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The clustering of X-ray AGN at 0.5 < z < 4.5: host galaxies dictate dark matter halo mass

Krishnan, Charutha; Almaini, Omar; Hatch, Nina A; Wilkinson, Aaron; Maltby, David T; Conselice, Christopher J; Kocevski, Dale; Suh, Hyewon; Wild, Vivienne

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Authors

Charutha Krishnan

OMAR ALMAINI omar.almaini@nottingham.ac.uk
Professor of Astrophysics

Aaron Wilkinson

Dr. DAVID MALTBY David.Maltby@nottingham.ac.uk
Teaching Associate in Physics Andastronomy

Christopher J Conselice

Dale Kocevski

Hyewon Suh

Vivienne Wild



Abstract

We analyse 870 μm Atacama Large Millimetre Array (ALMA) dust continuum detections of 41 canonically selected z ≃ 3 Lyman-break galaxies (LBGs), as well as 209 ALMA-undetected LBGs, in follow-up of SCUBA-2 mapping of the UKIDSS Ultra Deep Survey (UDS) field. We find that our ALMA-bright LBGs lie significantly off the local IRX-beta relation and have relatively bluer rest-frame UV slopes (as parametrized by β), given their high values of the ‘infrared excess’ (IRX ≡ LIR/LUV), relative to the average ‘local’ IRX-β relation. We attribute this finding in part to the young ages of the underlying stellar populations but we find that the main reason behind the unusually blue UV slopes are the relatively shallow slopes of the corresponding dust attenuation curves. We show that, when stellar masses, M*, are being established via SED fitting, it is absolutely crucial to allow the attenuation curves to vary (rather than fixing it on Calzetti-like law), where we find that the inappropriate curves may underestimate the resulting stellar masses by a factor of ≃2–3× on average. In addition, we find these LBGs to have relatively high specific star-formation rates (sSFRs), dominated by the dust component, as quantified via the fraction of obscured star formation (fobs≡SFRIR/SFRUV+IR)⁠. We conclude that the ALMA-bright LBGs are, by selection, massive galaxies undergoing a burst of a star formation (large sSFRs, driven, for example, by secular or merger processes), with a likely geometrical disconnection of the dust and stars, responsible for producing shallow dust attenuation curves.

Citation

Krishnan, C., Almaini, O., Hatch, N. A., Wilkinson, A., Maltby, D. T., Conselice, C. J., …Wild, V. (2020). The clustering of X-ray AGN at 0.5 < z < 4.5: host galaxies dictate dark matter halo mass. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 492(4), 4927–4944. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa815

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Mar 19, 2020
Online Publication Date Mar 27, 2020
Publication Date 2020-03
Deposit Date Jan 18, 2021
Publicly Available Date Jan 20, 2021
Journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Print ISSN 0035-8711
Electronic ISSN 1365-2966
Publisher Oxford University Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 492
Issue 4
Pages 4927–4944
DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa815
Keywords Space and Planetary Science; Astronomy and Astrophysics
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/4211600
Publisher URL https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/492/4/4927/5709926

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