• DOI:10.1093/mnras/stv1881
• Corpus ID: 13821227

Cold Dust Emission from X-ray AGN in the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey: Dependence on Luminosity, Obscuration and AGN Activity

@article{Banerji2015ColdDE,
  title={Cold Dust Emission from X-ray AGN in the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey: Dependence on Luminosity, Obscuration and AGN Activity},
  author={Manda Banerji and Richard G. McMahon and Chris J. Willott and James E. Geach and C. M. Harrison and Susannah Alaghband-Zadeh and David M. Alexander and Nathan Bourne and K. E. K. Coppin and James S. Dunlop and Duncan Farrah and Matt J. Jarvis and M. J.Michalowski and M J Page and D. J. B. Smith and A. M. Swinbank and Myrto Symeonidis and Paul van der Werf},
  journal={Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
  year={2015},
  volume={454},
  pages={419-438}
}

• M. Banerji, R. McMahon, +15 authors P. D. Werf
• Published 31 August 2015
• Physics
• Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

We study the 850um emission in X-ray selected AGN in the 2 sq-deg COSMOS
field using new data from the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey. We find 19 850um
bright X-ray AGN in a high-sensitivity region covering 0.89 sq-deg with flux
densities of S850=4-10 mJy. The 19 AGN span the full range in redshift and hard
X-ray luminosity covered by the sample - 0.71 X-ray AGN - S850=0.71+/-0.08mJy. We explore
trends in the stacked 850um flux densities with redshift, finding no evolution
in the average cold dust emission over the redshift range probed. For Type 1
AGN, there is no significant correlation between the stacked 850um flux and
hard X-ray luminosity. However, in Type 2 AGN the stacked submm flux is a
factor of 2 higher at high luminosities. When averaging over all X-ray
luminosities, no significant differences are found in the stacked submm fluxes
of Type 1 and Type 2 AGN as well as AGN separated on the basis of X-ray
hardness ratios and optical-to-infrared colours. However, at log10(LX) >44.4,
dependences in average submm flux on the optical-to-infrared colours become
more pronounced. We argue that these high luminosity AGN represent a transition
from a secular to a merger-driven evolutionary phase where the star formation
rates and accretion luminosities are more tightly coupled. Stacked AGN 850um
fluxes are compared to the stacked fluxes of a mass-matched sample of K-band
selected non-AGN galaxies. We find that at 10.5<log10(M*/M0)<11.5, the non-AGN
850um fluxes are 1.5-2x higher than in Type 2 AGN of equivalent mass. We
suggest these differences are due to the presence of massive dusty, red
starburst galaxies in the K-band selected non-AGN sample, which are not present
in optically selected catalogues covering a smaller area.