Abstract
Understanding galaxy formation and evolution requires studying the interplay
between the growth of galaxies and the growth of their black holes across
cosmic time. Here we explore a sample of Ha-selected star-forming galaxies from
the HiZELS survey and use the wealth of multi-wavelength data in the COSMOS
field (X-rays, far-infrared and radio) to study the relative growth rates
between typical galaxies and their central supermassive black holes, from
z=2.23 to z=0. Typical star-forming galaxies at z~1-2 have black hole accretion
rates (BHARs) of 0.001-0.01 Msun/yr and star formation rates (SFRs) of ~10-40
Msun/yr, and thus grow their stellar mass much quicker than their black hole
mass (~3.3 orders of magnitude faster). However, ~3% of the sample (the sources
detected directly in the X-rays) show a significantly quicker growth of the
black hole mass (up to 1.5 orders of magnitude quicker growth than the typical
sources). BHARs fall from z=2.23 to z=0, with the decline resembling that of
star formation rate density or the typical SFR. We find that the average black
hole to galaxy growth (BHAR/SFR) is approximately constant for star-forming
galaxies in the last 11 Gyrs. The relatively constant BHAR/SFR suggests that
these two quantities evolve equivalently through cosmic time and with
practically no delay between the two.
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