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Volume 649, May 2021
Article Number L9
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Section Letters to the Editor
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202140791
Published online 07 May 2021

© ESO 2021

1. Introduction

Emitting hundreds to thousands of radio flux units (janskys), active galaxies and active galactic nuclei (AGN) were originally discovered through their luminous radio emission. It was, however, realized early on that radio loudness in active galaxies is the exception rather than the rule. For instance, many optically identified quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) have been reported (Sandage 1965) to show no sign of radio emission. Following decades of research into the nature of this radio-quiet QSO population, a recent ultra-deep study by Kellermann et al. (2016) suggested that the 6 GHz radio luminosity function of optically selected low-redshift Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) QSOs primarily comprises two components. The first is the AGN, jet-driven component that smoothly covers the (6 GHz) radio luminosity range from about 1027 down to 1023 W Hz−1. The second, which is prominently present in the sample, is the QSO host galaxy, starburst-driven radio emission that covers the 1021 − 1023 W Hz−1 range. The latter emission is indicative of the formation of a few to several tens of solar-mass stars per year. The host galaxy is responsible for the dominant radio emission component in approximately 80% of the sample: These objects make up the so-called radio-quiet QSO population. Lacking sufficient angular resolution, the standard connected interferometers, such as the Very Large Array (VLA) and the now-operational Square Kilometre Array (SKA) precursors, are unable to quantify any low-level AGN-driven radio emission in these radio-quiet objects, that is to say, jet-driven radio emission in the range 1021 − 1022 W Hz−1. For nearby low-luminosity AGN, that decomposition can successfully be made by exploiting the radio–far-infrared (FIR) correlation (e.g., Wilson 1988; Barthel 2006), but the multi-faceted physical origin of the radio emission in the radio-quiet AGN population is still a matter of debate (Panessa et al. 2019). Here we examine these extragalactic radio populations in more detail.

The extragalactic radio sky is currently studied down to microjansky depths (e.g., Smolčić et al. 2017; Owen 2018; Mauch et al. 2020). The sky surface density of the ultra-luminous Third Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources (3C) objects is about one per 10 × 10 degrees. These radio sources, having projected dimensions up to hundreds of kiloparsecs, reach radio luminosities of up to 1028 W Hz−1 (at 1.4 GHz) at redshifts, z, of up to 2.8. They are all identified with powerful AGN: radio galaxies and quasars. Another well-known radio survey, the NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS; Condon et al. 1998), goes about a factor of a thousand deeper, to the millijansky regime, and shows a source surface density of about one per 10′×10′, with sources with radio luminosities down to about 1023 W Hz−1. It is thought that the large majority of these radio sources are AGN-driven. That situation changes when we go down another factor of a hundred in depth. At arcsecond angular resolutions, the radio source surface density at the 10 μJy level is 2−4 per square arcmin. Slightly resolved starburst-driven radio sources, displaying alignment with their host galaxies and producing 1021 − 1023 W Hz−1, outnumber the AGN-driven objects at that level (e.g., Muxlow et al. 2005; Ibar et al. 2008; Padovani et al. 2009; Bonzini et al. 2013; Barger et al. 2015, 2017; Owen 2018; Ceraj et al. 2018; Mauch et al. 2020). This starburst dominance is also clearly seen as a submillijansky upturn in the radio source counts (Smolčić et al. 2017), as well as in the ultra-deep radio survey of the general QSO population, as previously discussed. Hence, identifying AGN in the submillijansky radio population is not straightforward: They may occur at a low level in hybrid systems or be absent.

Earlier, our team addressed these issues using the unique capacities of very long baseline interferometry (VLBI). Radcliffe et al. (2018) carried out ultra-deep wide-field VLBI in the GOODS-N (HDF-N) field and reported the identification of 31 AGN in the redshift range 0.11−3.44 among hundreds of radio sources in that well-studied field. The Radcliffe et al. (2021) follow-up study describes the nature of the host galaxies of the AGN and hybrid AGN–starburst systems: (1) AGN-dominated hybrid systems with efficient accretion, (2) intermediate redshift early-type hosts with inefficient AGN accretion, and (3) very dusty hybrid systems at high redshift, such as the well-known submillimeter source GN16.

