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2010ApJ...722..653F - Astrophys. J., 722, 653-667 (2010/October-2)

Decomposing star formation and active galactic nucleus with Spitzer mid-infrared spectra: luminosity functions and co-evolution.

FU H., YAN L., SCOVILLE N.Z., CAPAK P., AUSSEL H., LE FLOC'H E., ILBERT O., SALVATO M., KARTALTEPE J.S., FRAYER D.T., SANDERS D.B., SHETH K. and TANIGUCHI Y.

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We present Spitzer 7-38 µm spectra for a 24 µm flux-limited sample of galaxies at z ∼ 0.7 in the COSMOS field. The detailed high-quality spectra allow us to cleanly separate star formation (SF) and active galactic nucleus (AGN) in individual galaxies. We first decompose mid-infrared luminosity functions (LFs). We find that the SF 8 µm and 15 µm LFs are well described by Schechter functions. AGNs dominate the space density at high luminosities, which leads to the shallow bright-end slope of the overall mid-infrared LFs. The total infrared (8-1000 µm) LF from 70 µm selected galaxies shows a shallower bright-end slope than the bolometrically corrected SF 15 µm LF, owing to the intrinsic dispersion in the mid-to-far-infrared spectral energy distributions. We then study the contemporary growth of galaxies and their supermassive black holes (BHs). Seven of the thirty-one luminous infrared galaxies with Spitzer spectra host luminous AGNs, implying an AGN duty cycle of 23%±9%. The time-averaged ratio of BH accretion rate and SF rate matches the local MBH- Mbulge relation and the MBH- Mhostrelation at z ∼ 1. These results favor co-evolution scenarios in which BH growth and intense SF happen in the same event but the former spans a shorter lifetime than the latter. Finally, we compare our mid-infrared spectroscopic selection with other AGN identification methods and discuss candidate Compton-thick AGNs in the sample. While only half of the mid-infrared spectroscopically selected AGNs are detected in X-ray, ∼90% of them can be identified with their near-infrared spectral indices.

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Journal keyword(s): galaxies: active - galaxies: luminosity function, mass function - infrared: galaxies - quasars: general - X-rays: galaxies

Nomenclature: Table 1: [FYS2010] MIPS NNNNNN N=52 among (Nos 2176-51982).

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