1. A Wide and Deep Exploration of Radio Galaxies with Subaru HSC (WERGS). IV. Rapidly Growing (Super)Massive Black Holes in Extremely Radio-loud Galaxies
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Alexander Wagner, Xiaoyang Chen, Bovornpratch Vijarnwannaluk, Hikaru Fukuchi, Taiki Kawamuro, Maria Charisi, Malte Schramm, Yoshiki Matsuoka, Masayuki Akiyama, Takuji Yamashita, Masaru Kajisawa, Kohei Inayoshi, Tohru Nagao, Masayuki Tanaka, Chien-Hsiu Lee, Wanqiu He, Hyewon Suh, Janek Pflugradt, Kohei Ichikawa, Yoshiki Toba, Hisakazu Uchiyama, and Yoshihiro Ueda
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Active galactic nucleus ,Radio galaxy ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Astrophysics ,Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics ,Type (model theory) ,01 natural sciences ,symbols.namesake ,0103 physical sciences ,010303 astronomy & astrophysics ,Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics ,High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) ,Physics ,Supermassive black hole ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Order (ring theory) ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,Quasar ,Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies ,Galaxy ,Space and Planetary Science ,Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA) ,Eddington luminosity ,symbols ,Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena - Abstract
We present the optical and infrared properties of 39 extremely radio-loud galaxies discovered by cross-matching the Subaru/Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) deep optical imaging survey and VLA/FIRST 1.4 GHz radio survey. The recent Subaru/HSC strategic survey revealed optically-faint radio galaxies (RG) down to $g_\mathrm{AB} \sim 26$, opening a new parameter space of extremely radio-loud galaxies (ERGs) with radio-loudness parameter of $\log \mathcal{R}_\mathrm{rest} = \log (f_{1.4 \mathrm{GHz,rest}}/f_{g,\mathrm{rest}}) >4$. Because of their optical faintness and small number density of $\sim1~$deg$^{-2}$, such ERGs were difficult to find in the previous wide but shallow, or deep but small area optical surveys. ERGs show intriguing properties that are different from the conventional RGs: (1) most ERGs reside above or on the star-forming main-sequence, and some of them might be low-mass galaxies with $\log (M_\star/M_\odot) < 10$. (2) ERGs exhibit a high specific black hole accretion rate, reaching the order of the Eddington limit. The intrinsic radio-loudness ($\mathcal{R}_\mathrm{int}$), defined by the ratio of jet power over bolometric radiation luminosity, is one order of magnitude higher than that of radio quasars. This suggests that ERGs harbor a unique type of active galactic nuclei (AGN) that show both powerful radiations and jets. Therefore, ERGs are prominent candidates of very rapidly growing black holes reaching Eddington-limited accretion just before the onset of intensive AGN feedback., 20 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
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- 2021