{"scopus_import":"1","publisher":"Oxford University Press","date_created":"2022-07-08T07:34:10Z","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","oa_version":"Preprint","oa":1,"status":"public","quality_controlled":"1","title":"The X-ray and radio activity of typical and luminous Ly α emitters from z ∼ 2 to z ∼ 6: Evidence for a diverse, evolving population","date_updated":"2022-08-18T11:25:31Z","article_processing_charge":"No","month":"04","day":"01","type":"journal_article","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"Despite recent progress in understanding Ly α emitters (LAEs), relatively little is known regarding their typical black hole activity across cosmic time. Here, we study the X-ray and radio properties of ∼4000 LAEs at 2.2 < z < 6 from the SC4K survey in the COSMOS field. We detect 254 (⁠6.8per cent±0.4per cent⁠) LAEs individually in the X-rays (S/N > 3) with an average luminosity of 1044.31±0.01ergs−1 and average black hole accretion rate (BHAR) of 0.72±0.01 M⊙ yr−1, consistent with moderate to high accreting active galactic neuclei (AGNs). We detect 120 sources in deep radio data (radio AGN fraction of 3.2per cent±0.3per cent⁠). The global AGN fraction (⁠8.6per cent±0.4per cent⁠) rises with Ly α luminosity and declines with increasing redshift. For X-ray-detected LAEs, Ly α luminosities correlate with the BHARs, suggesting that Ly α luminosity becomes a BHAR indicator. Most LAEs (⁠93.1per cent±0.6per cent⁠) at 2 < z < 6 have no detectable X-ray emission (BHARs < 0.017 M⊙ yr−1). The median star formation rate (SFR) of star-forming LAEs from Ly α and radio luminosities is 7.6+6.6−2.8 M⊙ yr−1. The black hole to galaxy growth ratio (BHAR/SFR) for LAEs is <0.0022, consistent with typical star-forming galaxies and the local BHAR/SFR relation. We conclude that LAEs at 2 < z < 6 include two different populations: an AGN population, where Ly α luminosity traces BHAR, and another with low SFRs which remain undetected in even the deepest X-ray stacks but is detected in the radio stacks."}],"main_file_link":[{"open_access":"1","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.11672"}],"issue":"3","extern":"1","date_published":"2020-04-01T00:00:00Z","publication_status":"published","year":"2020","volume":493,"intvolume":"       493","keyword":["Space and Planetary Science","Astronomy and Astrophysics","galaxies: active","galaxies: evolution","galaxies: high-redshift","quasars: supermassive black holes","galaxies: star formation","cosmology: observations","X-rays: galaxies"],"acknowledgement":"JM acknowledges the support of a Huygens PhD fellowship from Leiden University. We thank Camila Correa for help analysing snipshot merger trees. We thank the anonymous referee for constructive comments. We also thank Jarle Brinchmann, Rob Crain, Antonios Katsianis, Paola Popesso, and David Sobral for discussions and suggestions. We also thank the participants of the Lorentz Center workshop ‘A Decade of the Star-Forming Main Sequence’ held on 2017 September 4–8, for discussions and ideas. We have benefited from the public available programming language PYTHON, including the NUMPY, MATPLOTLIB, and SCIPY (Hunter 2007) packages and the TOPCAT analysis tool (Taylor 2013).","publication_identifier":{"eissn":["1365-2966"],"issn":["0035-8711"]},"external_id":{"arxiv":["1909.11672"]},"publication":"Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society","author":[{"first_name":"João","last_name":"Calhau","full_name":"Calhau, João"},{"full_name":"Sobral, David","last_name":"Sobral","first_name":"David"},{"full_name":"Santos, Sérgio","first_name":"Sérgio","last_name":"Santos"},{"orcid":"0000-0003-2871-127X","first_name":"Jorryt J","last_name":"Matthee","id":"7439a258-f3c0-11ec-9501-9df22fe06720","full_name":"Matthee, Jorryt J"},{"full_name":"Paulino-Afonso, Ana","first_name":"Ana","last_name":"Paulino-Afonso"},{"first_name":"Andra","last_name":"Stroe","full_name":"Stroe, Andra"},{"full_name":"Simmons, Brooke","last_name":"Simmons","first_name":"Brooke"},{"full_name":"Barlow-Hall, Cassandra","last_name":"Barlow-Hall","first_name":"Cassandra"},{"full_name":"Adams, Benjamin","last_name":"Adams","first_name":"Benjamin"}],"doi":"10.1093/mnras/staa476","page":"3341-3362","_id":"11539","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"citation":{"mla":"Calhau, João, et al. “The X-Ray and Radio Activity of Typical and Luminous Ly α Emitters from z ∼ 2 to z ∼ 6: Evidence for a Diverse, Evolving Population.” <i>Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society</i>, vol. 493, no. 3, Oxford University Press, 2020, pp. 3341–62, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa476\">10.1093/mnras/staa476</a>.","ieee":"J. Calhau <i>et al.</i>, “The X-ray and radio activity of typical and luminous Ly α emitters from z ∼ 2 to z ∼ 6: Evidence for a diverse, evolving population,” <i>Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society</i>, vol. 493, no. 3. Oxford University Press, pp. 3341–3362, 2020.","ama":"Calhau J, Sobral D, Santos S, et al. The X-ray and radio activity of typical and luminous Ly α emitters from z ∼ 2 to z ∼ 6: Evidence for a diverse, evolving population. <i>Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society</i>. 2020;493(3):3341-3362. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa476\">10.1093/mnras/staa476</a>","ista":"Calhau J, Sobral D, Santos S, Matthee JJ, Paulino-Afonso A, Stroe A, Simmons B, Barlow-Hall C, Adams B. 2020. The X-ray and radio activity of typical and luminous Ly α emitters from z ∼ 2 to z ∼ 6: Evidence for a diverse, evolving population. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 493(3), 3341–3362.","apa":"Calhau, J., Sobral, D., Santos, S., Matthee, J. J., Paulino-Afonso, A., Stroe, A., … Adams, B. (2020). The X-ray and radio activity of typical and luminous Ly α emitters from z ∼ 2 to z ∼ 6: Evidence for a diverse, evolving population. <i>Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society</i>. Oxford University Press. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa476\">https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa476</a>","chicago":"Calhau, João, David Sobral, Sérgio Santos, Jorryt J Matthee, Ana Paulino-Afonso, Andra Stroe, Brooke Simmons, Cassandra Barlow-Hall, and Benjamin Adams. “The X-Ray and Radio Activity of Typical and Luminous Ly α Emitters from z ∼ 2 to z ∼ 6: Evidence for a Diverse, Evolving Population.” <i>Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society</i>. Oxford University Press, 2020. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa476\">https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa476</a>.","short":"J. Calhau, D. Sobral, S. Santos, J.J. Matthee, A. Paulino-Afonso, A. Stroe, B. Simmons, C. Barlow-Hall, B. Adams, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 493 (2020) 3341–3362."},"article_type":"original"}