Another important result of the Radcliffe et al. (2021) study is that about one-third of the VLBI AGN remain undetected in the deep 2 Ms 0.5−7 keV Chandra X-ray observations (Xue et al. 2016). That fraction is in rough agreement with the fractional occurrence – or, more accurately, the absence – of X-ray emission in infrared-selected QSOs, as reported by Del Moro et al. (2016) and Mateos et al. (2017). Confirming the Padovani (2016) results, these X-ray-deficient AGN occur in both distant passive, inefficiently accreting systems and in very dusty host galaxies, which renders them weak or Compton-thick. The recent multiwavelength study by Lambrides et al. (2020) underlined the incompleteness of AGN X-ray studies.

However, while incomplete for certain AGN, X-ray surveys still yield the highest AGN1 surface density, of about 7 per square arcmin (Luo et al. 2017). As reviewed by Brandt & Alexander (2015), X-ray surveys have been of the utmost importance in AGN research, but the enigmatic aspect of the large X-ray surface density has not yet been resolved: It remains unclear what the nature of the luminous X-ray AGN without detectable radio emission is. The issue is nicely illustrated by the detection statistics. Barger et al. (2017) find that the faint radio and deep Chandra X-ray populations are two disjunct populations, with only a certain level of overlap. Of the 445 1.4 GHz radio sources in the central 124 square arcmin of GOODS-N (AGN, starbursts, and mixed systems), 31% have X-ray counterparts (within ) and 69% have no X-ray counterparts. Of the GOODS-N X-ray sources down to f0.5−2 keV ≈ 1.5 × 10−17 erg cm−2 s−1, only 51% are associated with a (> 11.5 μJy) radio source. We focus here on the other half of the X-ray AGN – those that remain undetected in the radio.

2. Methods and results: Radio-silent AGN

To investigate the nature of the ultra-weak (or absent) radio emission of these X-ray-bright sources, we carried out stacking techniques in our database for GOODS-N. We took advantage of the Owen (2018) ultra-deep (1.8 μJy beam−1) 1−2 GHz VLA observations, obtained as part of the e-MERGE survey, that have a resolution of approximately (Muxlow et al. 2020). There are 334 non-stellar sources in the 2 Ms Chandra GOODS-N catalog with positional accuracy better than (Xue et al. 2016) that are also located within the Spitzer-Multiband Imaging Photometer (MIPS) 24 μm field of view. Of these, 168 sources (50.3%) have no VLA radio counterparts above a mean five-sigma detection threshold of 10 μJy beam−1, within a search radius. This detection fraction is entirely consistent with the results of Barger et al. (2017). To isolate a radio-silent population, we further filtered these 168 non-detections using a median absolute deviation (MAD) outlier filter (Iglewicz & Hoaglin 1993). For each pixel, xi, in each 80 × 80 pixel radio image, we computed the modified Z-score, Mi, using

(1)

where MAD = median and is the median of all the pixels in the image. Pixels were defined as outliers if |Mi| > 3, and a source image was rejected if there was an outlier pixel within 1.5 times the size of the VLA restoring beam (∼2″) of the X-ray position. This technique removed 78 sources with probable VLA counterparts with S/N of 3−5, that is to say, peak brightness values of 6−10 μJy beam−1. Finally, we excluded two sources that are behind extended radio emission from an FR-I radio galaxy. This yields a final sample of 88 X-ray sources (with known redshifts), or 26.3% of the original sample, that have a low probability of a radio counterpart. The redshift range of this sample is 0.079−5.186, with a mean value of 1.54.

For each of these 88 X-ray sources, an 80 × 80 pixel (28″ × 28″) cutout centred on the X-ray position was excised. These images were aligned and a median and a weighted mean stack (Figs. 1a,b) were performed on a pixel-by-pixel basis. For the weighted mean stack, we added another MAD filter to identify and remove nearby sources. The weights used per image were proportional to the inverse square of the local rms noise. To ensure that the stacking routine was robust, we performed a null test. For the same number of stacks, we added an additional random term (between −15″ and +15″) to the X-ray positions, and, as Fig. 1c shows, the stacking signal ceased to exist.

thumbnail Fig. 1.

Stacking results for 88 objects with X-ray luminosities between 1.9 × 1039 and 4.1 × 1044 erg s−1. The images measure 28″ × 28″, with an angular resolution of ∼2″.

