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Synchronized Co-evolution between Supermassive Black Holes and Galaxies Over the Last Seven Billion Years as Revealed by the Hyper Suprime-Cam

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(2021)cite arxiv:2109.02751Comment: 17 pages, 6 figures, accepted by ApJ.

Abstract

We measure the evolution of the $M_BH-M_*$ relation using 584 uniformly-selected SDSS quasars at $0.2<z<0.8$. The black-hole masses ($M_\rm BH$) are derived from the single-epoch virial mass estimator using the H$\beta$ emission line, and span the range $7.0<log\,M_\rm BH/M_ødot<9.5$. The host-galaxy stellar masses ($M_*$), which cover the interval $10.0<log\,M_* / M_<11.5$, are determined by performing two-dimensional quasar-host decomposition of the Hyper Suprime-Cam images and spectral energy distribution fitting. To quantify sample-selection biases and measurement uncertainties on the mass terms, a mock quasar sample is constructed to jointly constrain the redshift evolution of the $M_BH-M_*$ relation and its intrinsic scatter ($\sigma_\mu$) through forward modeling. We find that the level of evolution is degenerate with $\sigma_\mu$, such that both positive mild evolution (i.e, $M_BH/M_*$ increases with redshift) with a small $\sigma_\mu$, and negative mild evolution with a larger $\sigma_\mu$ are consistent with our data. The posterior distribution of $\sigma_\mu$ enables us to put a strong constraint on the intrinsic scatter of the $M_BH-M_*$ relation, which has a best inference of $0.25_-0.04^+0.03$ dex, consistent with the local value. The redshift evolution of the $M_BH-M_*$ relation relative to the local relation is constrained to be $(1+z)^0.12_-0.27^+0.28$, in agreement with no significant evolution since $z\sim0.8$. The tight and non-evolving $M_\rm BH-M_*$ relation is suggestive of a coupling through AGN feedback or/and a common gas supply at work, thus restricting the mass ratio of galaxies and their black holes to a limited range. Given the considerable stellar disk component, the $M_BH-M_bulge$ relation may evolve as previously seen at higher redshifts.

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