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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 729, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/729/2/109
Keywords
galaxies: active; galaxies: evolution; infrared: galaxies; quasars: general; X-rays: galaxies
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- NSF [AST 1008067]
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1008067] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Telescopes like Herschel and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) are creating new opportunities to study sources in the far-infrared (FIR), a wavelength region dominated by cold dust emission. Probing cold dust in active galaxies allows for study of the star formation history of active galactic nucleus (AGN) hosts. The FIR is also an important spectral region for observing AGNs which are heavily enshrouded by dust, such as Compton thick (CT) AGNs. By using information from deep X-ray surveys and cosmic X-ray background synthesis models, we compute Cloudy photoionization simulations which are used to predict the spectral energy distribution (SED) of AGNs in the FIR. Expected differential number counts of AGNs and their host galaxies are calculated in the Herschel bands. The expected contribution of AGNs and their hosts to the cosmic infrared background (CIRB) and the infrared luminosity density are also computed. Multiple star formation scenarios are investigated using a modified blackbody star formation SED. It is found that FIR observations at similar to 500 mu m are an excellent tool in determining the star formation history of AGN hosts. Additionally, the AGN contribution to the CIRB can be used to determine whether star formation in AGN hosts evolves differently than in normal galaxies. The contribution of CT AGNs to the bright end differential number counts and to the bright source infrared luminosity density is a good test of AGN evolution models where quasars are triggered by major mergers.
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