The median and weighted mean stacks in Fig. 1 clearly show significant radio emission, with a S/N greater than 10. They correspond to just over two times the noise in the individual images, and the flux density of the median stack is approximately 12% higher than that of the mean stack. While these are within the error bounds, it implies that the underlying distribution is slightly skewed: There must be more stronger radio sources than weaker ones.

We therefore performed additional stacks, binning the data into two X-ray luminosity groups (which are essentially also redshift groups). As shown in Table 1, the radio flux density changes only mildly with X-ray luminosity and corresponds to radio powers around 1021 − 1022 W Hz−1. This is in the star-formation-dominated luminosity regime (e.g., Smolčić et al. 2017). To test whether the radio emission in the stacks indeed originates from star formation, we used the Spitzer MIPS 24 μm flux to compute q24 parameter values in the FIR-radio diagnostic (e.g., Appleton et al. 2004; Ibar et al. 2008). Nearly all sources (84%) have 24 μm counterparts with flux densities between 20 and 80 μJy, with around 10% of sources in the range 100−300 μJy. These excess sources affect the mean flux density of this distribution, so we instead used the median 24 μm values. In order to establish these values for each X-ray luminosity bin, we had to take the non-detections into account. We employed left-censored survival analysis, using a Kaplan-Meier estimator to estimate the median and 95% confidence intervals of the distribution. The results, including the inferred values of radio luminosity and star-formation rates (SFRs), are shown in Table 1.

Table 1.

Stacking results for two LX groups of the 88 radio-undetected objects.

As judged from Table 1, the q24 parameter is in the middle of the star-formation-dominated regime (0.2 < q24 < 1.5), both at low and high X-ray luminosities; within the errors, they are the same. We tested the sensitivity to redshift of the median q24 values for stacks in different redshift intervals and found no effect. We observe no sign of any AGN-driven radio excess. Recalling the cosmologically remarkable stable q24 parameter as measured for star-forming galaxies over a wide range of redshift by Appleton et al. (2004), we therefore suggest that star formation, with inferred rates of a few to some tens of solar masses (M⊙) per year, is responsible for (the bulk of) the radio emission of the (sub)microjansky population of X-ray-selected AGN. These objects are “non-jetted” AGN in normal star-forming galaxies. We caution nevertheless that we cannot exclude a small level of AGN emission in the radio or mid-IR bands: The SFR estimates in the last column of Table 1 must be considered as upper limits.

Hereafter, defining the non-jetted AGN class as having Ljet of at most 10% of Lstack (L1.5 GHz), which translates into < 3 × 1020 W Hz−1 at z = 0.8 or < 7 × 1021 W Hz−1 at z = 2.2, we infer that any AGN-driven (or better, jet-driven) radio emission must amount to less than about a few times 1021 W Hz−1. This represents a factor of about seven orders of magnitude in comparison with the most luminous radio-loud AGN. Given that the q24 values are seen not to change with X-ray luminosity (redshift), whereas the radio luminosities do, we measure higher SFRs at higher redshift in these AGN hosts – a well-known fact for non-active galaxies (e.g., Whitaker et al. 2012) and for distant radio-loud 3CR objects (Podigachoski et al. 2015).

Figure 2 shows the distribution of the q24 values for the 78 individually detected radio sources in the 3−5 sigma set and the 166 objects in the > 5 sigma set together with the two stack values for the radio-undetected X-ray AGN. The gray band indicates the star-formation-dominated regime; the area under it is commonly known as the radio-excess region. As seen from Table 1, the mean q24 value for the stacked objects is 0.99. The distributions of the q24 values for the > 5 sigma and the 3-5 sigma sets are statistically indistinguishable, but the q24 values are significantly lower: The combined mean value is 0.73. It is clear that the range of 10 μJy−1 μJy marks the transition of jet-dominated to star-formation-dominated X-ray sources: At this point, any radio emission is completely dominated by star-formation-related radio processes. Additionally, the radio emission of substantial fractions of the > 5 sigma and 3−5 sigma sets must be largely star-formation-driven. It is noteworthy that this microjansky transition does not come as a surprise since the associated SFRs are entirely as expected (Whitaker et al. 2012). This result recalls earlier work by Richards et al. (2007): From considerably shallower radio data, they conclude that a large fraction of X-ray AGN appear as starbursts when using radio diagnostics. The Ljet upper limits mentioned above are in the range of the faint unresolved radio cores observed (Ho 2008) in low-luminosity AGN2 in the local Universe. We conclude that at least one-quarter (the stacked set) but probably more like half of the extragalactic X-ray population has no, or totally insignificant, relativistic radio jets with associated AGN-driven radio emission. Following an earlier proposal (Padovani 2017), we classify the radio-silent AGN as non-jetted AGN. This type of object has an accretion disk and a hot corona, and hence luminous X-ray emission, but simply does not form radio jets of any significance.

