The Stellar Morphology & Size of X-ray-selected Active Galactic Nuclei Host Galaxies Revealed by JWST
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| author | Vijarnwannaluk, Bovornpratch Gao, Zhen-Kai Wang, Wei-Hao Chen, Chian-Chou Naufal, Abdurrahman Ranjan, Adarsh Hsieh, Bau-Ching Mondal, Chayan Mondal, Chayan Chang, Chih-Yuan Algera, Hiddo S. B. Liao, Li-Wen Akiyama, Masayuki Kim, Seong Jin Mizukoshi, Shoichiro Goto, Tomotsugo Chang, Yu-Yen Casey, Caitlin Kartaltepe, Jeyhan S. Akins, Hollis B. Shuntov, Marko Franco, Maximilien Harish, Santosh |
| author_facet | Vijarnwannaluk, Bovornpratch Gao, Zhen-Kai Wang, Wei-Hao Chen, Chian-Chou Naufal, Abdurrahman Ranjan, Adarsh Hsieh, Bau-Ching Mondal, Chayan Mondal, Chayan Chang, Chih-Yuan Algera, Hiddo S. B. Liao, Li-Wen Akiyama, Masayuki Kim, Seong Jin Mizukoshi, Shoichiro Goto, Tomotsugo Chang, Yu-Yen Casey, Caitlin Kartaltepe, Jeyhan S. Akins, Hollis B. Shuntov, Marko Franco, Maximilien Harish, Santosh |
| contents | We investigate the stellar shape and size-mass relationship of X-ray selected Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) host galaxies using the high-angular resolution and deep sensitivity in the near-infrared of the COSMOS-Web JWST survey field. We present the rest-frame 1-$μm$ size, stellar mass, Sersic index, axis-ratio, Gini-$M_{20}$ parameters of 690 moderate luminosity AGNs between redshift 0-3 and with stellar mass $\log M_s\sim 10.75$. We find that AGN host galaxies have an effective radius of 1-5 kpc, which is between star-forming (SFG) and quiescent galaxies (QGs) of the same stellar mass. AGN hosts have similar size-mass trends as SFG and QGs, being smaller at higher redshift for the same stellar mass. The slope of the size-mass relationship of AGN host galaxies is steeper than that of star-forming galaxies. Their rest-frame 1$μm$ stellar morphology indicates a significant spheroidal component. We observed a low merger fraction (6%) in our sample as well as substructures similar to disks, bars, and spiral arms in the residual images, which are in tension with evolutionary pathways that require major mergers. However, it may also be due to the different timescales between mergers and AGN activity. |
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| spellingShingle | The Stellar Morphology & Size of X-ray-selected Active Galactic Nuclei Host Galaxies Revealed by JWST Vijarnwannaluk, Bovornpratch Gao, Zhen-Kai Wang, Wei-Hao Chen, Chian-Chou Naufal, Abdurrahman Ranjan, Adarsh Hsieh, Bau-Ching Mondal, Chayan Mondal, Chayan Chang, Chih-Yuan Algera, Hiddo S. B. Liao, Li-Wen Akiyama, Masayuki Kim, Seong Jin Mizukoshi, Shoichiro Goto, Tomotsugo Chang, Yu-Yen Casey, Caitlin Kartaltepe, Jeyhan S. Akins, Hollis B. Shuntov, Marko Franco, Maximilien Harish, Santosh Astrophysics of Galaxies We investigate the stellar shape and size-mass relationship of X-ray selected Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) host galaxies using the high-angular resolution and deep sensitivity in the near-infrared of the COSMOS-Web JWST survey field. We present the rest-frame 1-$μm$ size, stellar mass, Sersic index, axis-ratio, Gini-$M_{20}$ parameters of 690 moderate luminosity AGNs between redshift 0-3 and with stellar mass $\log M_s\sim 10.75$. We find that AGN host galaxies have an effective radius of 1-5 kpc, which is between star-forming (SFG) and quiescent galaxies (QGs) of the same stellar mass. AGN hosts have similar size-mass trends as SFG and QGs, being smaller at higher redshift for the same stellar mass. The slope of the size-mass relationship of AGN host galaxies is steeper than that of star-forming galaxies. Their rest-frame 1$μm$ stellar morphology indicates a significant spheroidal component. We observed a low merger fraction (6%) in our sample as well as substructures similar to disks, bars, and spiral arms in the residual images, which are in tension with evolutionary pathways that require major mergers. However, it may also be due to the different timescales between mergers and AGN activity. |
| title | The Stellar Morphology & Size of X-ray-selected Active Galactic Nuclei Host Galaxies Revealed by JWST |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.13719 |