No Significant Evolution of Relations between Black Hole Mass and Galaxy Total Stellar Mass up to z ∼ 2.5

Hyewon Suh, Francesca Civano, Benny Trakhtenbrot, Francesco Shankar, Günther Hasinger, David B. Sanders, Viola Allevato

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Abstract

We investigate the cosmic evolution of the ratio between black hole (BH) mass (M BH) and host galaxy total stellar mass (M stellar) out to z ∼ 2.5 for a sample of 100 X-ray-selected moderate-luminosity, broad-line active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the Chandra-COSMOS Legacy Survey. By taking advantage of the deep multiwavelength photometry and spectroscopy in the COSMOS field, we measure in a uniform way the galaxy total stellar mass using an spectral energy distribution decomposition technique and the BH mass based on broad emission line measurements and single-epoch virial estimates. Our sample of AGN host galaxies has total stellar masses of 1010-12 M o-, and BH masses of 107.0-9.5 M o-. Combining our sample with the relatively bright AGN samples from the literature, we find no significant evolution of the M BH-M stellar relation with the BH-to-host total stellar mass ratio of M BH/M stellar ∼ 0.3% at all redshifts probed. We conclude that the average BH-to-host stellar mass ratio appears to be consistent with the local value within the uncertainties, suggesting a lack of evolution of the M BH-M stellar relation up to z ∼ 2.5.

Original languageEnglish
Article number32
JournalAstrophysical Journal
Volume889
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 20 Jan 2020

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Horizon 2020 Framework Programme749348

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