thumbnail Fig. 2.

FIR/radio ratio, q24, as a function of the X-ray luminosity for three groups of X-ray AGN: > 5 sigma VLA detections (black), 3−5 sigma VLA detections (blue), and radio-undetected (red); the normalized frequency distributions appear at the right. The gray bar represents the range of q24 between redshifts of 0 ≤ z ≤ 3 for five star-forming galaxy templates (data acquired from Del Moro et al. 2013).

3. Discussion: The AGN radio source mechanism

We proceeded by examining the occurrence of non-jetted AGN in relation to their AGN strength. In Fig. 3 we present histograms of the luminosities of three groups of X-ray-selected objects: (1) 166 objects in excess of 10 μJy (which are the jet-dominated but still hybrid starburst-AGN group); (2) 78 objects that have radio emission in the 5−10 μJy range (i.e., the hybrid starburst-AGN group); and (3) the 88 objects without VLA radio emission (i.e., the [stack] radio-silent group).

thumbnail Fig. 3.

Histograms of LX relative frequency for three radio groups: jet-dominated (black), mixed systems (blue), and non-jetted (red).

Kolmogorov–Smirnov (K-S) tests indicate that these distributions, which cover six orders of magnitude in X-ray luminosity, are drawn from the same population, at 99% confidence. This also reflects the fact that the redshift distributions of the three samples are virtually identical. We therefore conclude that X-ray AGN may, or may not, develop jets producing significant radio emission, the strength of which is unrelated to the X-ray strength3. AGN-driven radio emission – jets, on parsec to hundreds of kiloparsec scales, plus the large-scale radio lobes that they feed – must be simply a special mechanism that is unrelated to the strength of the central supermassive black hole accretion as manifested in its emission at other wavelengths. We stress, however, that some degree of correlation between AGN jet strength and X-ray strength, as a function of black hole accretion efficiency, is likely. This is illustrated, for instance, by the fact that the X-ray luminosities of the ultra-powerful, efficiently accreting 3C sources reach 1046 erg s−1 (Wilkes et al. 2013), while their histogram shape is similar to those in Fig. 3. We furthermore conclude that the level of host starburst contamination at low X-ray luminosities must be similar for the three groups (and we recall the fact that star-forming galaxies have been reported by Barger et al. 2017 to display correlated radio and X-ray luminosities, up to LX ≈ 1042 erg s−1). X-ray-emitting AGN appear to be hardly affected by the presence or the strength of jet-driven radio emission: The two mechanisms are unrelated. Most interestingly, the distributions of the X-ray spectral slopes for the three groups are not exactly the same. Figure 4 shows the effective X-ray photon indices. The radio-silent group peaks at Γ = 1.4 and shows only a modest tail toward harder photon indices. This is in contrast to the radio-quiet group and particularly the radio-loud group, as confirmed with K-S tests. They show pronounced tails of hard photon indices. Such hard indices are generally attributed to the effect of radio jets (Wilkes & Elvis 1987; Zhu et al. 2020), or they could indicate different host interstellar medium (absorption) properties (Brandt & Alexander 2015), which will clearly be an issue for further study.

thumbnail Fig. 4.

Histograms of Γ relative frequency for three radio groups: jet-dominated (black), mixed systems (blue), and non-jetted (red).

