XXL-HSC: The link between AGN activity and star formation in the Early Universe ($z⩾3.5$)

Abstract

In this work, we aimed at investigating the star formation rate of active galactic nuclei host galaxies in the early Universe. To this end, we constructed a sample of 149 luminous (${\mathrm{L}}_{2-10keV}>10^{44}\mathrm{erg}{\mathrm{s}}^{-1}$) X-ray AGNs at $\mathrm{z}\ge 3.5$ selected in three fields with different depths and observed areas (Chandra COSMOS Legacy survey, XMM-XXL North and eFEDS). We built their spectral energy distributions (SED) using available multi-wavelength photometry from X-rays up to far-IR. Then, we estimated the stellar mass, M${}_{\ast }$, and the SFR of the AGNs using the X-CIGALE SED fitting algorithm. After applying several quality criteria, we ended up with 89 high-z sources. More than half (55\%) of the X-ray sample have spectroscopic redshifts. Based on our analysis, our high-z X-ray AGNs live in galaxies with median ${\mathrm{M}}_{\ast }=5.6\times 10^{10}{\mathrm{M}}_{\odot }$ and $\mathrm{SF}{\mathrm{R}}_{\ast }\approx 240{\mathrm{M}}_{\odot }\mathrm{y}{\mathrm{r}}^{-1}$. The majority of the high-z sources ($\sim 89$\%) were found inside or above the main sequence (MS) of star-forming galaxies. Estimation of the normalised SFR, $\mathrm{SF}{\mathrm{R}}_{\mathrm{NORM}}$, defined as the ratio of the SFR of AGNs to the SFR of MS galaxies, showed that the SFR of AGNs is enhanched by a factor of $\sim 1.8$ compared to non-AGN star-forming systems. Combining our results with previous studies at lower redshifts, we confirmed that $\mathrm{SF}{\mathrm{R}}_{\mathrm{NORM}}$ does not evolve with redshift. Using the specific BHAR (i.e., ${\mathrm{L}}_{\mathrm{X}}$ divided by ${\mathrm{M}}_{\ast }$), ${\lambda }_{\mathrm{BHAR}}$, that can be used as a tracer of the Eddington ratio, we found that the bulk of AGNs that lie inside or above the MS have higher specific accretion rates compared to sources below the MS. Finally, we found indications that the SFR of the most massive AGN host galaxies ($\log ({\mathrm{M}}_{\ast }/{\mathrm{M}}_{\odot })>10^{11.5-12}$) remains roughly constant as a function of M${}_{\ast }$, in agreement with the SFR of MS star-forming galaxies.

Accepted for publication in A&A. 19 pages, 12 figures (+6 in Appendix), 4 tables

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