The <i>eROSITA</i> final equatorial-depth survey (eFEDS): host-galaxy demographics of X-ray AGNs with Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam

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  • Junyao Li
    Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , Urbana, IL 61801 , USA
  • John D Silverman
    Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, The University of Tokyo , Kashiwa 277-8583 (Kavli IPMU, WPI) , Japan
  • Andrea Merloni
    Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE) , Giessenbachstrasse 1, D-85748 Garching bei München , Germany
  • Mara Salvato
    Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE) , Giessenbachstrasse 1, D-85748 Garching bei München , Germany
  • Johannes Buchner
    Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE) , Giessenbachstrasse 1, D-85748 Garching bei München , Germany
  • Andy Goulding
    Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University , 4 Ivy Lane, Princeton, NJ 08544 , USA
  • Teng Liu
    Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE) , Giessenbachstrasse 1, D-85748 Garching bei München , Germany
  • Riccardo Arcodia
    Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE) , Giessenbachstrasse 1, D-85748 Garching bei München , Germany
  • Johan Comparat
    Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE) , Giessenbachstrasse 1, D-85748 Garching bei München , Germany
  • Xuheng Ding
    Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, The University of Tokyo , Kashiwa 277-8583 (Kavli IPMU, WPI) , Japan
  • Kohei Ichikawa
    Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE) , Giessenbachstrasse 1, D-85748 Garching bei München , Germany
  • Masatoshi Imanishi
    National Astronomical Observatory of Japan , 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588 , Japan
  • Toshihiro Kawaguchi
    Department of Economics, Management and Information Science, Onomichi City University , Onomichi, Hiroshima 722-8506 , Japan
  • Lalitwadee Kawinwanichakij
    Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, The University of Tokyo , Kashiwa 277-8583 (Kavli IPMU, WPI) , Japan
  • Yoshiki Toba
    National Astronomical Observatory of Japan , 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588 , Japan

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<jats:title>ABSTRACT</jats:title> <jats:p>We investigate the physical properties, such as star-forming activity, disc versus bulge nature, galaxy size, and obscuration of 3811 SRG/eROSITA-detected AGNs at 0.2 &lt; z &lt; 0.8 in the eFEDS field. Using Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam imaging data in the grizy bands, we measure the structural and stellar properties for their host galaxies by performing a 2D AGN-host image decomposition. We find that (1) AGNs can contribute significantly to the total optical light down to ${\rm log}\, L_{\rm X}\sim 42.5\ \rm erg\ s^{-1}$, thus ignoring the AGN component can significantly bias the structural measurements; (2) AGN hosts are predominately star-forming galaxies at ${\rm log}\, \mathcal {M}_\star \lesssim 11.3\, \mathrm{M}_\odot$; (3) the bulk of AGNs (64 per cent) reside in galaxies with significant stellar discs ($\rm S\acute{e}rsic$ index n &lt; 2), while their host galaxies become increasingly bulge dominated (n ∼ 4) and quiescent at ${\rm log}\, \mathcal {M}_\star \gtrsim 11.0\, \mathrm{M}_\odot$; (4) the size–stellar mass relation of AGN hosts tends to lie between that of inactive (i.e. non-AGN) star-forming, and quiescent galaxies, suggesting that the physical mechanism responsible for building the central stellar density also efficiently fuel the black hole growth; (5) the hosts of X-ray unobscured AGNs are biased towards face-on systems, suggesting that some of the obscuration of the nuclei could come from galaxy-scale gas and dust. This will bias against the detection of unobscured AGNs in gas-rich star-forming galaxies, which may partly account for the deficiency of star-forming discs as host galaxies for the most massive AGNs (missing star-forming fraction up to $\sim 40{{\ \rm per\ cent}}$). Our results are consistent with a scenario in which the black hole and galaxy transform in structure and star-forming activity while grow in mass, as desired to establish the local $\mathcal {M}_{\rm BH}-\mathcal {M}_{\rm bulge}$ relation.</jats:p>

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