Powerful Radio-Loud Quasars are Triggered by Galaxy Mergers in the Cosmic Bright Ages

While supermassive black holes are ubiquitous features of galactic nuclei, only a small minority are observed during episodes of luminous accretion. The physical mechanism(s) driving the onset of fueling and ignition in these active galactic nuclei (AGN) are still largely unknown for many galaxies a...

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Hauptverfasser: Breiding, Peter, Chiaberge, Marco, Lambrides, Erini, Meyer, Eileen T, Willner, S P, Hilbert, Bryan, Haas, Martin, Miley, George, Perlman, Eric S, Barthel, Peter, O'Dea, Christopher P, Capetti, Alessandro, Wilkes, Belinda, Baum, Stefi A, Macchetto, Duccio F, Tremblay, Grant, Norman, Colin
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description While supermassive black holes are ubiquitous features of galactic nuclei, only a small minority are observed during episodes of luminous accretion. The physical mechanism(s) driving the onset of fueling and ignition in these active galactic nuclei (AGN) are still largely unknown for many galaxies and AGN-selection criteria. Attention has focused on AGN triggering by means of major galaxy mergers gravitationally funneling gas towards the galactic center, with evidence both for and against this scenario. However, several recent studies have found that radio-loud AGN overwhelmingly reside in ongoing or recent major galaxy mergers. In this study, we test the hypothesis that major galaxy mergers are important triggers for radio-loud AGN activity in powerful quasars during cosmic noon (1 < z < 2). To this end, we compare Hubble Space Telescope WFC3/IR observations of the z > 1 3CR radio-loud broad-lined quasars to three matched radio-quiet quasar control samples. We find strong evidence for major-merger activity in nearly all radio-loud AGN, in contrast to the much lower merger fraction in the radio-quiet AGN. These results suggest major galaxy mergers are key ingredients to launching powerful radio jets. Given many of our radio-loud quasars are blue, our results present a possible challenge to the "blow-out" paradigm of galaxy evolution models in which blue quasars are the quiescent end result following a period of red quasar feedback initiated by a galaxy merger. Finally, we find a tight correlation between black hole mass and host galaxy luminosity for these different high-redshift AGN samples inconsistent with those observed for local elliptical galaxies.
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Astronomical models
Deposition
Elliptical galaxies
Galactic evolution
Galaxy mergers & collisions
Hubble Space Telescope
Luminosity
Physics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Quasars
Radio jets (astronomy)
Red shift
Space telescopes
Stars & galaxies
Supermassive black holes
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