MaNGA AGN dwarf galaxies (MAD) -- I. A new sample of AGN in dwarf galaxies with spatially resolved spectroscopy

Abstract

The finding of active galactic nuclei (AGN) in dwarf galaxies has important implications for galaxy evolution and supermassive black hole formation models. Yet, how AGN in dwarf galaxies form is still debated, in part due to scant demographics. We make use of the MaNGA survey, comprising $\sim$10,000 galaxies at z $<$ 0.15, to identify AGN dwarf galaxies using a spaxel by spaxel classification in three spatially-resolved emission line diagnostic diagrams (the [NII-, [SII]- and [OI]-BPT) and the WHAN diagram. This yields a sample of 664 AGN dwarf galaxies, the largest to date, and an AGN fraction of $\sim 20\%$ that is significantly larger than that of single-fiber-spectroscopy studies (i.e. $\sim 1\%$). This can be explained by the lower bolometric luminosity ($<10^{42}$ erg s${}^{-1}$) and accretion rate (sub-Eddington) of the MaNGA AGN dwarf galaxies. We additionally identify 1,176 SF-AGN (classified as star-forming in the [NII]-BPT but as AGN in the [SII]- and [OI]-BPT), 122 Composite, and 173 LINER sources. The offset between the optical center of the galaxy and the median position of the AGN spaxels is more than 3 arcsec for $\sim$62\% of the AGN, suggesting that some could be off-nuclear. We also identify seven new broad-line AGN with log $M_{\mathrm{BH}}$ = 5.0 - 5.9 $M_{\odot }$. Our results show how integral-field spectroscopy is a powerful tool for uncovering faint and low-accretion AGN and better constraining the demographics of AGN in dwarf galaxies.

18 pages, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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