2014/12/03 by A. Khan-Ali, F. J. Carrera, Khan-Ali, A. +12
Engineering · Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques #Advanced X-ray and CT Imaging #Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA) #FOS: Physical sciences #Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications #astro-ph.GA
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1412.1250
6 pages, 6 figures, SEA 2014 proceedings
arxiv created 2014/12/03 · openalex publication_date 2014/12/03 · arxiv updated 2014/12/04 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We present a detailed study of a X -ray selected sample of 5 submillimeter bright QSOs at z∼2, where the highest rates of star formation (SF) and further growth of black holes (BH) occur. Therefore, this sample is a great laboratory to investigate the co-evolution of star formation and AGN. We present here the analysis of the spectral energy distributions (SED) of the 5 QSOS, including new data from Herschel PACS and SPIRE. Both AGN components (direct and reprocessed) and like Star Formation (SF) are needed to model its SED. From the SED and their UV-optical spectra we have estimated the mass of the black hole (MBH = 109 - 1010 MSUN) and bolometric luminosities of AGN (LBOL = (0.8-20) × 1013 LSUN). These objects show very high luminosities in the far infrared range (at the H/ULIRG levels) and very high rates of SF (SFR = 400-1400 MSUN/y). Known their current SFR and their BH masses, we deduce that their host galaxies must be already very massive, or would not have time to get to the local relation between BH mass and bulge. Finally, we found evidence of a possible correlation between the column density of ionized gas detected in X-rays (NHion) and SFR, which would provide a link between AGN and SF processes.