Alexander, D., Simpson, J., Knudsen, K., Mullaney, J., …Scholtz, J. (2018). Deep ALMA photometry of distant X-ray AGN: improvements in star formation rate constraints, and AGN identification. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 478(3), 3721-3739. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1044
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Apr 23, 2018 |
Online Publication Date | May 7, 2018 |
Publication Date | Aug 21, 2018 |
Deposit Date | Sep 5, 2018 |
Publicly Available Date | Sep 18, 2018 |
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 | 478 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 3721-3739 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1044 |
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