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TOOLS FOR COMPUTING THE AGN FEEDBACK: RADIO-LOUDNESS DISTRIBUTION AND THE KINETIC LUMINOSITY FUNCTION

Authors :
Fabrizio Fiore
G. Melini
F. La Franca
LA FRANCA, Fabio
Melini, G
Fiore, F.
Source :
The Astrophysical Journal. 718:368-379
Publication Year :
2010
Publisher :
American Astronomical Society, 2010.

Abstract

We studied the Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) radio emission from a compilation of hard X-ray selected samples, all observed in the 1.4 GHz band. A total of more than 1600 AGN with 2-10 keV de-absorbed luminosities higher than 10^42 erg/s were used. For a sub-sample of about 50 z\lsim 0.1 AGN it was possible to reach a ~80% fraction of radio detections and therefore, for the first time, it was possible to almost completely measure the probability distribution function of the ratio between the radio and the X-ray luminosity Rx=log[L(1.4)/Lx]. The probability distribution function of Rx was functionally fitted as dependent on the X-ray luminosity and redshift, P(Rx|Lx,z). It roughly spans over 6 decades (-7<br />Comment: 13 pages, ApJsty; ApJ in press

Details

ISSN :
15384357 and 0004637X
Volume :
718
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
The Astrophysical Journal
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....0eebdf81ea6c247da1d00c6ce0d3e7ac
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/718/1/368