Revealing AGN, young and old stellar populations in HzRGs with PEGASE.3

The HeRGÉ (Herschel Radio Galaxy Evolution) project consists of a sample of 70 radio galaxies in the range 1 < z < 5.2. They benefit from continuous coverage from 3 to 870μm with Spitzer, Herschel and sub-mm ground-based instruments (SCUBA, LABOCA). As a calorimeter, IR is an excellent proxy t...

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Main Authors: Drouart, G., De Breuck, C., Vernet, J., Volmerange, B., Seymour, Nick
Format: Conference Paper
Published: 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/41782
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author Drouart, G.
De Breuck, C.
Vernet, J.
Volmerange, B.
Seymour, Nick
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De Breuck, C.
Vernet, J.
Volmerange, B.
Seymour, Nick
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description The HeRGÉ (Herschel Radio Galaxy Evolution) project consists of a sample of 70 radio galaxies in the range 1 < z < 5.2. They benefit from continuous coverage from 3 to 870μm with Spitzer, Herschel and sub-mm ground-based instruments (SCUBA, LABOCA). As a calorimeter, IR is an excellent proxy to estimate the contribution of both AGN and starburst, making of radio galaxies perfect candidates to provide new insights into the relationship between AGN and their host galaxies. The IR SED fitting with empirical templates reveals that radio galaxies are luminous and that their black holes and their host galaxies are not growing simultaneously. Extending the SED to optical/near-IR on a subsample of 12 radio galaxies spanning 1 < z < 4 reveal the necessity of three components to reproduce the observations. Making use of the evolutionary code PEGASE.3 and an AGN torus model, we are able to estimate parameters from the AGN torus, the evolved stellar population and the starburst (SB). They reveal that radio galaxies are massive, evolved, forming the bulk of their mass at very high redshift in a short timescale, but experience episodic, strong SB events, often associated with an AGN activity.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-417822017-09-13T14:18:22Z Revealing AGN, young and old stellar populations in HzRGs with PEGASE.3 Drouart, G. De Breuck, C. Vernet, J. Volmerange, B. Seymour, Nick The HeRGÉ (Herschel Radio Galaxy Evolution) project consists of a sample of 70 radio galaxies in the range 1 < z < 5.2. They benefit from continuous coverage from 3 to 870μm with Spitzer, Herschel and sub-mm ground-based instruments (SCUBA, LABOCA). As a calorimeter, IR is an excellent proxy to estimate the contribution of both AGN and starburst, making of radio galaxies perfect candidates to provide new insights into the relationship between AGN and their host galaxies. The IR SED fitting with empirical templates reveals that radio galaxies are luminous and that their black holes and their host galaxies are not growing simultaneously. Extending the SED to optical/near-IR on a subsample of 12 radio galaxies spanning 1 < z < 4 reveal the necessity of three components to reproduce the observations. Making use of the evolutionary code PEGASE.3 and an AGN torus model, we are able to estimate parameters from the AGN torus, the evolved stellar population and the starburst (SB). They reveal that radio galaxies are massive, evolved, forming the bulk of their mass at very high redshift in a short timescale, but experience episodic, strong SB events, often associated with an AGN activity. 2014 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/41782 10.1017/S174392131400413X restricted
spellingShingle Drouart, G.
De Breuck, C.
Vernet, J.
Volmerange, B.
Seymour, Nick
Revealing AGN, young and old stellar populations in HzRGs with PEGASE.3
title Revealing AGN, young and old stellar populations in HzRGs with PEGASE.3
title_full Revealing AGN, young and old stellar populations in HzRGs with PEGASE.3
title_fullStr Revealing AGN, young and old stellar populations in HzRGs with PEGASE.3
title_full_unstemmed Revealing AGN, young and old stellar populations in HzRGs with PEGASE.3
title_short Revealing AGN, young and old stellar populations in HzRGs with PEGASE.3
title_sort revealing agn, young and old stellar populations in hzrgs with pegase.3
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/41782