Published January 20, 2020 | Version v1
Journal article

No Significant Evolution of Relations between Black Hole Mass and Galaxy Total Stellar Mass Up to z ∼ 2.5

  • 1. Subaru Telescope, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), 650 North A'ohoku Place, Hilo, HI 96720 (United States)
  • 2. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, 02138 (United States)
  • 3. School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978 (Israel)
  • 4. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Highfield SO17 1BJ (United Kingdom)
  • 5. European Space Astronomy Centre (ESA/ESAC), Director of Science, E-28691 Villanueva de la Cañada, Madrid (Spain)
  • 6. Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, 2680 Woodlawn Drive, Honolulu, HI 96822 (United States)
  • 7. Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, I-56126 Pisa (Italy)

Description

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 BHM 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 BHM stellar relation up to z ∼ 2.5.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab5f5f

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Astrophysical Journal
Journal Volume
889
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
[11 p.]
ISSN
0004-637X
CODEN
ASJOAB

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
52065032
Subject category
S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
Descriptors DEI
BLACK HOLES; DECOMPOSITION; EMISSION; ENERGY SPECTRA; GALAXY NUCLEI; LUMINOSITY; MASS; PHOTOMETRY; RED SHIFT; SPECTROSCOPY
Descriptors DEC
CHEMICAL REACTIONS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; SPECTRA