Our findings are obviously relevant for the local AGN picture, where low-luminosity AGN often do not have relativistic radio jets (Ho 2008; Padovani 2017), and, as mentioned earlier, they provide strong support for the jetted versus non-jetted scenario (Bonzini et al. 2015; Padovani 2017). Our presented results have interesting implications. Firstly, the positive stacking signal suggests that many X-ray AGN will have radio counterparts in the nanojansky sensitivity surveys that will be provided by the SKA and next-generation Very Large Array. Secondly, deeper, more sensitive VLBI observations would be needed to discover radio jets in those objects at the level below 1021 W Hz−1. Future surveys will require both deep X-ray and radio observations (subarcsecond as well as milliarcsecond resolution) in order to separate the jetted from the non-jetted AGN and to characterize the hybrid AGN-starburst systems. Following up on Garofalo (2019) and Zhu et al. (2020), a multispectral approach will be crucial to understanding the conditions under which jets will, or will not, develop. Finally, ultra-deep optical and infrared observations will be needed to investigate the possible occurrence of non-jetted Compton-thick AGN.

4. Conclusions

At the microjansky level, radio surveys run into many star-forming galaxies with SFRs of a few to a few tens of solar masses per year; AGN-driven jets contribute negligible amounts of radio emission in these objects. In cases where these jet contributions are non-negligible, a radio excess is apparent, classifying these objects as radio-loud AGN. However, X-ray AGN without radio jets also exist over a wide range of X-ray luminosities. They represent at least one-quarter and probably half of the extragalactic X-ray population. We have identified their nature: They are coreless and jet-less (or non-jetted) accretors in massive star-forming galaxies, in which all or virtually all radio emission draws from star-formation-related processes in the AGN host galaxy. Whereas their host galaxies generate radio emission, their AGN contribute negligibly – they are radio-silent.

1

Defined primarily via their wideband X-ray luminosity (at known redshift): LX > 3 × 1042 erg s−1, or > 3 × 1035 W. This is not a robust lower limit since (rare) luminous distant starburst galaxies are known to produce ∼1043 erg s−1 (Barger et al. 2017). This surface density should be compared to that of faint galaxies, which is ∼1700 per square arcmin, as inferred for the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (Beckwith et al. 2006).

2

But still orders of magnitude more luminous than the ultra-compact radio nucleus in the Galactic Center, Sgr A* (Genzel et al. 2010).

3

We omit the rare radio-loud blazar class, in which Doppler-boosted jet emission is responsible for strong, variable, correlated emission at all wavelengths, from the present discussion.

Acknowledgments

The GOODS-N radio sky was addressed in the 2019 PhD thesis work of author Radcliffe, carried out with the team of co-authors. He and co-author Barthel subsequently examined the radio-invisible population in that field. Barthel wrote the first version of the Article, to which Radcliffe added discussion and diagrams, and to which the other co-authors contributed in its final stage. Barthel and Radcliffe acknowledge useful discussions with Karina Caputi, Luis Ho, Joanna Kuraszkiewicz, Paolo Padovani, and Belinda Wilkes. A useful referee report is also acknowledged. This research made use of Astropy, a community-developed core Python package for Astronomy (Astropy Collaboration 2013, 2018). It has received funding from the European Commission Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007–2013) under grant agreement No 283393 (RadioNet3). J.F.R. acknowledges the Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC), an Ubbo Emmius scholarship from the University of Groningen, and the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) whose funding contributed to this research.

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All Tables

Table 1.

Stacking results for two LX groups of the 88 radio-undetected objects.

In the text

All Figures

thumbnail Fig. 1.

Stacking results for 88 objects with X-ray luminosities between 1.9 × 1039 and 4.1 × 1044 erg s−1. The images measure 28″ × 28″, with an angular resolution of ∼2″.
In the text
thumbnail Fig. 2.

FIR/radio ratio, q24, as a function of the X-ray luminosity for three groups of X-ray AGN: > 5 sigma VLA detections (black), 3−5 sigma VLA detections (blue), and radio-undetected (red); the normalized frequency distributions appear at the right. The gray bar represents the range of q24 between redshifts of 0 ≤ z ≤ 3 for five star-forming galaxy templates (data acquired from Del Moro et al. 2013).
In the text
thumbnail Fig. 3.

Histograms of LX relative frequency for three radio groups: jet-dominated (black), mixed systems (blue), and non-jetted (red).
In the text
thumbnail Fig. 4.

Histograms of Γ relative frequency for three radio groups: jet-dominated (black), mixed systems (blue), and non-jetted (red).
In the text

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