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Article Dans Une Revue Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Année : 2020

On the slow quenching of ℳ* galaxies: heavily obscured AGNs clarify the picture

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ABSTRACT We investigate the connection between X-ray and radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and the physical properties of their evolved and massive host galaxies, focussing on the mass-related quenching channel followed by $\mathcal {M}^\star (\simeq 10^{10.6} \, \mathrm{M}_\odot)$ galaxies in the rest-frame NUV–r versus r–K (NUVrK) colour diagram at 0.2 < z < 0.5. While our results confirm that (1) radio-loud AGNs are predominantly hosted by already-quenched and very massive ($M_*\gt 10^{11}\, \mathrm{M}_\odot$) galaxies, ruling out their feedback as a primary driver of $\mathcal {M}^\star$ galaxy quenching, we found that (2) X-ray AGNs affected by heavy obscuration of their soft X-ray emission are mostly hosted by $\mathcal {M}^\star$ galaxies that are in the process of quenching. This is consistent with a quenching scenario that involves mergers of (gas-poor) $\mathcal {M}^\star$ galaxies after the onset of the quenching process, i.e. a scenario where $\mathcal {M}^\star$ galaxy mergers are not the cause but rather an aftermath of the quenching mechanism(s). In that respect, we discuss how our results may support a picture where the slow quenching of $\mathcal {M}^\star$ galaxies happens due to halo–halo mergers along cosmic filaments.
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hal-03431950 , version 1 (21-05-2024)

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Thibaud Moutard, Nicola Malavasi, Marcin Sawicki, Stéphane Arnouts, Shruti Tripathi. On the slow quenching of ℳ* galaxies: heavily obscured AGNs clarify the picture. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2020, 495 (4), pp.4237-4247. ⟨10.1093/mnras/staa1434⟩. ⟨hal-03431950⟩
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