Morphologies of z ∼ 0.7 AGN host galaxies in CANDELS: no trend of merger incidence with AGN luminosity

Villforth, C.; Hamann, Fred; J. Rosario, D.; Santini, P.; J. McGrath, Elizabeth; van der Wel, Arjen; Chang, Yu-Yen; Guo, Yicheng; Dahlén, T.; F. Bell, Eric; J. Conselice, Christopher; Croton, Darren; Dekel, Avishai; M. Faber, S.; A. Grogin, Norman; S. Hamilton, Timothy; F. Hopkins, Philip; Juneau, S.; S. Kartaltepe, Jeyhan; D. Kocevski, Dale; M. Koekemoer, Anton; C. Koo, David; M. Lotz, Jennifer; H. McIntosh, Daniel; Mozena, Mark; S. Somerville, Rachel; Wild, Vivienne

doi:10.1093/mnras/stu173

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Morphologies of z ∼ 0.7 AGN host galaxies in CANDELS: no trend of merger incidence with AGN luminosity

Published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society • Feb 27, 2014

Authors:

C. Villforth

Fred Hamann

D. J. Rosario

Abstract

The processes that trigger active galactic nuclei (AGN) remain poorly understood. While lower luminosity AGN may be triggered by minor disturbances to the host galaxy, stronger disturbances are likely required to trigger luminous AGN. Major wet mergers of galaxies are ideal environments for AGN trig...

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Physics

Astrophysics

Galaxy

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