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NUCLEAR ACTIVITY IS MORE PREVALENT IN STAR-FORMING GALAXIES

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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 771, 期 1, 页码 -

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DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/771/1/63

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galaxies: active; galaxies: evolution; galaxies: star formation; infrared: galaxies; surveys; X-rays: galaxies

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  1. BMVIT (Austria)
  2. ESA-PRODEX (Belgium)
  3. CEA/CNES (France)
  4. DLR (Germany)
  5. ASI/INAF (Italy)
  6. CICYT/MCYT (Spain)
  7. Financiamento Basal
  8. CONICYT-Chile FONDECYT [1101024]
  9. FONDAP-CATA [15010003]
  10. Chandra X-ray Center [SAO SP1-12007B]
  11. Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/J00152X/1, ST/I001573/1] Funding Source: researchfish
  12. STFC [ST/K003119/1, ST/J00152X/1, ST/I001573/1] Funding Source: UKRI

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We explore the question of whether low and moderate luminosity active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are preferentially found in galaxies that are undergoing a transition from active star formation (SF) to quiescence. This notion has been suggested by studies of the UV-optical colors of AGN hosts, which find them to be common among galaxies in the so-called Green Valley, a region of galaxy color space believed to be composed mostly of galaxies undergoing SF quenching. Combining the deepest current X-ray and Herschel/PACS far-infrared (FIR) observations of the two Chandra Deep Fields with redshifts, stellar masses, and rest-frame photometry derived from the extensive and uniform multi-wavelength data in these fields, we compare the rest-frame U - V color distributions and star formation rate distributions of AGNs and carefully constructed samples of inactive control galaxies. The UV-to-optical colors of AGNs are consistent with equally massive inactive galaxies at redshifts out to z similar to 2, but we show that such colors are poor tracers of SF. While the FIR distributions of both star-forming AGNs and star-forming inactive galaxies are statistically similar, we show that AGNs are preferentially found in star-forming host galaxies, or, in other words, AGNs are less likely to be found in weakly star-forming or quenched galaxies. We postulate that, among X-ray-selected AGNs of low and moderate accretion luminosities, the supply of cold gas primarily determines the accretion rate distribution of the nuclear black holes.

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