Radio-AGN Feedback: When the Little Ones were Monsters

W. L. Williams; H. J. A. Röttgering

doi:10.1093/mnras/stv692

Radio-AGN Feedback: When the Little Ones were Monsters

W. L. Williams, H. J. A. Röttgering

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We present a study of the evolution of the fraction of radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGN) as a function of their host stellar mass. We make use of two samples of radio galaxies: one in the local universe, $0.01 10^{24}$ W/Hz at z ~ 1-2 while the radio-loud fraction for higher mass galaxies ($M_* > 10^{11.25}$ M$_{\odot}$) remains the same. We argue that this increase is driven largely by the increase in cold or radiative mode accretion with increasing cold gas supply at earlier epochs. The increasing population of low mass Radio-Loud AGN can thus explain the upturn in the Radio Luminosity Function (RLF) at high redshift which is important for understanding the impact of AGN feedback in galaxy evolution.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1538-1545
Number of pages	8
Journal	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume	450
Issue number	2
Early online date	25 Apr 2015
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv692
Publication status	Published - 21 Jun 2015

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