Evidence for merger-driven growth in luminous, high-z, obscured AGNs in the CANDELS/COSMOS field

While major mergers have long been proposed as a driver of both active galactic nucleus (AGN) activity and the MBH–sbulge relation, studies of moderate to high-redshift Seyfert-luminosity AGN hosts have found little evidence for enhanced rates of interactions. However, both theory and observation s...

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Main Authors: Donley, J. L., Kartaltepe, J., Kocevski, D., Salvato, M., Santini, P., Suh, H., Civano, F., Koekemoer, A.M., Trump, J., Brusa, M., Cardamone, C., Castro, A., Cisternas, M., Conselice, C., Croton, D., Hathi, N., Liu, C., Lucas, R.A., Nair, P., Rosario, D., Sanders, D., Simmons, B., Villforth, C., Alexander, D.M., Bell, E.F., Faber, S.M., Grogin, N.A., Lotz, J., McIntosh, D.H., Nagao, T.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Astronomical Society 2018
Online Access:http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49662/
http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49662/
http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49662/
http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49662/1/Donley_2018_ApJ_853_63.pdf