Accretion History of AGN: Estimating the Host Galaxy Properties in X-ray Luminous AGN from z=0-3

Abstract

We aim to determine the intrinsic far-Infrared (far-IR) emission of X-ray-luminous quasars over cosmic time. Using a 16 deg^2 region of the Stripe 82 field surveyed by XMM-Newton and Herschel Space Observatory, we identify 2905 X-ray luminous (LX > 10^42 erg/s) Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in the range z ~ 0-3. The IR is necessary to constrain host galaxy properties such as star formation rate (SFR) and gas mass. However, only 10% of our AGN are detected both in the X-ray and IR. Because 90% of the sample is undetected in the far-IR by Herschel, we explore the mean IR emission of these undetected sources by stacking their Herschel/SPIRE images in bins of X-ray luminosity and redshift. We create stacked spectral energy distributions from the optical to the far-IR, and estimate the median star formation rate, dust mass, stellar mass, and infrared luminosity using a fitting routine. We find that the stacked sources on average have similar SFR/L_bol ratios as IR detected sources. The majority of our sources fall on or above the main sequence line suggesting that X-ray selection alone does not predict the location of a galaxy on the main sequence. We also find that the gas depletion timescales of our AGN are similar to those of dusty star forming galaxies. This suggests that X-ray selected AGN host high star formation and that there are no signs of declining star formation.

26 pages, 14 figures, 5 tables, submitted to MNRAS

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