The LOFAR-eFEDS survey: The incidence of radio and X-ray AGN and the disk-jet connection

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Autori principali: Igo, Z., Merloni, A., Hoang, D., Buchner, J., Liu, T., Salvato, M., Arcodia, R., Bellstedt, S., Brüggen, M., Croston, J. H., de Gasperin, F., Georgakakis, A., Hardcastle, M. J., Nandra, K., Ni, Q., Pasini, T., Shimwell, T., Wolf, J.
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author Igo, Z.
Merloni, A.
Hoang, D.
Buchner, J.
Liu, T.
Salvato, M.
Arcodia, R.
Bellstedt, S.
Brüggen, M.
Croston, J. H.
de Gasperin, F.
Georgakakis, A.
Hardcastle, M. J.
Nandra, K.
Ni, Q.
Pasini, T.
Shimwell, T.
Wolf, J.
author_facet Igo, Z.
Merloni, A.
Hoang, D.
Buchner, J.
Liu, T.
Salvato, M.
Arcodia, R.
Bellstedt, S.
Brüggen, M.
Croston, J. H.
de Gasperin, F.
Georgakakis, A.
Hardcastle, M. J.
Nandra, K.
Ni, Q.
Pasini, T.
Shimwell, T.
Wolf, J.
contents Radio jets are present in a diverse sample of AGN. However, the mechanisms of jet powering are not fully understood, and it is yet unclear to what extent they obey mass-invariant scaling relations, similar to those found for the triggering and fuelling of X-ray selected AGN. We study the incidence of eROSITA/eFEDS X-ray and LOFAR radio AGN as a function of several stellar mass normalised AGN power indicators. A new sample of radio AGN from the LOFAR-eFEDS survey is defined and we publicly release this catalogue, including host galaxy counterparts from the Legacy Survey DR9, LOFAR radio morphologies and host galaxy properties from the complete, spectroscopic (z<0.4) GAMA09 survey. The fraction of GAMA09 galaxies hosting radio, X-ray and both radio and X-ray AGN are calculated as a function of the specific black hole kinetic ($λ_{\rm Jet}$) and radiative ($λ_{\rm Edd}$) power. The incidence of eFEDS X-ray AGN as a function of $λ_{\rm Edd}$ shows the same mass-invariance as found in past studies. Meanwhile, radio AGN, regardless of their morphology, are more likely to be hosted in more massive galaxies, at all $λ_{\rm Jet}$. Across the stellar mass range, the compact radio AGN incidence follows the same power-law distribution, showing that it is not only high mass galaxies that host high power radio AGN and vice versa. On the other hand, the incidence of compact and complex radio AGN is boosted at the highest jet powers, diverging from a simple power-law. Interestingly, this increased incidence cannot be explained by more powerful radio AGN lying in more dense environments which could naturally boost their radio luminosity. Overall, we show that statistical incidence studies are a powerful method to probe disk-jet coupling for different AGN accretion modes, although future work on a more reliable determination of jet power for diverse samples of radio AGN is needed.
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spellingShingle The LOFAR-eFEDS survey: The incidence of radio and X-ray AGN and the disk-jet connection
Igo, Z.
Merloni, A.
Hoang, D.
Buchner, J.
Liu, T.
Salvato, M.
Arcodia, R.
Bellstedt, S.
Brüggen, M.
Croston, J. H.
de Gasperin, F.
Georgakakis, A.
Hardcastle, M. J.
Nandra, K.
Ni, Q.
Pasini, T.
Shimwell, T.
Wolf, J.
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Astrophysics of Galaxies
Radio jets are present in a diverse sample of AGN. However, the mechanisms of jet powering are not fully understood, and it is yet unclear to what extent they obey mass-invariant scaling relations, similar to those found for the triggering and fuelling of X-ray selected AGN. We study the incidence of eROSITA/eFEDS X-ray and LOFAR radio AGN as a function of several stellar mass normalised AGN power indicators. A new sample of radio AGN from the LOFAR-eFEDS survey is defined and we publicly release this catalogue, including host galaxy counterparts from the Legacy Survey DR9, LOFAR radio morphologies and host galaxy properties from the complete, spectroscopic (z<0.4) GAMA09 survey. The fraction of GAMA09 galaxies hosting radio, X-ray and both radio and X-ray AGN are calculated as a function of the specific black hole kinetic ($λ_{\rm Jet}$) and radiative ($λ_{\rm Edd}$) power. The incidence of eFEDS X-ray AGN as a function of $λ_{\rm Edd}$ shows the same mass-invariance as found in past studies. Meanwhile, radio AGN, regardless of their morphology, are more likely to be hosted in more massive galaxies, at all $λ_{\rm Jet}$. Across the stellar mass range, the compact radio AGN incidence follows the same power-law distribution, showing that it is not only high mass galaxies that host high power radio AGN and vice versa. On the other hand, the incidence of compact and complex radio AGN is boosted at the highest jet powers, diverging from a simple power-law. Interestingly, this increased incidence cannot be explained by more powerful radio AGN lying in more dense environments which could naturally boost their radio luminosity. Overall, we show that statistical incidence studies are a powerful method to probe disk-jet coupling for different AGN accretion modes, although future work on a more reliable determination of jet power for diverse samples of radio AGN is needed.
title The LOFAR-eFEDS survey: The incidence of radio and X-ray AGN and the disk-jet connection
topic High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Astrophysics of Galaxies
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16943