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

No significant evolution of relations between black hole mass and galaxy total stellar mass up to z ∼ 2.5
No significant evolution of relations between black hole mass and galaxy total stellar mass up to z ∼ 2.5
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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Suh, Hyewon
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Suh, Hyewon, Civano, Francesca, Trakhtenbrot, Benny, Shankar, Francesco, Hasinger, Günther, Sanders, David B. and Allevato, Viola (2020) No significant evolution of relations between black hole mass and galaxy total stellar mass up to z ∼ 2.5. The Astrophysical Journal, 889 (1), [32]. (doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab5f5f).

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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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Accepted/In Press date: 4 December 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 22 January 2020
Additional Information: Publisher Copyright: © 2020. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved..

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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/438348
ISSN: 0004-637X
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Date deposited: 06 Mar 2020 17:31
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Author: Hyewon Suh
Author: Francesca Civano
Author: Benny Trakhtenbrot
Author: Günther Hasinger
Author: David B. Sanders
Author: Viola Allevato

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