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2019ApJ...871...87B - Astrophys. J., 871, 87-87 (2019/January-3)

Infrared contributions of X-ray selected active galactic nuclei in dusty star-forming galaxies.

BROWN A., NAYYERI H., COORAY A., MA J., HICKOX R.C. and AZADI M.

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We investigate the infrared (IR) contribution from supermassive black hole activity versus host galaxy emission in the mid- to far-IR spectrum for a large sample of X-ray bright active galactic nuclei (AGN) residing in dusty, star-forming host galaxies. We select 703 AGN with LX=1042–1046 erg s–1 at 0.1 < z < 5 from the Chandra XBootes X-ray Survey with rich multiband observations in the optical to far-IR. This is the largest sample to date of X-ray AGN with mid- and far-IR detections that uses spectral energy distribution (SED) decomposition to determine intrinsic AGN and host galaxy IR luminosities. We determine weak or nonexistent relationships when averaging star formation activity as a function of AGN activity, but see stronger positive trends when averaging LX in bins of star-forming activity for AGN at low redshifts. We estimate an average dust covering factor (CF) of 33% based on IR SEDs and bolometric AGN luminosity, corresponding to a Type 2 AGN population of roughly a third. We also see a population of AGN that challenge the inclination-based unification model with individual dust CFs that contradict the nuclear obscuration expected from observed X-ray hardness ratios. We see no strong connection between AGN fractions in the IR and corresponding total IR, 24 µm, or X-ray luminosities. The average rest-frame AGN contribution as a function of IR wavelength shows significant (∼80%) contributions in the mid-IR that trail off at λ > 30 µm. Additionally, we provide a relation between observed LX and pure AGN IR output for high-z AGN, allowing future studies to estimate AGN IR contribution using only observed X-ray flux density estimates.

Abstract Copyright: © 2019. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

Journal keyword(s): galaxies: active - galaxies: evolution - galaxies: starburst - infrared: galaxies - X-rays: galaxies

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