No significant evolution of relations between black hole mass and galaxy total stellar mass up to z ∼ 2.5

Abstract

We investigate the cosmic evolution of the ratio between black hole (BH) mass (M BH) and host galaxy total stellar mass (M stellar) out to z ~ 2.5 for a sample of 100 X-ray-selected moderate-luminosity, broad-line active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the Chandra-COSMOS Legacy Survey. By taking advantage of the deep multiwavelength photometry and spectroscopy in the COSMOS field, we measure in a uniform way the galaxy total stellar mass using an spectral energy distribution decomposition technique and the BH mass based on broad emission line measurements and single-epoch virial estimates. Our sample of AGN host galaxies has total stellar masses of 1010−12 M ⊙, and BH masses of 107.0–9.5 M ⊙. Combining our sample with the relatively bright AGN samples from the literature, we find no significant evolution of the M BH–M stellar relation with the BH-to-host total stellar mass ratio of M BH/M stellar ~ 0.3% at all redshifts probed. We conclude that the average BH-to-host stellar mass ratio appears to be consistent with the local value within the uncertainties, suggesting a lack of evolution of the M BH–M stellar relation up to z ~ 2.5.

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