Cosmic X-ray surveys of distant active galaxies: The demographics, physics, and ecology of growing supermassive black holes

WN Brandt, DM Alexander - The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2015 - Springer
We review results from cosmic X-ray surveys of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) over the past
≈ 15≈ 15 years that have dramatically improved our understanding of growing …

The bolometric quasar luminosity function at z = 0–7

X Shen, PF Hopkins… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
In this paper, we provide updated constraints on the bolometric quasar luminosity function
(QLF) from z= 0 to z= 7. The constraints are based on an observational compilation that …

[HTML][HTML] AGN wind scaling relations and the co-evolution of black holes and galaxies

F Fiore, C Feruglio, F Shankar, M Bischetti… - Astronomy & …, 2017 - aanda.org
Context. Feedback from accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs) is often identified as
the main mechanism responsible for regulating star formation in active galactic nucleus …

CANDELS: the cosmic assembly near-infrared deep extragalactic legacy survey

NA Grogin, DD Kocevski, SM Faber… - The Astrophysical …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT The Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey
(CANDELS) is designed to document the first third of galactic evolution, over the …

Evolution of the AGN UV luminosity function from redshift 7.5

G Kulkarni, G Worseck… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Determinations of the ultraviolet (UV) luminosity function of active galactic nuclei (AGN) at
high redshifts are important for constraining the AGN contribution to reionization and …

The evolution of the X-ray luminosity functions of unabsorbed and absorbed AGNs out to z∼ 5

J Aird, AL Coil, A Georgakakis, K Nandra… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We present new measurements of the evolution of the X-ray luminosity functions (XLFs) of
unabsorbed and absorbed active galactic nuclei (AGNs) out to z∼ 5. We construct samples …

Cosmological simulations of black hole growth: AGN luminosities and downsizing

M Hirschmann, K Dolag, A Saro… - Monthly Notices of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
In this study, we present a detailed, statistical analysis of black hole growth and the evolution
of active galactic nuclei (AGN) using cosmological hydrodynamic simulations run down to z …

Obscuration-dependent evolution of active galactic nuclei

J Buchner, A Georgakakis, K Nandra… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We aim to constrain the evolution of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) as a function of
obscuration using an X-ray-selected sample of∼ 2000 AGNs from a multi-tiered survey …

Toward the standard population synthesis model of the x-ray background: Evolution of X-ray luminosity and absorption functions of active galactic nuclei including …

Y Ueda, M Akiyama, G Hasinger, T Miyaji… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the most up to date X-ray luminosity function (XLF) and absorption function of
active galactic nuclei (AGNs) over the redshift range from 0 to 5, utilizing the largest, highly …

The evolution of the hard X-ray luminosity function of AGN

J Aird, K Nandra, ES Laird… - Monthly Notices of …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
We present new observational determinations of the evolution of the 2–10 keV X-ray
luminosity function (XLF) of active galactic nuclei (AGN). We utilize data from a number of …