Scrutinising evidence for the triggering of Active Galactic Nuclei in the outskirts of massive galaxy clusters at $z\approx1$
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| author | Rodríguez, Iván Muñoz Georgakakis, Antonis Shankar, Francesco Ruiz, Ángel Bonoli, Silvia Comparat, Johan Koulouridis, Elias Lapi, Andrea Almeida, Cristina Ramos |
| author_facet | Rodríguez, Iván Muñoz Georgakakis, Antonis Shankar, Francesco Ruiz, Ángel Bonoli, Silvia Comparat, Johan Koulouridis, Elias Lapi, Andrea Almeida, Cristina Ramos |
| contents | Environmental effects are believed to play an important yet poorly understood role in triggering accretion events onto the supermassive black holes (SMBHs) of galaxies (Active Galactic Nuclei; AGN). Massive clusters, which represent the densest structures in the Universe, provide an excellent laboratory to isolate environmental effects and study their impact on black hole growth. In this work, we critically review observational evidence for the preferential activation of SMBHs in the outskirts of galaxy clusters. We develop a semi-empirical model under the assumption that the incidence of AGN in galaxies is independent of environment. We demonstrate that the model is broadly consistent with recent observations on the AGN halo occupation at $z=0.2$, although it may overpredict satellite AGN in massive halos at that low redshift. We then use this model to interpret the projected radial distribution of X-ray sources around high redshift ($z\approx1$) massive ($>5 \times 10^{14} \, M_\odot$) clusters, which show excess counts outside their virial radius. Such an excess naturally arises in our model as a result of sample variance. Up to 20% of the simulated projected radial distributions show excess counts similar to the observations, which are however, because of background/foreground AGN and hence, not physically associated with the cluster. Our analysis emphasises the importance of projection effects and shows that current observations of $z\approx1$ clusters remain inconclusive on the activation of SMBHs during infall. |
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| spellingShingle | Scrutinising evidence for the triggering of Active Galactic Nuclei in the outskirts of massive galaxy clusters at $z\approx1$ Rodríguez, Iván Muñoz Georgakakis, Antonis Shankar, Francesco Ruiz, Ángel Bonoli, Silvia Comparat, Johan Koulouridis, Elias Lapi, Andrea Almeida, Cristina Ramos Astrophysics of Galaxies High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Environmental effects are believed to play an important yet poorly understood role in triggering accretion events onto the supermassive black holes (SMBHs) of galaxies (Active Galactic Nuclei; AGN). Massive clusters, which represent the densest structures in the Universe, provide an excellent laboratory to isolate environmental effects and study their impact on black hole growth. In this work, we critically review observational evidence for the preferential activation of SMBHs in the outskirts of galaxy clusters. We develop a semi-empirical model under the assumption that the incidence of AGN in galaxies is independent of environment. We demonstrate that the model is broadly consistent with recent observations on the AGN halo occupation at $z=0.2$, although it may overpredict satellite AGN in massive halos at that low redshift. We then use this model to interpret the projected radial distribution of X-ray sources around high redshift ($z\approx1$) massive ($>5 \times 10^{14} \, M_\odot$) clusters, which show excess counts outside their virial radius. Such an excess naturally arises in our model as a result of sample variance. Up to 20% of the simulated projected radial distributions show excess counts similar to the observations, which are however, because of background/foreground AGN and hence, not physically associated with the cluster. Our analysis emphasises the importance of projection effects and shows that current observations of $z\approx1$ clusters remain inconclusive on the activation of SMBHs during infall. |
| title | Scrutinising evidence for the triggering of Active Galactic Nuclei in the outskirts of massive galaxy clusters at $z\approx1$ |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07060 |