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2018MNRAS.478.3721S - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 478, 3721-3739 (2018/August-2)

Deep ALMA photometry of distant X-ray AGN: improvements in star formation rate constraints, and AGN identification.

STANLEY F., HARRISON C.M., ALEXANDER D.M., SIMPSON J., KNUDSEN K.K., MULLANEY J.R., ROSARIO D.J. and SCHOLTZ J.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present the star formation rates (SFRs) of a sample of 109 galaxies with X-ray-selected active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with moderate to high X-ray luminosities (L_ 2-8keV_= 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 8-500µm 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 F_870 µm_/ F_24 µm_ -redshift plane as a tool for the identification of MIR-emitting AGN, for three different samples representing AGN-dominated, star formation-dominated, and composite sources. We demonstrate that the F_870 µm/F24 µm_ -redshift plane can successfully split between AGN and star formation-dominated sources, and can be used as an AGN identification method.

Abstract Copyright: © 2018 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): galaxies: active - galaxies: evolution - galaxies: star formation

VizieR on-line data: <Available at CDS (J/MNRAS/478/3721): tablea1.dat tablea2.dat tablea3.dat tablea4.dat>

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