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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 660, 期 1, 页码 L19-L22出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/517922
关键词
galaxies : active; galaxies : interactions; galaxies : nuclei; infrared : galaxies; X-rays : galaxies
We visually and quantitatively determine the host galaxy morphologies of 94 intermediate-redshift (0.2 <= z < 2) active galactic nuclei (AGNs), selected using Chandra X-ray data and Spitzer mid-infrared data in the Extended Groth Strip. Using recently developed morphology measures, the second-order moment of the brightest 20% of a galaxy's flux (M-20) and the Gini coefficient, we find that X-ray-selected AGNs mostly reside in E/S0/Sa galaxies (53(-10)(+11)%), while IR-selected AGNs show no clear preference for host morphology. X-ray-selected AGN hosts are members of close pairs more often than the field population by a factor of, but most 3.3 +/- 1.4 of these pair members appear to be undisturbed early-type galaxies and do not tend to show direct evidence of gravitational perturbations or interactions. Thus, the activation mechanism for AGN activity remains unknown, even for pair members.
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